Josh;
I feel certain that there are few aftermarket parts for the BM save those that interchange with the 1911.
The hammer and trigger are not among those. The trigger is a pivoting affair much like the Star B...as such it should be able to be tuned pretty light but I am not sure what kine of overtravel arrangement could be made.
G.Gordon Liddy makes the claim in his novel, "The Monkey Handlers" (a really good read which includes a Gunsite Service Pistol used by one of the protagonists) that the BMs were made from steel salvaged from one of the German Battleships or Battlecruisers (Either the Tripitz or the Graph Spee but I really don't remember). While this sounds cool I don't know if it is true nor does it mean much since some steels used might not be all that hard anyway.
I do know from experience that the Stars are soft. I also know that the 1911 pattern Argentines are also even though they are extremely well fitted.
One of my partners and my Sheriff each have an Argentine 1911a1. The Sheriff's keeps plugging right along but my partners cracked the slide after about 70,000 rounds (shucks
).
Onward!
Jim
I feel certain that there are few aftermarket parts for the BM save those that interchange with the 1911.
The hammer and trigger are not among those. The trigger is a pivoting affair much like the Star B...as such it should be able to be tuned pretty light but I am not sure what kine of overtravel arrangement could be made.
G.Gordon Liddy makes the claim in his novel, "The Monkey Handlers" (a really good read which includes a Gunsite Service Pistol used by one of the protagonists) that the BMs were made from steel salvaged from one of the German Battleships or Battlecruisers (Either the Tripitz or the Graph Spee but I really don't remember). While this sounds cool I don't know if it is true nor does it mean much since some steels used might not be all that hard anyway.
I do know from experience that the Stars are soft. I also know that the 1911 pattern Argentines are also even though they are extremely well fitted.
One of my partners and my Sheriff each have an Argentine 1911a1. The Sheriff's keeps plugging right along but my partners cracked the slide after about 70,000 rounds (shucks
).Onward!
Jim
