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So yesterday I took my wife shooting. She's NOT very comfortable with handguns yet so we worked up from a .22 revolver, .380, 9mm to the 1911 (.45acp). On the very first mag, the gun slam fired as she released the slide! I was watching her and told her she must have touched the trigger. Thank God we had JUST had the "always pointed in a safe direction" conversation, but needless to say it shook her (and me) up pretty good. I really hate that for her. She got through about 4 rounds and said "no thanks". I was surprised she wanted to pull the trigger at all after that. I finished firing it. Loaded another couple mags without issue. THEN.... I had just 2 rounds left in this particular box and loaded them. Released the slide and it did it again and immediately fired BOTH rounds! Two thoughts came to mind. 1) I had no idea a 1911 could cycle that fast (I mean it was instantaneous ) and 2) What in the world would have happened if I had a full 8 rounds loaded, and was at a public range?
I "assume" it's a bad sear and I'll call Remington tomorrow but any other ideas?
It's a WW2 vintage Remington 1911A1 (that despite it's age I bet hasn't had 2,000 rounds fired through it, though yeah, who really knows) and it was some very old (30 years+) reloads. I haven't shot this gun much, probably less 500 rounds but have never had this issue before (obviously).