madcowburger
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Why, oh why does *every* newly manufactured 1911 clone I see in the shops have (1) a flat mainspring housing, and (2) an elongated, usually skeletonized trigger?
I wear a size Medium glove. I much prefer the regular "short" trigger they *used* to come standard with. The "long" trigger forces me to "monkey grip" the gun, which hurts recoil control, affects shot placement, and can induce stoppages.
Now you have to pay extra and wait months or years for some big name custom pistolsmith (who sits in his office eating and watching soap operas while his gnomes do the work) to replace the long trigger with a short one.
The gun makers seem to assume that everyone who wants a 1911 is six-foot-six and has Sasquatch-like hands that can palm a basketball. Some of us are more like 5'10" and don't. If we had hands like that we wouldn't bother with guns. We'd just wring all our foes' necks, or knock their heads together till all their gold teeth fall out.
And why the reversion to the flat mainspring housing? Early (WW I-era) users found that feature caused the weapon to point low, so it was replaced with the more comfortable and ergonomic curved mainspring housing in the 1911A1 version, which I also prefer, and which also costs a lot of extra money and time to get now, if it can be gotten at all.
And none of them seem to have a lanyard ring/loop. I liked that feature too.
What gives?
MCB
I wear a size Medium glove. I much prefer the regular "short" trigger they *used* to come standard with. The "long" trigger forces me to "monkey grip" the gun, which hurts recoil control, affects shot placement, and can induce stoppages.
Now you have to pay extra and wait months or years for some big name custom pistolsmith (who sits in his office eating and watching soap operas while his gnomes do the work) to replace the long trigger with a short one.
The gun makers seem to assume that everyone who wants a 1911 is six-foot-six and has Sasquatch-like hands that can palm a basketball. Some of us are more like 5'10" and don't. If we had hands like that we wouldn't bother with guns. We'd just wring all our foes' necks, or knock their heads together till all their gold teeth fall out.
And why the reversion to the flat mainspring housing? Early (WW I-era) users found that feature caused the weapon to point low, so it was replaced with the more comfortable and ergonomic curved mainspring housing in the 1911A1 version, which I also prefer, and which also costs a lot of extra money and time to get now, if it can be gotten at all.
And none of them seem to have a lanyard ring/loop. I liked that feature too.
What gives?
MCB