.50 Gi 1911

[GoRon]

Anyone else heard of this?

It's made by Guncrafter Industries. It's made in a standard 1911 configuration with "commonality of all conventional M1911 parts and accessory items except for those that are specific to the dimensions of a .50 cal. load"

Here is a link to the website,

http://www.guncrafterindustries.com/

 

[BlkHawk73]

this was the topic of a lot of discussion all over the various firearm forums last year after SHOT. Haven't heard anything else since. Never eaven heard of anyone buying or even seeing one.

 

[GoRon]

A search didn't turn up anything obvious here at THR.

Aparently the two guys who put this company and gun together are former Wilson Combat guys.

I picked up a magazine called "The Complete Book Of The 1911" and there is an article about it. I was surprised that I didn't see anything about here at THR.

It isn't a magnum type round, the tester said it was comparable to 45acp hardball in recoil.

 

[larryw]

Part of the trick with searches is figuring out what to use as the search term. Try "guncrafter" for quite a bit of info here.

Don't know how they do it, but for only a .05" increase in barrel diameter, that pipe sure looks BIG when looking down the wrong end...

 

[BluesBear]

It was discussed a lot in here last year.

Here's a thread with reference to all of the other threads.

 

[GoRon]

Thanks BluesBear, I found all the threads last night.

Seems nobody has had a chance to shoot one.

Just a little pricey for most folks (me included) I suspect.

 

[why_me]

$3000 Novelty gun

Very much not worth it.
Unless your a millionaire