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    Thoughts on 10mm 1911

    Delta Elites cracking is an issue from like the 1980s lol. They made a trivial change to the frame and it went away.
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    Sr1911 10mm question.

    I won't say they CAN'T work but I wouldn't trust them. 10mm mags by every manufacturer I've seen look completely different from their .45 offerings.
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    Thoughts on 10mm 1911

    I got really deep in the weeds with custom 10mm 1911s like 10 years ago and learned some things from talking to various gunsmiths (Dane Burns, Ted Yost): 1) Most factory 10mm 1911s have TOO MUCH recoil spring weight. Realize that the recoil spring doesn't make the recoil force go away, it just...
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    Difference between a Glock and a Jennings, a Rohm and a S&W?

    Making high-stress firearm components out of the zinc alloy that is literally used to make cheap doorknobs and die-cast toy cars is a terrible idea, and isn't even a little bit comparable to Glocks having grip frames made of modern composites with steel inserts and slides made of high-quality...
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    LB EB or WC

    Functionally, they're all essentially the same. Cosmetically Ed Brown is the best of the bunch short of jumping up to the Super Grades from Wilson, which are truly insane $$$. But they all feel pretty different in the hand, which really is probably the most important deciding factor. For me...
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    I need the truth about Speer Gold Dot .45 acp 200 +p performance

    That link about the 200gr +P GD failing wasn't just written by some guy on the internet; Dr Gary Roberts is an expert in the field who evaluates ammo for a living for the military and law enforcement. That's not to say that he's infallible, but he has A LOT more credibility than some random...
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    What got the M9 chosen for the US military?

    The M9 and P226 both passed all the test and both have aluminum frames.
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    Does thumb safety of m&p's affect trigger pull

    I've never heard of any kind of thumb safety affecting trigger pull.
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    Ex cop/currently works in morgue

    A-hahahahahahahahahaha, no. Those books are complete garbage. They're the rodeo clowns of terminal ballistics.
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    How Many Carry a 1911 with FMJ Ammo?

    Unfortunately it looks like human intelligence hasn't. None of what you've said is actually, you know, TRUE. HINT: The Geneva Conventions aren't the treaties that banned expanding bullets, it was the Hague Conventions of 1899, which predate the Luger P08 by almost a decade.
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    Best 1911 magazine??

    This just goes to show how no 2 1911s are really alike. In my guns they were some of the worst magazines I'd ever seen, but lots of people have great luck with them in their guns.
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    Best 1911 magazine??

    I can't speak to the 8 rounders, but I have Ed Brown and Checkmate 7 rounders side-by-side and they are clearly NOT the same magazine. The Ed Brown magazine body is made of heavier steel than the Checkmate, has slightly different feed lips and a coated follower instead of bare steel. If...
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    Best 1911 magazine??

    The truth is that because no 2 companies making 1911s really make them to the same specs, there isn't one right answer. It's not like 1 gun made by 1 company to 1 set of specs with 1 magazine designed to match like a Glock. The cheapest consistently reliable magazine in my experience is...
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    Caspian custom 1911 value?

    Look under the grip panels, a lot of gunsmiths put their mark there.
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    the best 1911 for me

    $1,500 is sneaking up on Baer territory, and you can easily get a single stack STI for that money.
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