Picked up this pretty nice pre-B 85, dated '89. Looked carried a lot, but shot very little. Some surface rust and minor pitting here and there externally. Internals were pretty decent once I detail stripped and cleaned all the gunk out. Looked like the cop or whoever used it only bothered cleaning the slide and barrel, the trigger spring broke when I was dry firing it after getting it home lol
Anyway, I read the old thread regarding modifying the magwell to work with newer style magazines. Currently my 16 and 17rd Mecgars will fit and function (already shot it over the weekend), but don?t drop free. After filing a little on the upper and lower portion of the magwell per the thread, they will almost drop out. The 16rd mags do if I don?t have the sear cage in, and that brings me to my question.
From what I can see, the mags get held up by the sear cage and not so much the magwell itself. Would I hurt anything filing down the front of the sear cage? I planned on getting a new one anyway because the ejector had some damage on it under the ejector, like a mag had been way overinserted. Additionally, the slide seems to hang up on the newer style mags a tiny bit when racking the slide. Like a slight bump right before the slide hits the hammer. Can?t tell what it?s hanging up on. Like I mentioned they did work at the range, but I have a feeling it?ll damage something if I continue to use the new style mags. Any ideas what the hangup could be?Second order of business is sights. Gun shoots way low and the previous owner hammered the crap out of the front sight in an attempt to, I presume, raise the POI. Hammered to the point it mushroomed on the sides and there was no light that could get through the sides looking through the rear sight. Which shops can mill the slide to use a 1911 front? I?ve read that was possible.
Thanks for any input