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Thanks. Thanks a lot. That is five minutes that I can never get back. I thought I was going to learn something useful and all I learned was that some people have waaaaaaaay to much time on their hands.
 
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Thanks. Thanks a lot. That is five minutes that I can never get back. I thought I was going to learn something useful and all I learned was that some people have waaaaaaaay to much time on their hands.
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And now you'll never get the time it took you to post that back. And I won't get the time it took me to post this back. Oh NO! willy_nilly.gif
 
To you guys that wasted time, you did learn something, whenever you see a thread started by Tape, just move along...... I got nothing for you. The question is quite simple, some of you need to grow some thicker skin and most did like you're suppose to do when you answer a thread. This is only a opinion thread and that's it!:rolleyes:
 
I think we can all agree that the term 1911 and 1911A1 technically belong to military contract pistols, regardless of what it says on the side of a commercial pistol.

That said, I don't feel that really has anything to do with how we refer to the pistol and it's various clones and spinoffs.

That said...if we engage in frivolous snarking matches, this one will go the way of the Titanic, so let's keep it at a civil level.
 
It's all meaningless semantics. 99% of the population calls it a 1911 and will continue to do so.... and the smart students will always feel the need to correct them.
 
I disagree with the comment as posted as it makes little to no sense whatsoever, as it is written, to supposedly be persuasive about 1911 pistols.

Looks more like it was written by a drunk who can't type/think at the same time.

You COULD also posit the opinion that NOONE makes a 1911 other than XxXxX manufacturer, as I'm sure someone has in the posts I will not bother to read.
 
I tend to think of them as clones.

just like we are told our AK's are AK clones, M4 clones,FAL clones,AUG clones.
why not 1911 clones.
 
I spent many, many years calling my pistol a Government model. It is a 5" Colt pistol after all.

A few years ago when I joined internet forums and learned folks in the electronic world preferred to call them 1911's. Adapt or die. I adapted.

Of course, I usually call Beretta's pistol the 92FS rather than the M9, and FN/Browning's pistol the Hi-Power rather than the P-35.
 
Most of the time people call them 1911 because the manufacturers call them that. Who wants to say, "look at my awesome government?" Regardless people really do understand the term. Ruger says it is a SR1911, Nighthawk says they make the worlds finest 1911, Wilson, Les, STI any and all call them that. For those that think the only 1911 was made up until 1918 please, at least call it what the people making them call it.
 
Honestly, I did not answer the poll because I do not know, nor do I even care -- whatever is, is and whatever is not, is not.
PERIOD
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Lots of "I don't care" types poking their nose in here to make it known. ;)

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the 1911A1 is a different variation than a straight up 1911, but the A1 is a 1911. So is a series 80. The "A1" is just more specific

It's like calling a K98 a mauser. Yes it's a mauser, and that's a good generic name, but to differentiate it from other mausers you have to add the additional info.

The point only really becomes germane if you are talking specifics like trying to get a flat mainspring housing. in which case you have to describe it as a pre A1 1911 or something like that to make the point clear.
 
This assumes we still name our guns after the year they were made/entered into service. That said, I'm going to take my 1985 to the range tomorrow and look down on the Beretta people and their faux 92s.

/sarcasm
 
I don't have very much to add to this, I just wanted to say that I'm pretty sure that all "1911's" that are in service today are the same ones from WWII. The m45 that the Force Recon Marines use are rebuilt by a master gunsmith... So the 1911A1 from WWII is now an m45. What was once a 1911 is now something else. But it's still a 1911 to me.
 
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