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Learn how to field strip your 1911 for easy cleaning and lubing after a range day.
We’ll also go over how to completely disassemble your 1911 for those deep cleaning sessions.
1911 Field Strip & Cleaning/Lubing
Field stripping is disassembling your gun into it’s primary components for routine cleaning and maintenance. The 1911 is slightly harder to field strip than other pistols, but can still be done in no time. Before we go into cleaning specifically for the 1911, you might want to first check out our primer on How to Clean and Lubricate a Gun. We also recommend the following tools and solvents/lube for cleaning our 1911 and other guns.- M-Pro 7 Tactical Universal Cleaning Kit
- M-Pro 7 Gun Cleaner
- M-Pro 7 Oil
- M-Pro 7 Copper Remover
- Super Lube
- 1911 Barrel Bushing Tool (recommended to not scratch up your gun)
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Some good info here. But definitely missing info about what is probably the number one 1911 gunsmithing project, barrel fitting. A great gunsmith can marginally improve results with a great trigger job, but it's not going to be a night-and-day difference, because the triggers are pretty good right out of the box. Hand fitting a match barrel on a 1911 makes a much bigger improvement in accuracy, more than any other accurizing technique.
The photo attached is quite misleading as the video does not show the full disassembly