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Offline teamnelson

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Ciener .22 Conversion on a Taurus 1911
« on: August 26, 2009, 12:17:18 PM »
Ordered one of their specials straight from Ciener http://www.22lrconversions.com/specials.htm, government matte fixed sites with extra mag, $219 shipped to Hawaii. Same thing at Midway is $234 before shipping. Customer service at Ciener is silent - no phone # or email. They do everything by mail, which is not ideal, but hey. I take it they're busy making slides with other folks labels on it.

Initially it would only slide on so far. I found a thread where a guy had to remove his ejector and dremel out a channel on a Kimber conversion to make it fit on a Taurus frame. So I stared long and hard at the pin for the ejector and decided I wanted a second opinion. Found a comment on Midway that it slid right on so I figured it must be rubbing somewhere. I "gently" pushed on the nose to see if there was some play, and rocking it back a few milimeters found that there was no hard resistance, just a little tight. Took it off and found the shiny parts, filed it down a hair, put a little jeweller's rouge on it, put it back on and racked it a hundred times. Took it apart again, wiped it off, oiled it, put it back together and racked a few more hundred times. Perfect! Now just need to take it shooting.

I may take a picture of the slide and post if anyone is interested. And I'll give a range report eventually.
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Re: Ciener .22 Conversion on a Taurus 1911
« Reply #1 on: August 30, 2009, 04:24:59 AM »
Howdy,
By your recommendation I sent a check off yesterday and gave up any notions of obtaining a Tokarev. Good grief! I found that missing box of .22 shells last week and I now know why you guys can't find any. Sorry 'bout that. I don't know how I'll shoot them all. Guess what Mikey's getting for Christmas...
The Ciener special makes a whole lot of sense. I like shooting my 1911, and I can convert it for the price of about eight boxes of .45's. Smart.


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Re: Ciener .22 Conversion on a Taurus 1911
« Reply #2 on: August 30, 2009, 11:44:34 AM »
Bob - you're getting me a new Romanian Tokarev for Christmas?  Why (blush), thank you.  Mikey.

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Re: Ciener .22 Conversion on a Taurus 1911
« Reply #3 on: August 31, 2009, 06:52:36 AM »
NOOOO!
30-year old .22 shells!
Best price on the Tokarevs seems to be about $200. Same as the Ciener. Why monkey around with corrosive plinking ammo when I can shoot .22's?

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Re: Ciener .22 Conversion on a Taurus 1911
« Reply #4 on: September 01, 2009, 12:43:37 AM »
What?  30 y/o 22 shells.  Got some (but will always take more, thank you very much.....).  And I don't use corrosive ammo in my Tok for plinking - I use reloadable S&B.  Soooo, sounds like that Tok is still available??