Wilson combat owners....

[TKCastle]

Waiting my 10 days on a WC CQB lightrail and read WC suggest 300-500 roinds of 230 ball for break in. Since Im a reloader and havent bought facotory ammo in years I want to see if other WC owners needed this much ammo to break in their guns. I would much rather buy components and load match grade .45 then spend money on 230 ball. Plus I hate gun shops and the people inside of them.

Thanks in advance.

[WFO_Racer]

Nothing to contribute to your post , but I concur about shops and clientele.

So much so that if I cannot source online I send my wife to procure.

[IVC]

Most "break in" is just about getting reliability out of the gun. If you are shooting at the range and don't care about an occasional FTF or FTE, go ahead with any ammo you like. Just don't judge the gun before you had the recommended number of rounds through it.

It will be fine.

[AFTII]

I never felt the need to break in a WC. Les Baers are TIGHT and loosen up after about 400-500 rounds, but even with the LBs, I never had any major failure issues. (I recall having 2 or 3 failures to feed in my Thunder Ranch with WW Box during the last 50 rounds when the gun was all gummed up. The gun ran flawlessly for the first 450 rounds, but it was difficult to rack the slide.)

My Wilsons were good to go from round one. I doubt you'll have any issues.

[calishine]

Doesn’t really matter, so much that it is match vs ball. Rather, it’s more important that you shoot 300-500 rounds period.

Just mildly oil it as indicated, and shoot the rounds. It will wear and fit itself.

Congrats!

[Black Majik]

Breaking in is breaking in. If you want to break in to WC's guidelines I would just load 3-500 rounds of 230 ball with 5 grains of bullseye and call it a day.

Congrats on the Wilson, that is a great 1911.

[JDMIS300]

Since round 1 my CQB has had no issues. You are overthinking it OP. So long as your reloads are within parameters, you won’t have any issues. Just enjoy the WC and stop worrying.

[RandyD]

I got the same recommendation when I got my gun back from Wilson Combat. I used my reloads, and it ran flawlessly, and still does.

My thought is they recommended factory ball ammo, so that in the event of a problem, they can rule out ammo as causation.

[smak28]

Everything is recommended to have a break-in period up to 500 rounds. It's like a new car, you have a break-in period, but it's totally up to you to hard you want to rev the engine during the break-in period. I've had pistols and long guns that functioned perfectly right off the bat and I've had pistols and long guns that have malfunctioned during the break-in period, but functioned flawlessly after breaking them in. I don't pay attention to what rounds I put through it in the beginning, but if it malfunctioned under 500 rounds, I just kept shooting it and it eventually ran flawlessly (usually before I hit the 500 round mark). I've also ran hotter loads to break-in pistols faster. This is very normal.

[MrFeetZ]

Sorry to get off topic, but im curious; by"clientele", do you mean customers? Im just curious because Ive been a customer of various LGS and I cant think of any earthly reason why I may have offended someone by just being there.

Nothing to contribute to your post , but I concur about shops and clientele.

So much so that if I cannot source online I send my wife to procure.

[Tarmy]

Got mine and followed their builders protocol...figuring they knew what they thought would be best for it...

Like other WC folks have said...they build a special type of shooter...run it wet, shoot the crap out of it...

Flawless is the best word to describe it...shoot the suggested rounds...part of what they don't want is for you to use hollowpoint during the break in...

[Nor*Cal]

Like others have said, doesn't really matter. Just keep it well lubed.

Nice purchase! I have a CQB Elite and its an awesome 1911. Congrats.

[TKCastle]

Thanks for the input gents.

[WFO_Racer]

Sorry to get off topic, but im curious; by"clientele", do you mean customers? Im just curious because Ive been a customer of various LGS and I cant think of any earthly reason why I may have offended someone by just being there.

[Lead Waster]

I think “break in rounds” are more like mulligan rounds. If it malfunctions in the first 500 rounds don’t call them. If round 501 malfunctions, then call them.

Let stuff work itself together and ignore malfunctions during the break in. I’m guessing anything that will work the action will be fine.