I have a Kimber with a red lazer built in.
At a reasonable distance I put a hollow point on that dot.
Love my Kimber
I needn't say more.
The M-2 Browning for one.
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My DA revolver.
Please, a 1911 needs tools to disassemble? Lost me right there. Anyone that one and cannot field strip a 1911 in 20 seconds flat with their bare hands has no business owning one.
It needs tools to disassemble. Maybe if you consider a paper clip a 'tool'. You can detail strip a 1911 quite handily with nothing but your hands and a paper clip.
It has unreliable magazines. Define 'unreliable'.
It is finicky about ammo. Maybe at one time it was. Mine eats everthing from 230 gr ball to 185 grain hp's without so much as a hiccup.
And, as a single-action pistol, it is unsafe for 95% of its users to carry. Really. Does this author mean that 95% of the people who carried this weapon for almost 6 decades were in mortal peril? If he does, he's a fool.
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For the new “I want it now kids of today” the premise is viable. In the hands of the fully trained a 1911 is dangerous.
The SA gun use I think will go down with us old folks, as well as any notion of freedom.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jl-ZIo-Wztc
The author is wrong. The 1911 is the epitomy of pistol design and mechanics. It was tried and tested through two World Wars and numerous smaller ones and remains the best choice for reliability and sheer stopping power. I keep mine ready in my bed stand at night in the event that an intruder might one day break in and threaten me and my family. I wouldn’t have anything else.
I consider the 1911 design sure as old school, but so is a 1958 Corvette.
I own a Chevy truck with a 496 cubic inch technological monster that requires me to have state of the art diagnostic equipment just to find a problem.
The older Corvette I can fix without a manual, without anything other than a timing light or even a dwell meter.
Yes its classic, but it can work, doesn’t mean that something trying to emulate it cannot work better. I would trade my left nut for a customized Kimber, but I am absolutely happy with my Sig Sauer P220 .45acp.
I have Thompson .45acp built to the Colt 1911 design, shoots crappy with loose rails, the barrel lockup is wobbly and a single stack mag grip feels wrong in my hands, but it has a place. I love fat double stack mag grips, yes I know my Sig is single stack but I have aftermarket grips on it.
About the only thing I really hate on the 1911 style re-assembly is trying to compress that darn non-captive spring, someday I will convert mine.
Para-Ordnance 45 Big Hawg 14+1 works quite well for me and I've had no problems. Things have changed a lot over the years, materials get better, machining is down to a gnats ass and ammo has gotten far better. If you've got a great design, why change it?
IIRC, John M. Browning designed the Hi-Power to improve on the M1911.
Yes, the 1911 is an old design, but I have an affinity for old firearms.
I own a 1911 variant. It is picky about feeding some hollow-points. It wouldn’t feed anything but FMJ until I took some super fine emery cloth to the feed ramp. That, in addition to buying good quality magazines, took care of 95% of feeding issues. Golden Sabers seem to feed best of all hollow point ammo I’ve run through it.
I have a few original 1911 Colts, they have served in 2 wars, and a number of brushfires. As with ALL things mechanical, parts need to be replaced after extensive use, or wear. Any one of these would serve reliably in the personal defense role.
Are they accurate? Depending on your criteria of 'accurate. If you want a five-shot-one-hole-at-50yards-offhand-in-the-wind-on-a-foggy-day, these aren't the weapons you want. But if you want something that will work EVERY time, in a space of CQB, then I have it.
The 1911 is not for everyone, it never has been. But, if you take the time and energy to learn it's limitations and strengths, the time to learn the balance of absolute reliability over extreme accuracy, it is a system that could last another 100 years, where newer designs can only dream of that kind of pedigree.
Model 1894 Winchester (also a John Browing design).
And the 1896 Marlin.
Winchester Model 12 (only 98 years old, but close enough). Also a John Browing design. I'm sure there's more.
bogus....
my 1943 Remington Rand, eats whatever I give it...its trigger pull is superior to any striker fired toy guns....and it comes in a caliber meant to kill people, not small game.
The author must’ve taken alot of bad advice.