Posted: 4/18/2008 12:15:39 AM EDT
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How do they shoot? What is your exp with them? What good mods are there to make them better? Steve |
I want one so bad.
I had an XSE Gub'mint in SS several years ago. I loved that gun, and had many great range sessins with it. I shot the snot out of it. It had one failure, with a 200gr+P Speer GDHP I had in a sorta "mixed ammo box". Other than that, flawless. And we're talking 3K+ in the "rounds downrange" dept. If I could find a decent trade on my semi-custom Colt Gub'mint, I would either go the blues XSE gub'mint you went with, or an SA MC Operator. |
| My new XSE Combat Commander struggled with fail to feed issues for the first 200 rounds. Maybe 10-15 during the first range session, then loosened up. About 400 rounds and the problem seems to have stopped. The biggest disappointment with it is that it will not feed the Corbon DPX hollowpoints, usually the first round off the fresh mag nosedives. It'll feed Hydra shocks just fine for me so that's what I carry in it. I also did not like the ambi safety and had an Ed Brown single sided safety installed and put a set of the thin grips like Colt put on the Gunsite models on it. I really like it now. Locktite your rear sight set screw now before it comes loose. |
That is what mine looks like. I had the grub screw come loose on the rear sight. A little loctite fixed that. I also had a broken ambi safety. It loosened and broke within 100 rounds. I have a new ambi safety. The right side is still a tiny bit loose, as in it wiggles up and down about 1/2 a mm. We'll see how it does. |
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Some of the Georgia Hometown forum guys have them and like them a lot. One odd problem came up - The Jarvis threaded barrels we use for 5" Govt suppressor demos fits every 1911 slide tried except the Colt XSEs. We tried it on several examples, the issue is the width of the hood above the breach. I don't understand why they'd change this dimension. fyi Allen |
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I have a lightly customized Commander that I bought well-used. I love it. Accurate and reliable, no parts issues. I've carried it a lot and it's stil in rotation. List of mods that I can detect: Dehorn Stippling front & backstrap, flat MSH Wilson Nite-Eyes sights Trigger job Brown beavertail, safety, and hammer FLGR  
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Beautiful |