How to Modify the Grip Safety on a 1911 Pistol

Thx for the helpful info.!!!!!

Awesome info Bro!!!

Good video Doctor. : )

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Thanks

great video. I was wanting to decrease the distance the grip safety needed to be pushed to disengage it. Got my 1911 to work perfectly. thanks!!

Thanks for the excellent video and explanation.

Dude this video is great thank you so much. i've been struggling with the same thing with my RIA 9mm. Ima give this a shot and i'll keep you posted. I hope it does the job. First grip safety issues ive had out of my like 5 1911. crossing fingers.

might also be a stiff leaf spring, so keep that in mind too. thanks

Thanks video helped a lot! I adjusted my trigger to take up all the pre-travel and my grip safety wouldn't engage. Video showed me how t fix it 

I love your video. You seem very knowledgeable.This is great how you walk us through to make sure you show every particular.I'm a new subscriber!

Good job! Very educational video on the grip safety job. I've seen a lotta guys pin the grip safety, you ever do that.. Do you have a video on pinning it..?

Haha oops, ground it too far, now it's disabled. Oh well, I never liked the grip safety anyway.

You don't need the grip safety for USPSA competition, so your statement about needing the safety for competition is incorrect.  You only need one operational safety for competition, which will be your thumb safety.  Pin the grip safety so you never have to worry about it.

Good vid,Man. I learned quite a bit from it. That is a nice pistol. The slide sounds super-smooth. It definitely has some charachter.

Very good video.  I was putting a new short Wilson trigger in, and the results were a grip safety which stuck IN and wouldn't return to its normal position without removing the thumb safety pin and resetting everything.  The cure was to learn how the grip safety worked, which I had no idea, and following the same process which you demonstrated.  I am back in business with the new trigger, thank you.

Files cut in one direction only and you were filing the grip safety backwards, you push a file not pull.

Files & sandpaper ... what ever happened to the days where even hobby gunsmiths knew how to use stones ???

thank you so much for this video....it was immensely helpful

great easy to understand instructions

Very informative, thanks m8.

Thanks for an awesome video. This is just what I need to do to my new Kimber ProCarry.

Now my problem is solved...thanks for your video sir..

I put a new trigger and grip safety in my 1911 now I tried to put my old one in and it's not firing but when I put new one back it works fine do you think the trigger bar is to big?

very good thank you. My grip safety takes a very awkward grip to disengage it and it is my EDC piece. This may help.

Good instructional video. Thanks.

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Excellent video and info. I bought my first 1911, a satin nickel Colt Combat Commander, in 1982. I just bought my latest, an SA 4.25 Ronin Operator in 9mm. I'm going to run a bunch of rounds through it, then send it back to SA for a full Cerakoting.

Thank you for an easy to follow, great modification. I did exactly as you described on my DW Valor and it now works perfect. Take care, Michael

thanks for this video which was just what I was looking for. All my 1911's were breaking only when grip safety was fully depressed. They are supposed to break at about 50 % depressed. I am adjusting all of them. I'd rather actually have a grip safety that breaks when I touch and grab it.

Thank you very much for this video. You saved me a lot......... of Tylenol. Carefully, filing & polishing the part of the grip receiver you pointed out worked like a charm. Awesome shirt btw!

Thank you very much. My Auto Ordnance needed to be depressed almost 90% of the way before the hammer could drop. Now, it works much more reliably after filing down the right part of the grip safety.