Taurus 1911

[Guest benchpresspower]

I have a Taurus 1911 and having feeding problems with it. How much (ball park figure) do you think I would be paying a gunsmith, say at Guns And Leather to look it over and have the problem fixed?

[Guest truthsayer]

Is it just not feeding JHPs well? Does it act the same with all of your mags?

[Guest benchpresspower]

Yep. I got some of the Taurus copper bullets last xmas, I fired one and it jammed on the next one. Does the same with Hornady's and Winchesters. It will do this with all mags, the two factory ones and a couple aftermarket ones. I recall someone saying that 1911's have issues with hollowpoints and that the feeding ramp needs to be polished. I'm no gunsmith so I don't know what I need to do.

[Guest Dragonman]

Try polishing the feed ramp yet?

[Punisher84]

How many rounds do you have through it of regular ball ammo?

[Guest benchpresspower]

Try polishing the feed ramp yet?

Not yet, I don't have anything to polish it with, suggestions?

[Guest benchpresspower]

How many rounds do you have through it of regular ball ammo?

At least 400, never had a jam with ball ammo.

[Guest truthsayer]

At least 400, never had a jam with ball ammo.

185gr Remington Golden Sabre is a great round for the Taurus 1911. Halfpint hooked me on those when I had some feeding problems with other JHPs. I'd run a couple of mags through it just to be sure, but that load along with a couple of Wilson Combat mags should fix your problem. That's how I ran my Taurus all winter.

[Punisher84]

At least 400, never had a jam with ball ammo.

I had the same issue with my RIA 1911 and it is clearing up now around 500 rounds. Use the WC mags like Truthsayer suggested and maybe only load 6 or 7 rounds. See if that helps for awhile.

[Guest benchpresspower]

Thanks guys, I shall give it shot (no pun intended)