My world ended today.

[Mudcat]

I'm just relieved that nothing bad happened to your son.  The title & 1st sentence caused my heart to drop.

Wish him good luck on his Master quest!


NRA Life Member
SAF Life Member
GRRN Supporter

Thanks and I will pass along the well wishes.
Nothing bad! Well you.... Lol
I just tried to catch people's attention, I don't have much luck getting anyone to post on here. This worked pretty well.
We need more posts here there is a lot of knowledge with the members.


---
I am here: http://tapatalk.com/map.php?qpzjg0
Sent from my evil black iPhone using Tapatalk

[Kevin]

1911's? Well, sure, if you like all that new fangled semi-auto slide thingy gizmo's... I say, if six rounds was good enough for Samuel Colt, well by gum, it's good enough for me!!! If it ain't a wheel gun, it ain't a real gun!!! Give me a gun that doesn't leave an integral part of the machine lying around every time I reload! ...dadgummednewfangledgeewizzgizmocrap....mumble...murmer...
-Kevin, snuggled up to a model 15-2 as we speak...

[Mudcat]

1911's? Well, sure, if you like all that new fangled semi-auto slide thingy gizmo's... I say, if six rounds was good enough for Samuel Colt, well by gum, it's good enough for me!!! If it ain't a wheel gun, it ain't a real gun!!! Give me a gun that doesn't leave an integral part of the machine lying around every time I reload! ...dadgummednewfangledgeewizzgizmocrap....mumble...murmer...
-Kevin, snuggled up to a model 15-2 as we speak...

Funny, thanks for the laugh.

[MasAyoob]

And some of us remember when we were twelve, and admitted to our father that we'd rather have a .45 automatic than a .38 revolver, and our father looked at us and shook his head as if to say, "Well, at least the kid ain't addicted to drugs or nothin'..."

...Or at least, ONE of us remembers that...

best,
Mas

[CR Williams]

I think 1911s got a bad rap during a time when everybody was pushing accuracy and higher scores in competition more than they cared about it going bang and dropping bad guys along the sidewalk. Coming out of WWII, as I understand it went, 1911s were quite reliable and worked well but maybe weren't good for overlapping holes every time you shot one. What it looks like to me is that at some point in the 70s or 80s somebody started wanting lots of A-zone hits and so the gunsmiths started tightening things up. And they got the accuracy but went too far in the tolerances to allow for the military-level reliability any more. In the last decade or thereabouts I have seen two developments, one being pretty accurate 1911s with acceptable reliability, the other being a number of what I'll call 'commercial mil-spec' 1911s being developed and sold by major manufacturers. This seems to be a Good Thing to me, again for two reasons: You get more options that are reliable enough for carry, and you get pricing levels that don't make you leave the 1911 in the safe because you then might have to shoot someone with it which would get it confiscated and held by the police for who knows how long under who knows what conditions.

What's not to like about that?

[Bob Mayne]

Well said CR. the only 2 reasons I don't own several 1911's is #1, weight. Fully loaded they're just too damn heavy (the 5" and 4" versions) and #2, I dont reload and the ammo is too expensive (.45acp) for me to buy considering how much I like to shoot.

[Devereaux]

Well, now, THERE'S your problem, Bob. You need to reload.

Just talk to Dillon or Brian Enos about a 650 and you're all set. Then you, too, can be a 1911 owner!