Some vintage items of my dad's. He was a big bullseye pistol shooter
A Bulls-Eye gun like that should only use 185-grain wadcutters. No wonder the slide cracked with hot loads. If that's the original GI slide they were a bit on the soft side...they weren't fully hardened until WWII. They originally were hardened in certain high-stress areas only.
A Bulls-Eye gun like that should only use 185-grain wadcutters. No wonder the slide cracked with hot loads. If that's the original GI slide they were a bit on the soft side...they weren't fully hardened until WWII. They originally were hardened in certain high-stress areas only.
For standard 230 ball ammo a standard 116 lb. recoil spring is appropriate.
I think that's kind of heavy, even for 45 ACP
I shot Dad’s 1918 in bullseye competition using a 200 grain midrange swc. When I used it for 230 grain ball I removed the softball recoil spring and installed the standard weight 16 pound spring. Never had an issue with it - the slide was standard weight and was not lightened.
The set-up looks familiar. I have a pre Gold Cup National Match Colt that was worked on by an old bullseye gunsmith named Austin Behlert. He followed the circuit in a VW van when he wasn’t working out of his shop in N.J.
I had dealings with "Butcher" Behlert