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I am learning new stuff about the platform all the time. I now know there would need to be material removed for the beaver tail to fit. I don't know why most parts have to be fit, what about the basic design makes this so?
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Quote History Originally Posted By rookie421:I am learning new stuff about the platform all the time. I now know there would need to be material removed for the beaver tail to fit. I don't know why most parts have to be fit, what about the basic design makes this so?
Shortest answer:It was designed in the early 1900s, when materials were expensive but labor was cheap
Today it's the opposite, and we have over 100 years of manufacturing experience, gun designs, new manufacturing machinery, etc.
The modern platforms have us spoiled.
Glocks go together more like legos, a modern 1911, like a watch.
It's not just Q/C and tolerances, is the design itself.
A lot of the 1911's parts have to fit together, and there are differences from gun maker to gun maker, and even gun to gun.
(And let's be real, a lot of instructors say when they see malfunctioning glocks? They're usually not a stock gun. Once the stock parts are put back in and the add ons taken off, they start running again.)
For people who started shooting after the AWB passed, after the AR-15s rise, and rails and accessories along with it?
Came an
accidentally warped idea of how easy it is to plug and play parts into OTHER platforms.
1911 stuff as a rule (And there are exceptions-ish) aren't a plug and play platform for parts.
They're about handfitting, timing, tolerances, all that.
2 Examples:Over-polishing a feed ramp and making it out of spec? Could/would make a jammomatic.
And the frame is toast.
Hastily feeding an extractor and/or over-filing it, you could get an extractor that clocks or jiggles in there, and now it jams.
Now it's not a nuclear reactor or anything, it's not impossible - BUT it's a platform for the mechanically inclined, and one has to be REALLLLLY careful tinkering with certain things