SUPERMAN .45
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Colt NRM or Para Ordnance are my choice.
Most reliable new American-made 1911?
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MICHAEL T
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Nrm Colt
My first one was a DCM gun my folks bought from the original purchaser for $25 bucks and gave to me for Christmas, 1962. Have had a few more since then.
Sprung for an SA stainless mil-spec a year or so ago; now have about 850 rounds of my RNL handloads through it and it has been a good gun. Reliable, decent trigger, accurate. Anything can break but right now this one looks like a winner.
In contrast I recently sent a polymer-framed .45 ACP that allegedly never acts up back to the mfr. After 1200 plus rounds and one trip in for factory voodoo it still averaged 32 rds between malfunctions. The factory will destroy it and replace it with a new one--which I intend to sell NIB and try to forget.
I too miss the old GI pistols, but without a time machine with heavy lifting capability those days are gone. The SA has met my stringent expectations thus far.
Sprung for an SA stainless mil-spec a year or so ago; now have about 850 rounds of my RNL handloads through it and it has been a good gun. Reliable, decent trigger, accurate. Anything can break but right now this one looks like a winner.
In contrast I recently sent a polymer-framed .45 ACP that allegedly never acts up back to the mfr. After 1200 plus rounds and one trip in for factory voodoo it still averaged 32 rds between malfunctions. The factory will destroy it and replace it with a new one--which I intend to sell NIB and try to forget.
I too miss the old GI pistols, but without a time machine with heavy lifting capability those days are gone. The SA has met my stringent expectations thus far.
Ala Dan
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Recent experience has me leaning towards series II Kimber's; especially
the Raptor~! Go figure-
the Raptor~! Go figure-
robertbank
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Don't fry me guys but if you could get one - NIB Norinco! BEst bang for your buck -now have four and have yet to have a FTF of any kind. 2A1's, Commander and a 9MM 1911. Otherwise my Para SSP had never had a hic up in almost 1,000 rounds - all reloads, mine.
Gannet
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Thanks again for the replies.
I ended up buying a Kimber Warrior. It's like a Series 1, internal extractor, no firing pin safety. I put over 300 rounds through it, mostly FMJ but also 25 rounds of Speer GoldDots. No problems whatsoever.
I ended up buying a Kimber Warrior. It's like a Series 1, internal extractor, no firing pin safety. I put over 300 rounds through it, mostly FMJ but also 25 rounds of Speer GoldDots. No problems whatsoever.
I've found that about a number of things (and people.)
My theory is that sometimes the standard deviations cancel each other out; the result being an average gun or whatever. Sometimes they all pull in the right direction and what you have is rare and wonderful. These are the keepers. Then there's the third category and all you can do is sell, divorce or leave it at the side of the road. Perhaps with SII Kimbers, the external extractor makes this accumulation of deviations that much more critical.
When I got my Target II, I was lucky in that the dealer had two new ones to choose from. Both guns were still in the Fedex shipping container. I was the first one outside of the factory personnel to cycle and dryfire each of them. The trigger pulls seemed identical to me, but the action on one was clearly smoother; it even racked better. Naturally, that's the one I took home and as I've posted previously, I am very satisfied. I've had the gun since last Christmas, have carried it every day after verifying its reliability and have run approximately 1,000 rds. per month through it. This morning's 250 (Blazer Brass & Winchester WB, was typical: reliable & accurate.)
TheDutchman
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NRM Colt runs great
Marshall
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Gannet, congrats on your new Kimber 1911, enjoy!
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