Polishing feed ramp

[Dmaxboy08]

I finally got to get a Remington R1 1911. I have a few 1911s but not a "true" 1911. I took it apart and cleaned it all up. I have read where you should polish the feed ramps to help with a misfeed. Now please dont bash me hard, but what should i use to polish the feed ramp? The feed ramp on this gun is black and not made onto the barrel.

Again, please dont kill me for asking a rather dumb question.

[arjay]

Take it out and shoot it first and see how it functions .None of my 1911s over the years have needed polishing.

[forresth]

Ya, Don't mess with it if it don't need it.
I went a little heavy handed with the feed ramp on my wife's ***. It is now a single shot ready for a convenient "buy-back".

ps. really? an acronym is filtered out?

[smithnframe]

Try it out first. I polish them lightly with a polishing wheel in a dremel tool. Take it easy though. I have two 1911's and one needed polishing and one didn't. Also a Polish P 64 that needed it badly. Both feed fine now.

[TACC1]

DMAXBOY08, it'd be a dumb question if you didn't ask it.
Now you can get answers from folks who Know.
Besides, I thought I had a corner on those questions.
TACC1

[venomballistics]

if you must polish the ramp, roll up some 400 grit silicon carbide sandpaper and have at it. do not try to change shapes or angles just smooth things out. Follow that up with 600 grit in the same way and leave it alone.

[jaykellogg]

I say shoot it first with a variety of ammunition. You cannot unpolish it. BTW, a 1911 isn't broken in for at least 500 rounds and probably more like 1000 rounds.

I had a gunsmith polish the feedramp on my Diamondback DB380 so it would feed hollowpoints. It took him all of 5-10 seconds. He didn't charge me anything either.

[Rule3]

Why do you have to polish it? It is a new gun, does it not work (feed)? Leave it alone. No offense but you can do more damage for no real reason and void your warranty.

If it ain't broke....................

[Dmaxboy08]

Originally Posted by Rule3

Why do you have to polish it? It is a new gun, does it not work (feed)? Leave it alone. No offense but you can do more damage for no real reason and void your warranty.

If it ain't broke....................

................dont fix it. I havent shot this R1 yet. I will in about 45min tho. Last night I was feeding rounds thru it and HPs seemed like the slide was harder to close and open. When i ran round noses thru it, the slide operated smooth as silk. So i started searching around and found a few places where guys where having problems with HPs and the cure was to polish the feed ramp.

[Rule3]

Manually feed can not duplicate the actual firing of a gun. If I recall the Remington is a blued gun, does the feed ramp have a blued or black coating on it? I would shoot it for a while first with ball ammo, if it does not function correctly, contact Remington, that's what a warranty is for.

[arjay]

Many 1911s have been ruined by over polishing.See how it functions at the range first and if it has a problem,send it back under warranty.

[H Richard]

Unless the feed ramp has visually apparent tool marks that would impede rounds being fed into the barrel, don't worry about it. 9 out of 10 currently mfg. 1911's don't need any work.

[chief38]

The best way to polish it up is to shoot it with a couple of hundred Hardball rounds. That should do it.

[RightArm]

Thanks for the question and all responses. I'm finally picking my R1 this week. It's been a long wait and I didn't know the feed ramp was blued. I plan on using ball ammo anyway, so I'm glad to hear it shouldn't be a problem. I really don't want any problems. I'm trading a fixed problem in for the R1.
Thanks again gentlemen.

[Dmaxboy08]

Well I took it to the range today. This gun is wonderful. I ran 150 rounds of factory round nose ammo through it and I have no problems. I switched over to reloaded hornady 200grain HP and speer 200 grain HP. Ran 50 of both and again had zero issues.
This is a very smooth gun.