9mm 1911.... thoughts?

[ontarget]

PARA ORDINANCE has some great offerings in the 1911 style 9 mm. I bought one for my wife and I end up shooting it more than she does. It is all steel. Good trigger. Just a great gun for the money.

 

[Quentin]

I'm pleased with my Springfield Range Officer Compact 9mm. It's a shorter Officer's size frame with a 4" barrel. I don't like Springfield's mainspring internal lock though. Pictured below with a two piece Nighthawk flat mainspring housing and magwell. Also updated with a Remington short trigger.

If you look closely at the last two pics you can see a standard length 1911 9 round magazine in the short grip. The shorter magazine still fits but you can't slam it in because of the magwell, you have to push it in with a finger.

 

[Karate]

I have a Sig 1911 9mm Officers size and love it

 

[Carl N. Brown]

This is like the other thread's question on getting an AR in .30 Carbine caliber. Why? Well, one might be very familiar with the platform (AR or 1911) and not want to retrain with a different style of gun to use the alternate caliber (.30 Carbine or 9mm).

 

[Ed Ames]

9mm/22tcm combo anyone?

Three.

As far as using them in 9mm mode, it is a bit of an afterthought for me. As in, I tried it with the first gun early on and it worked so I went back to TCM. With the second gun I didn't even try 9mm for almost a year and the gun is now in Parhump (or wherever Armscor USA does repairs) because it will not feed 9mm at all. The third gun (a single stack 4.25" "Rock Ultra") feeds either.

If I just wanted a single stack 9mm 1911 with to-me fancy trimmings I would seriously consider the Rock Ultra 9mm. $560 for a 5" model. The reason I personally wouldn't buy it is that for about $100 more you can get the same gun with both 9mm and .22 TCM barrels/springs, and I'd rather have the combo.

 

[WestKentucky]

Supposedly 9mm is light enough in recoil to make the guns extremely controllable, even in rapid fire scenarios. I would like to give it a shot.