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I've become pretty comfortable smithing my Rock Island GI 1911. So I replaced a few things. New skeletonized hammer, new beavertail. Nice upgrade! Going into this with eyes wide open, I figured there'd be some tuning to follow. Sure enough the gun runs fine but for an annoying sticky (gritty)...

Live and learn... My RIA GI HC has gobbled up everything I fed it until now. Berry's 185 .45 Auto FP makes her gag! Finally tuned this round to very small tollerences and got some decent results: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/17PW2Xw6-1cVoRNKWAs9J9jLsiN5vT9Gv0AZy2cELw-Q/edit?usp=drivesdk

So excited to get this gun after 10 long days (California) waiting for it. I took it to the range, loaded up some target ammo, safety off, point, press, bang. To my surprise there were 2 holes in the target even though it sounded like one shot. Hmmm... Pulled the trigger again. One new hole...