Today I traded into a new Ruger SR1911, 9mm. Everything is right and tight in all the right places. The trigger was super slick, and after a short takeup, broke consistently at around#2! It has the commander size frame, bobbed hammer and beavertail safety, with an aluminum frame, 3dot sights.
Now for the shooting, I could only get 7 rounds in one clip, the other took all 9 without a hitch. I put a box up against my fence, paced off a little over 17 yds, and took aim at a USPS blue sticker, about 1 1/2 inches square. I did not see the first two shots so I walked up to the target, and saw them touching each other, right in the center of the blue box! I walked back, shot 2 more, each touching a corner of the blue sticker, with 5 round left, I only had2 rounds out of the blue sticker, one high, and one low, both within half an inch of the sticker. I was pretty impressed, because honestly, my handgun shooting has been off since having a hip replaced 8 weeks ago, but have been shooting one almost daily last 3 weeks. I put the clip in with 7 rounds and shot a bullet hole off to itself and started shooting at the hole, aim small, miss small. Four of the rounds cut a hole about an inch long, and the other3 were right besides it. The magazine did not catch on the last shot, several times. I then reloaded both clips, and picked out some cow patties in the field at 100yds, give or take. Now these were big flops, about a foot long and 5-6 inches tall. On the first shot, I held a little high, and shot over, the second one did the same, but the next four all went into it, and the last and the last 3 all cut the edge, one side or the other. Now this is shooting off hand,but as I said before, I shoot at this distance a lot, have a 150 yd range out of my carport. I put the clip in that would only take 7, and hit another cow flop, a little smaller, 5 out of 7, and those two were probably because I was getting a little excited about how this pistol shot, it was making me look good. Then the cows came over to see what was going on with their flops exploding, and I had to stop shooting. I am well impressed with this firearm, and after cleaning it, I called Ruger to complain about the mag, and they stated they would send me a new one out, with a labeled envelope to send the old one back, postage pre paid. Now that is good service, even though it sucked to have a new mag and pistol not function correctly, or should I say the mag only because the pistol never hiccupped. I was shooting 115gr fmj Federals, the 100 round box you can get at wally world, but I will soon be loading some Lee 124gr tumble lube slugs and see how they do. Just thought I would share.
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