Shot two 1911's the other day, don't love it

[mljdeckard]

First of all, if you don't like it, you don't like it. You should use the guns you feel comfortable with and shoot well. Tell the internet experts to pound sand. It's your butt, not theirs.

HAVING SAID THAT, I carried a LOT of different guns before I came back to a 1911, and I don't see myself ever going back. Carrying a single-action-only auto with the hammer cocked and the safety on is only less safe in your head. There is more preventing that hammer from falling than on say, a Glock with a round chambered. The fact that you can SEE the cocked hammer messes with you.

Not all 1911s need tools to strip them. I switched mine back to the G.I. style guide rod, no more tools.

I've said this many times, I have a certain amount of disdain for custom 1911 snobs. I have shot the custom guns, and for the life of me, I can't see what any of them can do that my $608 Kimber can't.

 

[f4t9r]

Like what you want and love what you want.
Many guns out there. Nobody (well some do) says you have to like one gun or another. Two guns you get flamed for saying you do not like are the 1911 & Glock. I really do not care what you like only what I like.

 

[PT1911]

I dont like glocks, I do like 1911's but the problem isnt who likes or dislikes what... when you call a superior type of a design (which still dominates competition shooting) out dated and inferior, it is bout to ruffle some feathers.. I have no problem with someone saying they prefer another gun over a 1911, even a glock (sigh), but coming up with stupid reasons like the take down is too difficult, or I dont like the hammer, or the trigger is bad... if you dont like it, say you dont like it... dont invent reasons to justify it to yourself... obviously all of those reasons are completely unfounded seeing as the takedown is simple taking only a few seconds to completely strip one, the trigger is more consistent along with first shot accuracy (as well as being very easily customized), and the cocked and locked hammer is actually, in my and many minds, safer than an internal hammer or striker fire... the one thing a 1911 is missing is a decock, but then again, so are the majority of modern guns and I personally wouldnt want one on a 1911 anyhow...

 

[76shuvlinoff]

We all got our dislikes .. the world keeps turning...

 

[Billy Shears]

I dont like glocks, I do like 1911's but the problem isnt who likes or dislikes what... when you call a superior type of a design (which still dominates competition shooting) out dated and inferior, it is bout to ruffle some feathers.. I have no problem with someone saying they prefer another gun over a 1911, even a glock (sigh), but coming up with stupid reasons like the take down is too difficult, or I dont like the hammer, or the trigger is bad... if you dont like it, say you dont like it... dont invent reasons to justify it to yourself... obviously all of those reasons are completely unfounded seeing as the takedown is simple taking only a few seconds to completely strip one, the trigger is more consistent along with first shot accuracy (as well as being very easily customized), and the cocked and locked hammer is actually, in my and many minds, safer than an internal hammer or striker fire... the one thing a 1911 is missing is a decock, but then again, so are the majority of modern guns and I personally wouldnt want one on a 1911 anyhow...

I agree completely. There's no reason for a decocker on a single action pistol -- why would you ever want to lower the hammer on a live round? That's the least safe way to carry or store the pistol.

I agree with your other comments as well. To say that one doesn't care for the 1911 because one prefers a revolver, or wants a gun with a hi-cap magazine, or prefers DAO, or just likes the feel of another gun better or the way it shoots is all well and good. Everybody's got the preferences. But some of the reasons people are giving smack of self-justification. Some people razz on the pro-1911 crowd for being unreasonable about the gun or having a chip on their shoulder, but there seems to be an anti-1911 crowd that displays those traits just as strongly, only on the opposite side of the issue.

 

[jerkface11]

I actually have one 1911 in .38 super. and 3 1911ish guns two of which are tiny llamas in .22 and .380 the other is a Star 9mm. They only suck in .45. However I don't think that they're the most advanced pistols in the world.

 

[PT1911]

absolutely right.... a 1911 is not the most advanced handgun in the world.. nor is any glock, smith, ruger, cz, or any other mainstream maker..

http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/news...GUN__THAT_ONLY_AUTHORISED_USERS_CAN_FIRE_.asp

when these guns are mass produced, then the 1911, along with all other current guns on the market will be outdated.. until then, the 1911 remains on par or better than the others...

 

[HexHead]

I've said this many times, I have a certain amount of disdain for custom 1911 snobs. I have shot the custom guns, and for the life of me, I can't see what any of them can do that my $608 Kimber can't.

I used to think that when I first got my Kimbers too. I doubted I'd ever be able to tell the difference an extra $1000++ or more would get me.

Then I got my Nighthawk. One magazine through it and I knew one of the Kimbers was soon to be history. It shot groups half the size of the Kimbers. Everything else in the way it felt in my hand to the smoothness of the slide was just icing on the cake.