[bigjimbo]

I finally bought myself a 1911. I bought this today at the Orlando Gun Show for $430 OTD.

Looks clean and lightly used other than a few surface scratches...

The joys of going to the fun show looking for rifle optics and spending your loot on something else.

Springfield 1911-A1 .45 with 2 mags

[KC&97TA]

Welcome to the 1911 sick-ness :uhoh:

Darn nice gun for $430

Now you will be looking for a; Commander or 4" version, a 9mm and may even venture off into a 40S&W or 10mm and soon there after you will find yourself wanting a 1911 custom or a race gun.

My sick-ness began with a Colt 1911, sold.

I'm in love with my Kimber TLE

Then ventured into a SA GI that was intended to be a 'perfect clone to a MEUSOC' latter sold to a buddy who is issued a 'MEUSOC .45'

Then bought a 4" SA Mil-Spec Champion, will never part with her all gunsmithing work done by me.

Next a SA Mil-Spec that was build into a NRA Hard Ball .45

... and now I'm craveing a 9mm 1911 either a STI or Kimber or SA, haven't decided which

Future plans call for a 10mm and a 40S&W barrel.

[jrfoxx]

That sounds like a very good deal to me.Good job.i relly like the looks of those too.I wouldnt mind getting another (would be my 3rd) 1911, this time in stainless.They just look really slick...

[Dorryn]

I considered getting a 1911 once. Then I noticed it had a grip safety. Sorry, never ever gonna get a 1911. But yours looks sweet nonetheless. :)

[GunnySkox]

Why no love for the grip safety, dorryn?

~GnSx

[Walkalong]

Nice gun, great deal.

[Walkalong]

Why no love for the grip safety, dorryn?


Yea, why?

[Ala Dan]

Springer 1911's are hard too beat~!;) :cool: :D

[Dorryn]

Ugh, its distracting. I dont need anything distracting me from my real concern... trigger control and sight picture. If I have to stop and spend my time considering if i have enough pressure on the upper portion of the grip to engage it, its time lost. I very often maintain pressure with my ring and pinkie fingers alone, with partial pressure from the middle finger. I do not always apply enough to engage a grip safety in a 1911.

In addition, every safety a gun has detracts from its main function: To fire a bullet.

I was told once that the 1911 design was created for cavalry troops who kept it on a lanyard. If it was dropped it would stay attached to the cord but would not fire even if it impacted the ground because the grip safety wasnt engaged. While I dont know about the veracity of that story, I do know that I do not shoot firearms while riding a horse, indeed do not even ride horses, and I do not in any way need the "protection" of a grip safety device.

[shaggycat]

Well Dorryn, while I may not share your complaints about the grip safety, here you go. Now buy a 1911!

Take a look at the Novak One Piece Back Strap.

http://www.novaksights.com/what's_new.htm

[treebeard]

Congrats on the 1911. I hope you enjoy it. You will want another one soon.

[bigjimbo]

Thanks all, I thought a got a good deal on it too. I saw one of the "bigger" guys selling new SA 1911 GI's for 499...so I told the guy I bought it from to give me a deal I cant refuse.. $400 + tax. DONE.

[El Tejon]

You can always pin the grip safety. When I was a kid in the early '80s, disabling the grip safety was the "in thing" to do.

We also wore onions on our belts and took the ferry to Shelbyville which in those days was called East Odgenville and we called nickels "bees" . . . .:D

[never_summer]

nice, i just bought a kimber custom II 9mm for 1200 haha and that looks like a very good deal. I dont really like 45's and needed a target gun, hope you like your 1911 (this is my first one too)

[CU74]

As do many others in the John Moses Browning Masterpiece Club, I cannot understand the objection some folks have to the grip safety. To me, it is a logical and functional safeguard that is automatically operated when one grips and aims the firearm. I know it can be disabled, but I see no need to - I am quite comfortable knowing my 1911A1 is "safe" until I have it properly gripped in my hand and I am ready to fire it. Frankly, I find the grip safety to be just one more example of John Browning's genius in firearms design.