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At the end of last summer I thougt it was UGLY. Add a $1300 price tag at Bass Pro did not help matters.. :what:

By the time Thanksgiving rolled around I had warmed up to it a bit and I picked it up a pro raptor II at my friendly gun shop for $1k with a couple of boxes of ammo thrown in. It follows me everywhere now.
 
Just a marketing ploy to get you to buy yet another 1911. After all you have to differentiate yours from the rest of the 1911 makers. My thinking is my Colt 1911 Series 70 in 9mm and my Springy in .45 are enough. There are others that looks nice, are fancy, different colors, different metals but my two are just fine. Rather spend the $1k on some other type of gun that I don't have. I do like Kimber's Desert Warrior though.
 
My wife saw one in a gun shop and loved it.

She may now buy the Ultra version of it. And this is a woman who up til now was not interested in the 1911 or the .45 round.

So making a different looking something does work at times.

So who knows, thanks to this ugly uberduckling she may become a committed member of the 1911 carrying tribe.

I just hope the thing is reliable.
 
I don't dislike that second Sig-1911, the Piranah, except for the "Here, Jimbob, hold mah beer while I use the Dremel" serrations (and I use that term loosely) on the slide. I mean, it really looks like what happens if you let a 6th grade Shop class loose on a 1911 slide with power tools.

What is the point on serrations/scallops/divots on TOP of the slide, anyway?

Mike

PS As to the raptor, it is marketing. Its different. I wouldn't buy it, but that's just me.
 
I thought the Raptor was "odd" at first glance. Then I picked it up.......it's my EDC now. Feels absoultely perfect in the hand.I did change the grips though, didnt want to gouge the factory grips up. I ordered a set of the Factory G10 grips that come on the desert warrior. I dig those grips, and the coyote brown is great with the polished blue.
 
What is the point on serrations/scallops/divots on TOP of the slide, anyway?
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To cut down glare. serrations work even better as the eye follows the line to the front sight.
Does everyone here own a black model T?
Is everyone's house just four walls and a roof?
What we are really talking about here is putting some style into our toys. I don't understand the mindset where anything different is bad.
 
Just my opinion, and no offense to those who like it, but I think the manufacturers have finally run out of ideas on how to, ahem, "improve" the 1911 design. It's high time people stop looking at these things like toys. The 1911 is supposed to be the ultimate combat weapon, and when I see things like this I can't help but think we're degrading and insulting John Browning's design. It's sort of like seeing Joe Lewis or Bruce Lee being forced to wear pink women's underwear.
 
whether I like it or not, I am not paying what they are asking for that pistol. Still, gotta applaud them for doing something different, even if it does kind of suck.
 
i love the raptor, think it is absolutely beautiful, and drool over it whenever i see one!:)
 
that piranha is ugly, though! too many colors... they should've kept the frame and slide the same color or put black grips on it, not brown. also, the grips look too small - there's too much gun left over behind the grips. boo!
 
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I think you guys are jealous because you don't own one.:D It's different, looks more like a collector gun than a usable gun. I always thought of Kimber as a way overpriced 1911, no better than SA, but definately better than a Colt. hpg
 
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