Brand New 1911 horror story!!!

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I would have been heart broken myself. Yeah it's a tool...just a gun...builds character...Whatever! I worked hard to get the money to buy a gun, then it gets scratched up. Now...would I get pissed at my wife? Nope! Like one poster said...she at least went with you to the range! Thats a huge deal! Also..assuming you didn't get cheap when you married her and get a stainless wedding ring..gold should not harm the finish of that gun. Most ladies rings have higher gold content than a mens ring.

With all this said...I would be depressed as well. But..we get over it...eventually! :scrutiny:
 
I put a dent in my wife's car (bumping a cement pillar) when I needed to go back from hospital to home while labor was about to be induced becuase I was nervous. I feel bad but we can laugh about it. So will you.
 
When I read the header for this post I thought it would read "it turned out to be a jam-o-matic"

Just kidding:neener:
 
Quit your whining Princess. You should be so very happy that your wife will even go to the range with you. I have friends that are given grief over their gun-related hobbies, and their wive's would never even fire a gun.
I am so very fortunate that my better half likes shooting and hunting, and also believes that crates of ammo make great end tables in the living room and stairs up to the hay loft.
 
You should be so very happy that your wife will even go to the range with you.
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That sentiment has been mentioned often and that tells us something. My wife lets me buy guns, I feel fortunate, but she knows she will "get" to sell them someday, but she doesn't shoot with me.
 
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With all this said...I would be depressed as well. But..we get over it...eventually! :scrutiny:
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yeah I don't get it. If some people don't care if their possessions get roughed up, fine...but why do they get so offended that others like to keep theirs in near mint condition :confused:
 
So, standing out on the gravel firing line the range master calls "Put your guns on the ground and let the guy behind you set up a malfunction for you to clear".
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Come on, now. I was gentle to it...

:D
 
I agree with Sam, in that I have some "pretty guns," but they aren't the ones I usually carry.

Concerning the pistol that's the subject of this thread, if the gold will rub off - save it. The stuff is getting valuable. :eek:

If it won't rub off and it bugs you, detail strip the pistol and send the frame back to Mr. Brown. He can degrease it and the put it in his Parkerizing tank for about 5 minutes, after which there will be no more ugly marks...

Until you make some... :banghead:

On second thought, don't send it back to Ed Brown. I should have said S. A., but I mixed up two different threads. Must be old age is creeping up on me.
 
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When I read the header for this post I thought it would read "it turned out to be a jam-o-matic"
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I was expecting it to start off about how he got this new $1,000 Kimber....

It's funny. The gun has 3000+ rounds through it now, hundreds of trips in and out of a holster, and plenty of wear marks.

I actually think it looks better now than when it was new
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I would love to see a picture of that gun, pretty please? :D
 
If you care how your gun looks, your priorities are out of order.
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Sorry but IMHO you are way off base with this statement. The OP never said that looks were the most important. He has a brand new gun (his first 1911) and it get buggered up first time out. That just plain sucks. Doesn't mean that is the only reason he got the gun.

Lots of people enjoy the way guns look. Do you think someone who puts nice grips on a 1911 or a Colt SA have their priorities out of line? Lots of tools can also have value in the way they look.

Automobiles serve only one true purpose...to move things. I personaly do not care what my truck looks like. I will run them in the ground and never fix a dent in one. My father on the other hand loves classic cars. His idea of a great afternoon is wiping the same spot on an old car over and over again. Both his and mine will go to the legal speed limit on any street in the country. He has never driven anywhere I could not have. Automobiles are not my thing. They are his though and his priorities are just fine.

Home's only provide shelter. Watches only tell time. My wife made me put up a new mail box a few weeks back. Mail could still fit in the old one, but it was pretty rusty...would you consider her priorities out of wack?
 
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I don't trust a pickup truck that doesn't have dings and scratches in the bed.

Same for a firearm that is safe-queen pristine!
 
Sheesh... all my firearms were purchased to fire. Lots of times. Some I've carried in the field for the past 50 years, they brought a lot of meat home for me and later for me and my family. None of them look new now but they all function flawlessly. If they didn't they'd be gone. Ditto my handguns, they get used because I can't stay reasonably competent with them unless I keep at it. One or two of them look pretty new because they are but they'll get their scars just like I did. I think of my guns about the same way I think of my expensive torque wrench, I use it. It gets dirty and I clean it. Both the wrench and my guns are tools, none are museum pieces. Never could get into the 'collector' thing.
 
There are three Kimber 1911s in my safe. The Dessert Warrior is the only one with a finish I take extra care of. The other two, and the others in my arsenal, are for shooting. Drooling over is still acceptable however.

The first scratch I got on my P229 helped me understand the greater reason I endeavor to be a better marksman: form follows function.
 
I forgot to snap the retention strap on my IWB holster once. I went to get out of my car, and I heard a clattering sound. There, on the ground, was my 5-day old S&W 637. I think I caught the grip against the door frame as I stood up. She fell directly on the back of the grip, where the stock grips leave some of the grip frame exposed. The rough concrete of my driveway left some scars on her, but they smoothed out (never disappeared) over time. I hardly notice them now. When I do, I see them as beauty marks.
 
It would probably irk me too to have an avoidable mark on a new gun. Guns will eventually have wear marks and what-not but if its a specific mark on a gun then its annoying, like those slide stop idiot marks I've made sure to avoid on every 1911.

I usually make sure I take a picture of a new gun before my first range trip since I know it will never look that new again.
 
It's funny. The gun has 3000+ rounds through it now, hundreds of trips in and out of a holster, and plenty of wear marks.

I actually think it looks better now than when it was new
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:what:Dayum! And it was brand new just a few weeks ago? You're my new hero.;)

Crap I gotta get some shooting done.
 
With only a few exceptions, my carry guns have been purchased on the used market, and the finish "broken in :neener:" by a former owner. Mechanics, bore and chamber(s) are perfect, or soon made that way.

If a gun is often carried and fired it's going to show wear. If it's not from neglect or abuse (which in my case it isn't) I see no objection to adding more to what was... ;)
 
It would probably irk me too to have an avoidable mark on a new gun. Guns will eventually have wear marks and what-not but if its a specific mark on a gun then its annoying, like those slide stop idiot marks I've made sure to avoid on every 1911.
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Exactly. Honest wear is one thing, "Oh no!" scratches & dings are another.
I put a mark on a 1952 vintage M1950 Target while cleaning it. It already had a bit of holster wear & a turn ring but I was pretty furious with myself as it was totally avoidable. I see it now every time I open the cylinder. :(

Just because a gun is in good shape doesn't mean the owner is a rookie or that the gun is a safe queen, not that it's really anybody else's business until they post about it on teh intrawebz. :D

If anybody's ashamed to be seen with that 100% '40s vintage K22 I'll be happy to take it off their hands.

As for the OP, I would see marks like that as "normal wear." Stuff happens. Here's one solution... Pearce grip adapter.

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Here's another. ;)

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