Posted: 8/16/2007 6:19:10 PM EDT
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For some reason my Springfield GI keeps flinging brass up and over, directly at my forehead. Do I need a lighter spring? My Desert Warrior seems perfect. No problems at all. It has a lowered and flared ejection port, where the GI doesn't. Is this my problem. The GI is really accurate, but after a little while the brass in the forehead starts to make me flinch. I almost traded it for a HK USP tonight. |
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The M1911 was designed with trench use in mind and threw the brass straight up instead of over the shoulder where your neighbor would be standing beside you. The M1911A1 had a collection of improvements over the M1911, but lowering and flaring the ejection port isn't one of them. Changing the recoil spring is one way to modify the flight path of the brass, but generally it modifies the distance that it's thrown, not necessarily the direction. Depending on how the brass hits you, the recoil spring change may/may not do anything to help. It also depends on what you are shooting and how much poundage you have to play with. I wouldn't drop below 15 pounds on factory ammo, and prefer 16.5. The other option you have to work with is tuning the extractor. |
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Installing a longer ejector may help and would not alter the looks of the weapon. But it may increase the issues with the brass impacting the higher edge of the ejection port on the GI spec slide. Relieving the ejection port is nice in this regard and it also prvents the great big dent in the case mouth on th fired brass - but then it no longer has the classic GI looks. So your best bet is to just get a surplus steel pot and wear it - as John Browning intended when shooting your GI 1911. 
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