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#1 ·
Have any of you used these rubber buffers for a 1911 from Wilson combat.
 
#2 ·
I tried them. I hated them. Won't use them.
 
#4 ·
Yup, those are them. I bought a kit of them, used one of them once.

At the time--years ago--one gunwriter did a test and sheared off a piece, causing a stoppage.

I figured that Tussey could fix anything I could break on the pistol, but not my body if my defensive piece suffered a stoppage.

I gave the unused buffers and the replacement rod to a guy with an aluminum frame Colt.
 
#6 ·
I used them on my Colt for years. You need to replace them once in awhile, but they def buffer things down. Never had an issue with them.


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#12 ·
When I was doing a lot of combat shooting (+400 rounds every week, per handgun) I was using reloads from a Dillon Square Deal that were about a 7/8s load. Strong enough not to mess with slide timing, yet toss the brass completely clear of the pistol without excessive recoil.

I changed the recoil springs often, but then they were 6 to 8 dollars per each. Every year they went back to Tussey for preventative service.

The wild card was a stainless Colt Officers ACP. That was the gun I carried at work, and I shot that puppy with fullhouse loads at every outing. After the third complete rebuild, Tussey pronounced it a "wall hanger" and told me to stop shooting it--it is the only firearm I have ever worn out.

So technically, there is a need for shock buffers. My records show that I loaded 80,000 rounds before I broke the handle on the Square Deal, which Dillon replaced for free--and I continued from there. That encompassed a full-size 1911, a Detonics and the Officers ACP.

If you're a combat shooter, I say "maybe," but you have to be doing serious damage to a pistol to be a candidate.
 
#15 ·
I stopped using them years ago when I started having FTF problems in my Colt Gold Cup in bullseye competition. I' am know of the opinion that if shock buffers were necessary, why didn't John Browning include them in his first 1911 design? Food for thought.
 
#17 · (Edited)
Why?

If the recoil of a .45 ACP bothered me, I might consider a recoil buffer. It doesn't, so I don't!!

And that's the truth!!