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Old 05-14-2017, 01:13 PM
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I have heard a few anecdotal reports of slide stops breaking on some MIM equipped 1911's. Not necessarily S&W's. That's out of 10's of thousands of guns equipped with MIM parts. If the MIM parts don't break almost immediately, they probably aren't going to.
I can think of a few Colt 1911's that suffered broken slide stop levers, but it also turned out the guns were being run hard, using a lot of +P ammunition, without recoil springs being replaced very often.
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