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NMEDGE
Guest
I think there will always be a place for the 1911. Now the question is will the "new" generation accept the platform.
Ayoob: Is It Time to Retire the 1911?
- Thread starter Mike H.
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Unless he is stricken with some debilitating disease{God forbid!} I look for Mas to die with his boots on, doing what he does best... Shooting and writing...
Bassbob
Emissary
And advertising for carry insurance lawyers.
PaulieDC
Elite
Except mine!Retire it! In all it's forms! And all your 1911's are belonga MEEEE!!!
PaulieDC
Elite
They can’t even accept a five-day work week, everything else doesn’t even have a chance.
I too carried a .45 ACP for many years for work from Colt 1911 to FN-45 tactical and wanted to actually give-in and get a 9mm range pistol, but found I still wanted metal over polymer this time. And damn ended up with a Beretta that weighs well over three pounds empty with brake and optic and is all carbon steel (looks like SS, but ain't). Is a DA/SA per say, but lacks a de-cocker enlieu of a cock and lock feature on the frame. But it does shoot 9mm and appears I am an ugly American stuck in the past. Oh wait, this is the "new" model and they have a few SA only with a de-cocker and I am getting confused... Guess I will stay with the hammer so I can keep up...
I like a hammer. And a decocker w/double action availability when possible. However, the single action "cocked and locked" over a loaded chamber works for me as well. I really do not like or really trust these new-style no-safety designs based on the Glock- as accidents-in-waiting. Deal with the plastic I can- the lack of a positive safety-lock or even a grip-safety really bothers me... I have long since learned to sweep off the safety on the 1911 and BHP while drawing, it is a non-existent "problem".
Retire the 1911? Not hardly.
This is an old picture. I now have more.
My EDC. 1959 Colt Commander .45.
impressive lineup Gfox!
Johnny Yuma
Elite
I think I have already retired the 1911. Still carry 45ACP, in a more modern form.
Sig P220. Safety, We dont need no stinking safety!
Sig P220. Safety, We dont need no stinking safety!
Hmm had a 220 back in 1996 and never really warmed up to it and ended with the H&K USP, in God's caliber of course... As for a safety? Had a de-cocker, but no safety other than my finger and DA first...
last2brake
Custom
From my place of ignorance having held a 1911 but never shooting it, I like the straight-forward simplicity of the 1911, but I'm curious about the devotees.
Curious enough to buy one, but since I've just inherited a bunch of guns ( around ten rifles and maybe even ten pistols ) and I'm sure I'll hear how I don't need one. But she just bought me a .44 mag pistol. Hard to figure what the moral of the story is.
What's that thing about asking for forgiveness instead of permission ?
Curious enough to buy one, but since I've just inherited a bunch of guns ( around ten rifles and maybe even ten pistols ) and I'm sure I'll hear how I don't need one. But she just bought me a .44 mag pistol. Hard to figure what the moral of the story is.
What's that thing about asking for forgiveness instead of permission ?