gulliver62 wrote:After posting my situation to the former Bullseye-L, my money was returned.
Man, that is really sucky. The amount of time it takes to build those pistols (by adding the rail system to them) is considerable. While they've been trying to stay on top of the orders, the reality is that 1911 based pistols are the ones leaving the shop the fastest.
This is because they are, to the best of my knowledge, no longer working on other peoples 1911s. MCP is specifically selling NEW pistol, and many of them are being test fired by Brian Zins since he's been spending a fair amount of time at MCP.
So, let's see what's changed since the original start of this tread:
1) MCP no longer works on other people's 1911s, as they can provide you a flawless match Bulls Eye pistol in 9mm or .45. Moreover, they can do it for about the same about of money as it would cost to send in your current 1911 and have the rail system installed along with all the other neat addtions.
2) MCP has significantly increased it's manufacturing base. They now have three locations, two outside of Pittsburg and one in Tannersville (sp) PA.
3) MCP has added a 9 axis CnC milling machine to their collection, and this has significantly increased thier precision output of 1911 pistols. (The full shop has several 3 and 4 axis CnC milling machines, surface grinders, and such as well.)
4) There have been some updates to the website, mostly going over shooter's nutrition (remember, one of Dr Nicks PhDs is in Nutrition). The other going over their manufacturing process verses others.
5) There has been mention about how to deal with the 92SF modifications, and it may be possible for them to start producing their own slides as this point. However, I don't recall the specifics. I do know that it is one of their ultimate goals to produce their own 92SF from scratch, but they are working on another project at the moment... so while this is not on hold, it's certainly taking time.
6) They've begun, after meeting an interesting company at SHOT this year, using a chemical heat treating process that not only adds a black finish to ALL of the steal parts in their 1911s, but also increases the Rockwell Hardness of the parts to 70. It is Dr Nicks belief that at this point barrel bushings will see a service life that may actually be for the life of the firearm.
As a side note, the heat treating process also adds a finish to the INSIDE of the barrels... which greatly reduces fouling. It's nice when technology actually works the way you want it to.
Since the finish actaually enbeds itself into the surface of the metal, it does not alter the dementions of the finished product. Wild, to say the least...
7) Turn around times on 1911 pistols have dramatically decreased. Primarily due to the fact that they now make basically all of their own parts and EVERY pistol that comes off the line is, for all intent and purpose, identical. They use CnC equipment even on the smallest of parts. ...and are now able to keep a stock of completed pistols on hand.
8) Gunny Zins is now working on his own line of match ammunition, and he's doing this in concert wth MCP. So at this point MCP is now recommending Brain Zins' upcoming ammunition line for use in all of their pistols. (This is on their website along with an update to the reloading section.)
9) MCP is continuing to check each and every barrel they use, and they do continue to have a 10-20% rejection rate. From what Dr. Nick has indicated, the barrel is THE most important part for any of his firearms. It MUST group at 1 inch at 50 yards.
10) They also developed a new process for cutting the lower barrel lug with the barrel in battery (in the slide)... That was just neat see...
Like any business it appears that MCP has had growing pains, but it seems like they've gotten the stuff largely in order.
I'm sorta suprised about the length of time it took for your resolution with 92SF delay. I know I'd be annoyed depending on the circumstnaces.
All I can tell anyone is the 1911s are rolling of the assembly line pretty darned fast and with extraodinary precision.
I've been over to the Tannersville location and got to inspect a bunch of the new 1911s (using the new chemical heat treating process). Man, those are some NICE pistols.
