stretcharmstrong
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- Jan 9, 2003
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If you were willing to spend as much for the Loaded but liked the feel/appearance of the mil-spec, why not just get the mil-spec and put the $100 towards a trigger job if it doesn't start to smooth out? I'm sure the trigger will smooth out quite a bit w/use. You may want to try and handle a couple different mil-spec's and see if one might have a slightly better trigger out of the box. If you find one w/a better trigger, put the money saved towards some nice grips.
As far as making the grip feel a little bigger, on my Kimber I was going to do one of 2 things. I started w/the cheaper and that was added Pierce rubber finger grooves (that work w/my existing grips) to the frontstrap. Worked great so I didn't do the second. I notice much better control of the pistol and felt recoil is less. The second, which I think is better looking, would be to add an arched mainspring housing. I got the idea from handling a Springfield mil-spec 1911-A1, where it comes standard.
As far as making the grip feel a little bigger, on my Kimber I was going to do one of 2 things. I started w/the cheaper and that was added Pierce rubber finger grooves (that work w/my existing grips) to the frontstrap. Worked great so I didn't do the second. I notice much better control of the pistol and felt recoil is less. The second, which I think is better looking, would be to add an arched mainspring housing. I got the idea from handling a Springfield mil-spec 1911-A1, where it comes standard.