“There are frames in the USMC inventory that have had as many as 500,000 rounds fired through them...
I don’t know. At some point I would just chuck it and get another one.”.............
True, and I’m sure a few go that way. Still it is a testiment to, as another poster wrote, John Browning’s genius. I understand that the Marines are buying new manufacture 1911A1s on the commercial market to help fill demand within the ranks.
LOL. I am not an arms master and don’t have G Money. So my impression would be rebuild once, maybe twice(I have done neither) and get a new one.
I have a spare barrel for the Kimber and will squire a few other parts but, My preference is to not work on these things or pay someone else to do it.
Kinda like working on cars. Did it when I was younger but now, I don’t care if I ever spin another wrench, unless I have to.