Originally Posted by
Char-Gar
I have had those shock buffers batter badly and tie up the pistol. I think I still have a dozen or so around here somewhere.
I am not a hot load fan either. About 1963 I was shooting some hot 200 grain SWC over a big dose of Unique in a Remington-Rand 1911A1 when the firing pin stop came out the the firing pin jump out as well. I picked up the parts out of the dirt, wiped them off, reinstalled them and continued shooting, but not with the hot loads. I suppose a tightly fitted stop might not do that, but I was cured.
Folks begin to try the RCBS Cowboy bullet shortly after it came out in the 1911 pistol with good results. Shortly we did a special order Lee six hole slightly modified version called the 45 BCM. I still have a never used on sitting on my shop shelf. Since then several mold maker like Accurate have produced similar bullets.