I always used the traditional disassembly/reassembly method with my Springfield 1911A1 Mil-Spec (Parkerized), and aside from the ‘idiot mark’ during a first-timer slip, the method never failed me and soon became muscle memory and a pleasant recurring sensory ASMR session hundreds of times over 14,000+ rounds fired and additional pulling of my barrel to check taper crimp die height for single-stage press hand-loading.
Well, the guy that invented it wrote the manual for the care and feeding of the M1911. Now, if John Moses Browning says remove the recoil spring housing first, then that's the way he made it to be done.
My dad was a WWII Marine sergeant and he gave me his 1940 "bible". I have ALWAYS pulled the mag, cleared, cocked & locked the slide and started takedown with the recoil spring plug and bushing like the manual says. When done with a modicum of care I find it simple, safe and straight forward and it obviates the challenge of trying to reassemble while holding the slide under pressure. (for that nightmare I switch to my Colt 1903!! lol)
Great video. The first time I took mine apart I was kind of wondering if this was a possibility. Thanks for confirming, and for demonstrating both methods very well.
Nice video! Some bushings are hard to rotate. I have an Ed Brown and and Smith & Wesson PC that you need a bushing wrench. There are some good ones that have an extra tab on the wrench that keeps the recoil spring plug from flying as you are rotating the barrel bushing. regards, NS.
Thank you so much.... you have saved me time and money. I thought i was gonna have to buy a stupid tool to remove my compensator but this works even better!!!!
You do it the way I've done it for ever. When I got my 1911 I didn't know how to take it apart. I took it apart basically like my 9mm guns and it worked fine. Thanks for showing me Im not to crazy.
Thanks for demonstrating each of these ways together very informative and reminds me that there's always more than one way to skin a cat all the best m8 👍👍
I watched your other video showing the way you dis-assemble the 1911. In this video, you show the way I was taught in 1970 by my base Range Master (who happened to live across the street from me). 1911A1 I qualified with was an improved model and was a pleasure to shoot.
If that ring gets misaligned, just use a punch to line it back up, now you have both hands free to work on the gun. Over the years, the manufacturers cut corner, the spring plug's supposed to have a notch cutout for the spring to sit in, so it won't launch during disassembling and assembling. Such spring plugs are still available.
3:42 The spring plug (for single recoil spring setup) usually has a small dent near the closed end, so the tip of the recoil spring can go in between this dent and the closed end (most time you need to wiggle a little bit while trying to thread the spring on). That will lock the plug onto the spring so it won't launch while you working on it :)
This is NOT the way the US navy taught 1911 disassembly years ago .... and nothing disparaging on Uncle Sugar, but I like your method much better. I have not yet "idiot scratched" my stainless Sig 1911, but I might have sooner or later if not for this vid. Thanks! :)
This is very similar to field stripping a Beretta M9 (92FS). There is no removable slide stop, barrel bushing or spring plug. You rotate the take down lever and remove the slide. Then you remove the spring and guide rod and the barrel from the slide. Reverse the process to reassemble. The Beretta is the easiest pistol to field strip that I own.
I prefer to not have the spring tension when reinstalling the slide stop, but that’s just me. The really difficult one for me was always a 3” with a bull barrel. Put a nasty idiot mark on an EMP frame back when this was all very new to me.
Useful to see both versions. Thanks for the update. Edit - yeah - 10mm springs are a LOT stouter; going to try your method next time I take the Ronin 1911 10mm out.
My Taurus 1911 has a full length guide rod. It lacks just a tiny bit of clearance to disassemble without removing the Collet Bushing first. I discovered that recently after a move when the bushing wrench was still packed in the case in the garage. This bushing is VERY stiff and the wrench is an important part of the cleaning process I just discovered! It's always something I guess! Anyhow wrench recovered from the box in the garage. I kind of wish it would turn as easy as the one you demonstrated on. I think this is the only 1911 I have had that could not be disassembled after removing the slide from the frame.
Well you made the traditional way look extremely difficult. Either way works pretty much the same. I’ve been disassembling and assembling 1911s for more than 55 years. And, you are using a Remington as an example. You should have done it on a very tight 1911, like a Dan Wesson, or an Ed Brown, or a Les Baer.
It gets easy when you get picked by the 1SG to help the armorer clean the officer's weapons and you are stationed in the ADC HQ. Think of a platoon of just officers.
We did "bushing first" - and In navy boot camp I remember the threat that if anyone allowed the bushing to launch under spring pressure the outcome wouldn't be good. I envisioned push-ups for a week ... and sure enough, that's what happened to a couple of guys. They must be in their 70s now but I bet their upper body strength is still awesome! :)
It is more difficult to do the BHP style like you do with a full length guide rod. Mine has the FLGR and I have the easiest time field stripping using the traditional method.
The problem i have, is after surviving a stroke, I lost full use of my left hand, also lost my physical strength and dexterity of my hands and fingers. Taking my 1911 apart isn't a problem, I need help putting it back together
I also use your method. Only because if you do it the traditional way you run the risk of scratching up your bushing and/or recoil plug. I'd prefer not to do that on my $5k gun. 😮
Do you ever fire the 2 guns you have shown in your 2 videos of the right and wrong way to remove the spring, plug, slide, barrel and bushing from a 1911 (the right way is the beginning of this video).
Can you make this any more complicated? Still trying to justify the first video? 2:55 - Slide the link down before sliding the slide on the frame. If the link is up, hold the gun upright and the link will go down. If the link is too tight to fall, push the spring in. The only reason to pull the slide back off is that you messed up with the link behind when you put the slide on. 3:42 - I bet you worry that cars from the freeway might fly off the road and hit your house, too, right? Most can hold the plug with their thumb and move the bushing in one motion easily. If you can't, or have fat thumbs, that is what the tang on the front of the magazine is for. Use the tang to hold the plug down. 5:32 - for everyone watching, this is an example of finding a way to do something different than what the designer said to do that doesn't simplify but instead complicates things.
Great video. The first time I took mine apart I was kind of wondering if this was a possibility. Thanks for confirming, and for demonstrating both methods very well.
Both methods shown smoothly. Good quick demo 👍
Brilliant! It's always been fiddly when cleaning my 1911. Watching you disassemble/reassemble using both techniques has rocked my world. Thank you.
I have limited experience with 1911’s, but “your” method is the way I was show many years ago. Thank you for a well done lesson and confirmation.
I always used the traditional disassembly/reassembly method with my Springfield 1911A1 Mil-Spec (Parkerized), and aside from the ‘idiot mark’ during a first-timer slip, the method never failed me and soon became muscle memory and a pleasant recurring sensory ASMR session hundreds of times over 14,000+ rounds fired and additional pulling of my barrel to check taper crimp die height for single-stage press hand-loading.
Well, the guy that invented it wrote the manual for the care and feeding of the M1911. Now, if John Moses Browning says remove the recoil spring housing first, then that's the way he made it to be done.
My dad was a WWII Marine sergeant and he gave me his 1940 "bible". I have ALWAYS pulled the mag, cleared, cocked & locked the slide and started takedown with the recoil spring plug and bushing like the manual says. When done with a modicum of care I find it simple, safe and straight forward and it obviates the challenge of trying to reassemble while holding the slide under pressure. (for that nightmare I switch to my Colt 1903!! lol)
Great video. The first time I took mine apart I was kind of wondering if this was a possibility. Thanks for confirming, and for demonstrating both methods very well.
I believe you’ve convinced me. I actually think your way is better than the way I’ve been doing it. Thank you!
Nice video! Some bushings are hard to rotate. I have an Ed Brown and and Smith & Wesson PC that you need a bushing wrench. There are some good ones that have an extra tab on the wrench that keeps the recoil spring plug from flying as you are rotating the barrel bushing. regards, NS.
Thank you so much.... you have saved me time and money. I thought i was gonna have to buy a stupid tool to remove my compensator but this works even better!!!!
You do it the way I've done it for ever. When I got my 1911 I didn't know how to take it apart. I took it apart basically like my 9mm guns and it worked fine. Thanks for showing me Im not to crazy.
Thanks for demonstrating each of these ways together very informative and reminds me that there's always more than one way to skin a cat all the best m8 👍👍
I watched your other video showing the way you dis-assemble the 1911. In this video, you show the way I was taught in 1970 by my base Range Master (who happened to live across the street from me). 1911A1 I qualified with was an improved model and was a pleasure to shoot.
Very helpful! Thanks
If that ring gets misaligned, just use a punch to line it back up, now you have both hands free to work on the gun. Over the years, the manufacturers cut corner, the spring plug's supposed to have a notch cutout for the spring to sit in, so it won't launch during disassembling and assembling. Such spring plugs are still available.
Well done
3:42 The spring plug (for single recoil spring setup) usually has a small dent near the closed end, so the tip of the recoil spring can go in between this dent and the closed end (most time you need to wiggle a little bit while trying to thread the spring on). That will lock the plug onto the spring so it won't launch while you working on it :)
I favor the traditional method to disassemble and your method to re assemble.
Just goes to show, you Can have it 6-ways one way and half a dozen the other way.
Good thinking . . .
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*Тhe most beautiful gun in the world.*
That’s the right way to take it apart, people who have taken military training learned that way, in ROTC
This is NOT the way the US navy taught 1911 disassembly years ago .... and nothing disparaging on Uncle Sugar, but I like your method much better. I have not yet "idiot scratched" my stainless Sig 1911, but I might have sooner or later if not for this vid. Thanks! :)
This is very similar to field stripping a Beretta M9 (92FS). There is no removable slide stop, barrel bushing or spring plug. You rotate the take down lever and remove the slide. Then you remove the spring and guide rod and the barrel from the slide. Reverse the process to reassemble. The Beretta is the easiest pistol to field strip that I own.
I prefer to not have the spring tension when reinstalling the slide stop, but that’s just me. The really difficult one for me was always a 3” with a bull barrel. Put a nasty idiot mark on an EMP frame back when this was all very new to me.
Congratulations. You have showed us both the right way and the wrong way. The traditional is the correct way.
Useful to see both versions. Thanks for the update. Edit - yeah - 10mm springs are a LOT stouter; going to try your method next time I take the Ronin 1911 10mm out.
2nd method does remove the issue of indexing the barrel bushing under pressure.
Either way of doing it potentially allows the spring/componets to go flying..
My Taurus 1911 has a full length guide rod. It lacks just a tiny bit of clearance to disassemble without removing the Collet Bushing first. I discovered that recently after a move when the bushing wrench was still packed in the case in the garage. This bushing is VERY stiff and the wrench is an important part of the cleaning process I just discovered! It's always something I guess! Anyhow wrench recovered from the box in the garage. I kind of wish it would turn as easy as the one you demonstrated on. I think this is the only 1911 I have had that could not be disassembled after removing the slide from the frame.
NICE!
Reasonable solution to a non-existent problem.
Well you made the traditional way look extremely difficult. Either way works pretty much the same. I’ve been disassembling and assembling 1911s for more than 55 years. And, you are using a Remington as an example. You should have done it on a very tight 1911, like a Dan Wesson, or an Ed Brown, or a Les Baer.
It gets easy when you get picked by the 1SG to help the armorer clean the officer's weapons and you are stationed in the ADC HQ.
Think of a platoon of just officers.
U are grate thank u
Very good. Thanks
Once you have lubed up the parts, the traditional way can be quite challenging
Unless you have a one piece guide rod, the bushing-first makes more sense.
We did "bushing first" - and In navy boot camp I remember the threat that if anyone allowed the bushing to launch under spring pressure the outcome wouldn't be good. I envisioned push-ups for a week ... and sure enough, that's what happened to a couple of guys. They must be in their 70s now but I bet their upper body strength is still awesome! :)
I had that remmington. nice gun, I regret selling it.
The Speed 1911 Field Strippers all use the Traditional method.
Mag first, then clear chamber.
The first type of pistol I disassembled was a 1911.
I want one.
Your way seems more difficult!
It is more difficult to do the BHP style like you do with a full length guide rod. Mine has the FLGR and I have the easiest time field stripping using the traditional method.
Useful info! Doing the slide removal method seems a lot less fiddly.
"I don't like loose parts rattling around in the gun when I'm disassembling it." Yeah, well I don't like fighting with springs to get stuff lined up.
speaking for all of us "un-special" people that's neat.
*4:45** You learn method 1, to break down, ALL 1911s. You do method 2 to break down, YOUR 1911.*
The problem i have, is after surviving a stroke, I lost full use of my left hand, also lost my physical strength and dexterity of my hands and fingers. Taking my 1911 apart isn't a problem, I need help putting it back together
Remove spring plug,then slide stop, then bushing.
I've always wondered why people like to fight with something if there is an easier way
3:22 what is this wizardry?
I also use your method. Only because if you do it the traditional way you run the risk of scratching up your bushing and/or recoil plug. I'd prefer not to do that on my $5k gun. 😮
Step 1 in ensuring a weapon is clear: Remove the source of ammunition (the magazine).
When you play with it but never shoot it.
laughs in FUDD 😂
Do you ever fire the 2 guns you have shown in your 2 videos of the right and wrong way to remove the spring, plug, slide, barrel and bushing from a 1911 (the right way is the beginning of this video).
If you care about longevity of accuracy, never the bushing.
Being autistic may be a good thing.
If more people were, i surmise we'd All be alot better off.
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Can you make this any more complicated? Still trying to justify the first video?
2:55 - Slide the link down before sliding the slide on the frame. If the link is up, hold the gun upright and the link will go down. If the link is too tight to fall, push the spring in. The only reason to pull the slide back off is that you messed up with the link behind when you put the slide on. 3:42 - I bet you worry that cars from the freeway might fly off the road and hit your house, too, right? Most can hold the plug with their thumb and move the bushing in one motion easily. If you can't, or have fat thumbs, that is what the tang on the front of the magazine is for. Use the tang to hold the plug down.
5:32 - for everyone watching, this is an example of finding a way to do something different than what the designer said to do that doesn't simplify but instead complicates things.
This is like watch an infomercial for a product that solves a problem that nobody has
Apparently you don't know how to do it correctly the first time traditionally
Searching for solutions for problems that do not exist.
Shaken
Thank you. That is rather obvious. However i didn't think of it. Thank you.
Use a bushing wrench and it works smother. IMO
Great video. The first time I took mine apart I was kind of wondering if this was a possibility. Thanks for confirming, and for demonstrating both methods very well.
If you can assemble and disassemble these then the Hi-Power is the same except no barrel bush.