Alright. Happy father's day Luger forum! Yesterday I went to the range and did some shooting. My Luger definitely still has some issues.
First of all the hold open mech, it was not reliable to hold the action up after the last round. (That chamber indicator is a nice feature that came in very handy here BTW) The MecGar mag works better in this regard than my refurbished mag, but even so this new hold open spring might need some more adjustments.
Speaking of the magazine, this rebuilt mag also has some issues... first of all the spring, it's a Mecgar spring but it doesn't feel as strong as on my MecGar mag. (I'm thinking I should order another MecGar mag BTW) Also I wasn't able to put as many rounds in this mag as I can in the MecGar, and the spring has some issues... several times it bunched up and I had to stick the tool in the side slot to correct it. The Mecgar mag has a cylinder piece under the follower to keep the spring in line, I don't have one of those on this rebuild mag and from the diagrams I've seen the original mag springs were more square shaped to prevent bunching.
Next issue was the rear sight. I was actually getting some good accuracy with it at25 yards, but unfortunately I guess I didn't tighten the centering screw enough and the rear sight worked itself off the barrel. I did punch the pin out to take the top part off the rear sight Friday night, in order to tighten that little screw. Unfortunately I didn't tighten it enough, I didn't have a sharp enough screw driver so I used a razor blade... I suppose this time I'll have to grind the tip of a screw driver to sharpen it enough to work that lil screw and maybe even use some lock tight?
So anyway here's a few pictures from my range day. I don't feel too bad about my Luger issues because it still preformed better than that mean looking .45 I got there. It was my first shots with this 1911, I bought it because I wanted another pistol to shoot, to save wear on the Luger... (and also because since I was a kid I've always wanted a 45 auto.) First 300 rounds with it and its last round hold open failed more times than it worked, even a couple of times it suffered failure to feed! So considering all that, I don't feel too bad about my "Luger issues" -though I still intend to resolve them.
Also there is a picture here of my two magazines fully loaded. As you can see in my refurbished one the spring is bunching up a bit when it's loaded up. It needs that cylindrical bit to keep it lined up.