If you were going to buy a higher end 1911, or a higher end shooter of any kind.............?

[TTv2]

Ruger in 10mm. Seriously, if you want to shoot it, you will not not feel too much difference unless you're shooting something that costs 3 grand.

 

[tarosean]

Ruger in 10mm. Seriously, if you want to shoot it, you will not not feel too much difference unless you're shooting something that costs 3 grand.

Ever shot a 3k + handgun?

 

[Coal Dragger]

Probably a Wilson Combat because they have a reputation for holding up to a heavy firing schedule, and I buy guns to shoot them.

 

[tark]

I'd get a Colt 70 because all those other guns are clones they will never be the real deal or as good as a Colt 70 .

You are right about the "real deal" part but dead wrong about the "as good."

 

[tark]

It was just another Browning design that came later.

Browning had almost nothing to do with the Hi-power. He did submit a prototype that was rejected. A frenchman named Dieudonne Saive completed the project with the end result bearing little resemblance to Browning's gun.
Browning died in 1926 nine years before the gun was adopted. He never saw one.

 

[tark]

Ever shot a 3k + handgun?

I shot the one above my name....so....YES! Lol The gun writer put 200 rounds through it. I put 7. One mag. Just to say I had done it.

BTW, to all of you who don't like the hard fit on Les' guns.....all you have to do is ask for a soft fit when you order the gun. Les will do it no charge.......

 

[TTv2]

Ever shot a 3k + handgun?

Nope and I never will.

 

[WVsig]

Nope and I never will.

Then why are you even commenting? You have ZERO experience with high end guns yet you feel that you have valid input on the subject. Makes no sense to me.

 

[Shipwreck]

Then why are you even commenting? You have ZERO experience with high end guns yet you feel that you have valid input on the subject. Makes no sense to me.

Yes, until you actually own a higher end gun, you will never "get it"

After owning two Ed Browns, a Springer Customshop gun, and even 2 Dan Wesson Valors, I just can't buy a standard production 1911 anymore.

 

[Zaydok Allen]

Yes, until you actually own a highet end hun, you will never "get it"

After owning two Ed Browns, a Springer Customshop gun, and even 2 Dan Wesson Valors, I just can't buy a standard production 1911 anymore.

Sounds very similar to whiskey. Once you try Red Breast Whiskey, Jameson is just kind of ok.

 

[tarosean]

After owning two Ed Browns, a Springer Customshop gun, and even 2 Dan Wesson Valors, I just can't buy a standard production 1911 anymore.

and that my friends is the slippery slope.

 

[WVsig]

Yes, until you actually own a highet end hun, you will never "get it"

After owning two Ed Browns, a Springer Customshop gun, and even 2 Dan Wesson Valors, I just can't buy a standard production 1911 anymore.

Sounds very similar to whiskey. Once you try Red Breast Whiskey, Jameson is just kind of ok.

I still buy production Colt 70s as base guns. I also keep 3 or 4 Colts in various stock configurations as points of reference.

One of my best shooting 1911s is a stock 70 reproduction. It is strictly a range gun and the details are not as nice as some of my others but the thing shoots.

When you move to custom guns there is more to it than just how they shoot. Can’t explain it but if you have the means... I highly recommend picking one up.

 

[tarosean]

BTW, to all of you who don't like the hard fit on Les' guns.....all you have to do is ask for a soft fit when you order the gun. Les will do it no charge.......

Its not the hard fit that bugs me about LB, its the oversized frames, the lopped off commander frames, and the sharp edges. A quick rounding of the edges would go a long way! They shoot, dont get me wrong, but there is a reason they cost less than competitors.

 

[TTv2]

Then why are you even commenting? You have ZERO experience with high end guns yet you feel that you have valid input on the subject. Makes no sense to me.

OP gives us the option in the poll of saying all the guns are overpriced and that's my choice.

 

[ATLDave]

OP gives us the option in the poll of saying all the guns are overpriced and that's my choice.

You deem something you’ve never even tried/used to be overpriced? How would you know?

 

[tarosean]

You deem something you’ve never even tried/used to be overpriced? How would you know?

Yet they think nothing of the person making min wage slapping their production gun together. The same as your local fast food joint slapping your burger or fry's together... Even less when you start talking about the imports from a vast majority of the countries.

I am paying a person with skills to do the work I am incapable of doing.. No different than me hiring a plumber, electrician, or other contractor...

My questions are always. How much is your work worth? Should your education/skill set be worth the same as the fry guy, etc.?

 

[Zaydok Allen]

Yeah, I made that an option figuring folks who have shot these guns or some of them at least, would know if these guns are over rated.

I don't think I'd assume a Corvette is over priced, because I've never driven one. I would only assert that I can't afford it.

 

[tarosean]

I would only assert that I can't afford it.

There is nothing wrong with that... However, to denigrate everyone else is a pause for contention.

 

[Zaydok Allen]

Agreed.

 

[Saleen322]

We have a number of actual target pistols; Hammerili, Pardini, FAS, Benelli, High Standard, etc. This assortment includes standard pistols, free pistols, and rapid fire match pistols. Their adjustments and degree of refinement change your whole perception of of what a fine pistol can be. I now have enough experience with high-end guns from owning and competing with them that I now know how much I don't know. I do know this much, every shooter should own at least one precision target pistol. They are that satisfying.

I still find it educational when someone who has little or no experience can tell others what they need in the way of firearms and/or what they should buy. You are getting your pistols out for practice and some "expert" tells you that you wasted money on those fancy guns and all you need is a model 16 Block in 44 Ninja and it will cut bullet holes at 100 yards. As soon as you say, "Wow, could you do a little demonstration?" they either don't have enough time or when they struggle with hitting a silhouette target at 15 yards, it is because of the moon phase or their mom did not fix the oatmeal right or something equally dynamic. But, it is all good! Just my 2-cents.

 

[TTv2]

There is nothing wrong with that... However, to denigrate everyone else is a pause for contention.

I didn't denigrate anyone else. It's just that expensive guns tend to get regulated to safe queen status after the first couple range trips and the OP wants a shooter and something closer to $1000 is going to tick all the boxes and leave the OP with more to spend on something else high end, like a FK BRNO or a Holland & Holland.

 

[tarosean]

I didn't denigrate anyone else. It's just that expensive guns tend to get regulated to safe queen status after the first couple range trips and the OP wants a shooter and something closer to $1000 is going to tick all the boxes and leave the OP with more to spend on something else high end, like a FK BRNO or a Holland & Holland.

I think we can agree that there is quite a disparity
between something like this this






versus what we are talking about here.
One only an elite few in the country can own, the other is not out of reach for a lot of people.


Course here is a 4k safe queen for ya..
Since that how we roll.. Please pass the Grey Poupon.

 

[Shipwreck]

I think we can agree that there is quite a disparity
between something like this this

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versus what we are talking about here.
One only an elite few in the country can own, the other is not out of reach for a lot of people.


Course here is a 4k safe queen for ya..
Since that how we roll.. Please pass the Grey Poupon.

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Is that your T3? Always liked that gun. Sweet shooter too

 

[tark]

Nope and I never will.

Not even if I drive to your place and let you shoot mine?

 

[Zaydok Allen]

Not even if I drive to your place and let you shoot mine?

You can come to my house and let me shoot your guns.

States apart though.