How many rounds thru your old 45's

[arado]

The .30 I went to is a 1911 converted by Tokarev in 1933. Still in service. the TT33. Which in my opinion is the best individual weapon in history. Ease of use, firepower, accuracy, reliability, portability, range and cost.

[browningautorifle]

That could be very neat...

[jmoore]

I used to load 9mm about 3000 at a time, and .45s about 1000 per run. Kept count for a while, but the loads rarely changed after the first year or two, so the records aren't all tha good afterwards. Had plenty to do otherwise! Round counts now are way down. Have run about 400 .41 mags, 500 .44 Spl, and 7-800 .44 mag loads this year. .45 ACP? Not much more than 300 rounds, probably. Have loaded no 9s at all. and haven't shot much of them. Awaiting the return of the rebarreled 9mm and 10mm 1911s from the gunsmith. He's good, but, like most, way behind!

ETA: Oops, make that 600 .45 ACPs. 300 .45 Colt. It's still a pitifully small number!

[noelekal]

Don't know how many rounds have been fired through this World War I era, Augusta Arsenal rehab 1911. I got it in 1978 as a 21st birthday present to myself. It was bought to use. Used to load up 1200 rounds of ammunition loaded with cast lead bullets at a time, keeping them on the floor beside a leg of the reloading bench in a canvas U.S. Mint sack that originally shipped $1000 worth of quarters. Don't know how many sacks of handloads this 1911 went through but it was several before about 1982 when a Colt Gold Cup showed up and took some of the shooting pressure off of it. A few recoil springs are all the maintenance attention it's had other than regular cleaning and lubricating.

It's not fully retired to this day but sees only occasional exercise, mostly for nostalgia's sake. It's also still carried on occasion.

[bolo]

I fired about 10,000 rds out of my Springfield Armory Mil Spec M1911A1

a few GI magazines had stress cracks and replaced my recoil spring once

modern steels are much more durable than the old WWI or WWII models

get a new M1911A1 if you intend to use it regularly

save the old war horses for your collecting [non shooters]

[browningautorifle]

That's what I did. I gave up shooting a WW2 Remington Rand and bought an as new Auto Ord to shoot the p*ss out of.