WOW. In literally millions and millions of rounds shot and watched shot in IPSC matches, I have seen
a LOT of different broken guns, but never before that part, broken that way on any design based on 1911 or HiPower.
The little tit on sstop that engages the mag follower to lock back would occasionally break on 1911s, but almost all of those
I ever saw were Colts and made in the 80s, when their quality was at a fairly inconsistent level. Haven't seen that failure
in probably 20 years.
I trust Ed Brown 1911 small parts head and shoulders above Wilson these days, even though I have two WONDERFUL and dead
reliable Wilson custom 1911s. I have personally seen two Wilson 1911 extractors that had missed heat treat, were soft,
wouldn't hold tension for 40 rounds. Wilson replaced them without batting an eye......BUT
I will be quite surprised if you get any grief from CZ, my bet is they just send a new part, although they may want to see
why it happened, don't know. I know Alice personally and she is a real good person, and I am also friends with the Sales
Manager there. All the CZ folks I know (at the top of the company) are REAL gun people, I have shot in competition with
several of them for years, off and on, mostly off, now.
+1 for "5K is barely broken in". I have multiple semi auto pistols with more than 40K+ on them and running like a sewing
machine, several in the 70-100K range, one GCup broke a rear sight at about 65K and the slide stop tit at maybe 15-20K,
nothing else. The others have been "break free". As to MIM parts, one at about 40K is a Kimber 1911, very early production,
all MIM internals are still humming along. I put a 2 lb trigger on it in about 1998 and it still holds 2 lbs and perfect. I trust
MIM parts, but I suppose some may be faultily made.
Bill
