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I’m show the issue tonight, colt vs WC magsMark_Mark
Sorry to hear that.
I don't know what to tell you but I have had many Colt 1911s over the years and have yet to have a bad factory mag in any of them.
I’m show the issue tonight, colt vs WC magsMark_Mark
Sorry to hear that.
I don't know what to tell you but I have had many Colt 1911s over the years and have yet to have a bad factory mag in any of them.
GREAT STORY!!!I've long thought the Colt model 1903 is as close to the perfect handgun as has ever been created. But I've never really been able to like or enjoy the 1911.
My introduction to pistols was when I was in second or third grade when I took a 1911 that had followed my dad home from his four year all expenses paid Mediterranean, North African, Italian and Persian Gulf safari. I took the big old slabside and one round to school for show and tell and to tell the safety lessons I'd learned and that dad said all kids should know. It was big and heavy and rattled and from an adult perspective it had probably been rebuilt a brazillion times with pieces parts what was available. But it was my Dad's. Anyway, the teacher liked my show and tell and even had me go to other classes for their show-n-tell. That day it got passed around the room and every kid got to hold it and see how heavy it was and how big the bullet was and only one boy tried a pew-pew and got scolded by the teacher for breaking the safety rules I had just listed.
Time passed and I grew up and when I was in my 40s eventually bought a 1911 of my own, a series 80. It never felt like that old memory from long ago and it was super tight and never rattled like that old 1911 (it was so loose it would rattle when wrapped in two socks and put in the back of the drawer).
It went to a forever home.
Later I bought a pre-CZ Dan Wesson custom Pointman/Patriot. It was beautiful and super accurate but just again never felt right.
So it went to a forever home.
I always loved the round and had lots of 45acp wheelies from Colt and S&W and while I was living in Phoenix in the 1960s carried one of my S&W Brazilian Contract 1917s in a Hunter holster when I wandered in the desert or Superstitions. They are all still with me.
But I still felt somewhat tainted because I really should like the 1911.
SDS Imports is bringing in a Turkish (Tisas made) 1911A1 that they say is built to the wartime specs and it was selling for under $400.00 and was just an old slabside with no rail and no real sights and no skeleton trigger or hammer and no fancy grips and ... well, nothing but what my dad would have been issued on his safari.
For a couple years I looked at reviews and put one in the basket to check out but never pulled the trigger. Until a couple days ago.
It wasn't under $400.00 but it wasn't much over $400.00 either. Yesterday I picked it up and it came home with me. It wasn't in the cardboard box in the reviews but rather a plastic clamshell case. And it had two magazines rather than just one. And the magazines were from Check-Mate. And it's plain. It doesn't rattle but it does feel just like my memories of the thing dad brought home. I also still had a couple Mec-Gar 1911 magazines that somehow didn't go with the DW. I still have a couple boxes or 45acp ball and a whole bunch of 45acp in moon clips I can de-moon if needed.
I pulled it apart and checked inside and everything is well machined, the feed ramp polished. I lubed it up with Rem Oil and will try to get to the range this weekend to do function check.
So far though I'm pleased. I also found I had a full box of Triton Hi-Vel +P JHPs so if I decide to carry it I should be set.
Took the new to me SDS Import Tisas GI 1911 to the range for a function test before the heat set in. I wasn't shooting for accuracy but just seeing if it would feed reliably, toss reliably and go bang. Ran 56 rounds of old UMC ball and used four magazines, the two Check-Mate that came with the gun and a couple Mec-Gar with no dimple that I had laying around. Ran one magazine of each make of the old Triton +P JHP to see if it ded. Ran flawlessly. No failure to feed, no failure to fire, no failure to eject. Cleanup when I got home was easy. Only real issues is that some of the detente springs are still a bear. That should ease up with use.
Who knows. I might actually like this one.
And the teacher just put it in her desk drawer because it was too heavy for me to carry around; no lock, not monitored and let kids come to hold it or just look at it.GREAT STORY!!!
I can’t believe you bought a 1911 to school and passed it around. WOW!
I like my 1911A1, super low profile sights, and cool reto trigger. I bought the black one but, I want to get ahold of the green brown one.
I heard about those times!And the teacher just put it in her desk drawer because it was too heavy for me to carry around; no lock, not monitored and let kids come to hold it or just look at it.
It was a different time.
Since Colt hasn't made 1911 mags since probably the 1970's, you're getting a contract mag, and it could be almost anything.I don't know what to tell you but I have had many Colt 1911s over the years and have yet to have a bad factory mag in any of them.
yeah, that A2 beavertail is short. I guess men had leather hands back then. I’m going to save up for a Colt Classic nextI had an sds for a while, sold it because I kept getting hammer bite. I found the gun to be underwhelming and not super reliable. Replaced it with a rock island
Just for clarity, not all grip safeties are beavertail grip safeties. Your gun, at least the one in the pictures, does not have a beavertail grip safety.yeah, that A2 beavertail is short. I guess men had leather hands back then.
ooooh yeah! looks nice!
I would pick on up! the upgrade models are ever better if your into ambi, rails, and crisper trigger. and only in the $500 range too. Good valueI shot a tisas a few weeks ago for a standard model 1911 it shot very well having carried a 45 S&W 4506 for 25 years I give it a 4.5 on a scale of 5 for accuracy and fit/finish for 20 yard backyard shooting. I am probably gonna buy one myself.
ooooh yeah! looks nice!
what mag you using? I had a thread on 47D’s vs. ETM’s but a really mean guy got it shut down.
NICE! I want to get the full blow Rail model and put a light on it. Do like a Classic A1 next to a Gucci Cheap 1911 !It came with two Check-Mate mags and I had a couple Mec-Gar mags from my prior 1911 venture as well as an Ed Brown. So far up to somewhere at 200+ rounds through it now and zero failure to feed, zero failure to fire and zero failure to eject using really old (20 + years) UMC and RP head stamp 230gr ball as well as RP head stamp 185gr JHP and Triton 185gr Hi-Vel +p JHP.
I have a Commander size enhanced one on order but without a rail. No rails on any of my handguns if I can avoid it.
Personally I never want a light on my firearm.NICE! I want to get the full blow Rail model and put a light on it. Do like a Classic A1 next to a Gucci Cheap 1911 !
Program Alexa to go into “Home defense” Mode! love it, random music and lights and blender. Attacker will be like : Heck with this place!Personally I never want a light on my firearm.
At home I want to be able to remotely control what is lit and what is dark. Alexa and smart lights allows me to do that. I seldom go out after dark and if I do I have a small powerful led light I can hold away from my body so I'm not simply providing the best possible point of aim for an attacker. The same reasoning applies to a laser pointer on my firearm.
Remember, I am never going to try to detain anyone and any firearm use is a last resort. Flight rather than fight.
You'll find the CheckMate and Ed Brown mags very similar, since they are all made by CheckMate.It came with two Check-Mate mags ... as well as an Ed Brown.
Yup.You'll find the CheckMate and Ed Brown mags very similar, since they are all made by CheckMate.