So many 1911's

BatteryOaksBilly said:
Millie will be here this week end for 1911 shooting. The First thing I will show her is that limp wristing the 1911 will do Nothing or cause Anything to happen. This is easily shown by shooting any one of a dozen or so in 9mm and 45 holding only with 2 fingers. Then I turn the gun upside down and repeat. Thumb and middle finger only on the gun. NOW if you try this with short slide guns, from Commanders down to the 3 inchers, you can have a problem. The Original Design is meant to shoot any way you pull the trigger with the thumb safety[which was an add on, not on Browning's original submission] depressed and the grip safety down. John was perfectly content that any cavalry trooper could handle his gun safely with only the grip safety. The Military didn't have the same confidence, hence the thumb safety.
The entire dynamic of functioning changes when the slide is shortened. Not getting into that....
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I'm hoping for lots of 1911 9mm wisdom from this visit. I got "issues"....lol.
 
Millie said:
I'm hoping for lots of 1911 9mm wisdom from this visit. I got "issues"....lol.
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Millie, all knowledge does Not flow from this fountain. I have owned multiple hundreds of the ole slabside. If you handle something for 50+ years and hundreds of examples and don't learn a little....well, I have a rope hanging from one of our great oaks for those folks. Visitors ask...What the heck is that rope in that tree for??? Answer...sometimes they won't listen.....
 
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LOVE my Sigs. One of them is always on me if I'm not at work, the other only leaves my nightstand safe for practice, cleaning and lubrication. Out of the box there are a lot of features you'd be paying a lot more for with other companies, and I've had zero problems with these guns. Everybody I know that owns a Sig 1911 is in love as well. I don't hear that about many other company's 1911s with a couple exceptions.
 
BatteryOaksBilly said:
Millie will be here this week end for 1911 shooting. The First thing I will show her is that limp wristing the 1911 will do Nothing or cause Anything to happen.
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Good fer you!

Millie, stick with this feller! Ignore the rest of us'n.
 
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vaskeet said:
I could not get your link to work but the difference between the tactical and the ultra or TAC II is Mag well , fiber front sight, adjustable rear sights, grooved front strap and the G10 grips
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So yeah I guess all that stuff is worth another $130. Although I have a set of nice VZ grips already for a 5" 1911

The nicest 'front strap' treatment that I have had on a gun that I actually carried is the Pearce grip sleeve with finger grooves that goes under the grips and around the front strap. It was less grippy than a set of Hogues or Pachmayrs that had the sleeve integrated and it let me choose whichever grips that I wanted to use. And even though I normally hate finger grooves on a handgun, these were perfect. But it being rubber, it probably retains moisture so don't put it on your $3000 Barbecue gun. But for a Rock Island Armscory it's perfect

https://www.amazon.com/Pearce-Grips-Rubber-Government-Equivalents/dp/B0002INNYU
 
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degenerateJEFF said:
LOVE my Sigs. One of them is always on me if I'm not at work, the other only leaves my nightstand safe for practice, cleaning and lubrication. Out of the box there are a lot of features you'd be paying a lot more for with other companies, and I've had zero problems with these guns. Everybody I know that owns a Sig 1911 is in love as well. I don't hear that about many other company's 1911s with a couple exceptions.
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I have one of the first-gen, early SN SIGs. I had to send it back as the slide rails weren't to spec, but when I got it back it ran like a raped ape. And of all the sub-$1,500 1911s I have/had, best out-of-the-box trigger.

I shot LAV's Wilson 9mm 1911 in one of his pistol classes, to this day the best pistol I ever shot. I would give my third nut to have one.
 
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BatteryOaksBilly said:
I certainly won't argue that. I have a few P35s. They were my choice for steel frame 9 MMs. I still love em but I have become a recent convert to the CZ 75 platform.
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If I weren't so heavily invested in BHPs, I would have a few CZ 75s.
 
BatteryOaksBilly said:
the thumb safety[which was an add on, not on Browning's original submission] depressed and the grip safety down. John was perfectly content that any cavalry trooper could handle his gun safely with only the grip safety. The Military didn't have the same confidence, hence the thumb safety.
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Thank you sir. I've relayed this to guys who love the platform and they just look at me with that confused sideways dog-look. o_O
And I'm not even a "1911 guy".
 
MacEntyre said:
What he said...



...I am notorious for purchasing a vintage, unfired gun and immediately taking it to the range. :eek:
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There will be a special place (range) in heaven for you. Does any smith or company design a gun that isn’t meant to be shot? I think not. Now maybe you don’t take your $10k custom 1911 to the local mud run/shooting competiton, but it was meant to be shot.
 
CZfool68 said:
There will be a special place (range) in heaven for you. Does any smith or company design a gun that isn’t meant to be shot? I think not. Now maybe you don’t take your $10k custom 1911 to the local mud run/shooting competiton, but it was meant to be shot.
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For 10k it'd better be able to handle mud runs, grime, thousands of rounds and a whole lot of @$$ sweat, because it's not leaving my side.
[Someday that will be me with a Republic Arms 1911, granted that will be when I return to Wyoming and can open carry a long slide 1911 without issue.]
 
degenerateJEFF said:
For 10k it'd better be able to handle mud runs, grime, thousands of rounds and a whole lot of @$$ sweat, because it's not leaving my side.
[Someday that will be me with a Republic Arms 1911, granted that will be when I return to Wyoming and can open carry a long slide 1911 without issue.]
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I've carried a full size 1911 with a 10 round mag on several occasions with no issues in NC.
 
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