76shuvlinoff
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I take in strays all the time.....
Should I keep my 1911?
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JImbothefiveth
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I don't know if you want to get a new gun or just a conversion kit for your 1911, but .22 is the best plinker round.
If you get a kit, get one with a last shot hold-open, so you don't break the firing pin.
If you get a kit, get one with a last shot hold-open, so you don't break the firing pin.
.22 is $3 a box, $15 a brick for the cheap stuff.
You can get good quality .22s for less than that price.
Deanimator
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You're not going to be able to afford ANY centerfire for long if you don't reload.
I started reloading in college in the '70s. I buy lots of powder, primers, bullets, and when I need them, cases, which I reuse. I simply couldn't afford to shoot centerfire handguns regularly if I didn't reload. And that was before prices went insane.
I started reloading in college in the '70s. I buy lots of powder, primers, bullets, and when I need them, cases, which I reuse. I simply couldn't afford to shoot centerfire handguns regularly if I didn't reload. And that was before prices went insane.
monkyboy1975
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You can always change the sights and take up reloading. that little press from Lee cost about 25.00 plus dies are not that bad. I've been thinking about getting back into reloading myself due to the cost of ammo. (.40 isnt very cheap either)
If you really like target shooting your 1911, consider trading it towards one that has Bo-Mar style sights. They are really the benchmark for 1911 accuracy use, and make it much more fun at the range. They are also low-mount and don't inhibit self-defense or carry use.
The Novacks and others, while giving a nice sharp picture, are not adjustable like a Bo-Mar style sight so will print differently with various loads and ranges. Consider selling your gun via Gun Broker, THR or locally, then finding the right bo-mar equipped gun when it comes along. Or, if your gun suits you otherwise, and it is capable of acceptable accuracy when benchmarked, consider having the sight cut done and sights installed by a good local gunsmith.
As to ammo costs, like has been said, reload. It's fun, too.
You always need a 1911. Preferrably at least four!
The Novacks and others, while giving a nice sharp picture, are not adjustable like a Bo-Mar style sight so will print differently with various loads and ranges. Consider selling your gun via Gun Broker, THR or locally, then finding the right bo-mar equipped gun when it comes along. Or, if your gun suits you otherwise, and it is capable of acceptable accuracy when benchmarked, consider having the sight cut done and sights installed by a good local gunsmith.
As to ammo costs, like has been said, reload. It's fun, too.
You always need a 1911. Preferrably at least four!
westpoint64
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I think you've made a wise decision to keep the Springfield 1911. Try to find night sights for the gun if it's ever going to be a protection piece. Criminals more likely than not are going to attack at darker times of the day/night.
Boba Fett: I just found out yesterday that yes, the barrel on the Sig P250 will interchange on 9mm, .40, and .357 Sig. However, the Sig P250 in .45 is going to require a wider platform and will not interchange with the other 3 calibers. Still, that's a lot of versatility- 3 guns in one, pretty much.
Boba Fett: I just found out yesterday that yes, the barrel on the Sig P250 will interchange on 9mm, .40, and .357 Sig. However, the Sig P250 in .45 is going to require a wider platform and will not interchange with the other 3 calibers. Still, that's a lot of versatility- 3 guns in one, pretty much.
Should I keep my 1911
That's a really nice looking 1911, and you say you're pretty happy with it except for the sights. You'd be way ahead just getting some decent sights installed by a gunsmith, moneywise. As for ammo, .45 is pricey, but it's also about the best handgun caliber there is. Even then, it's less expensive than some others. Get a bunch of WWB harball at WalMart and you're good to go.
That's a really nice looking 1911, and you say you're pretty happy with it except for the sights. You'd be way ahead just getting some decent sights installed by a gunsmith, moneywise. As for ammo, .45 is pricey, but it's also about the best handgun caliber there is. Even then, it's less expensive than some others. Get a bunch of WWB harball at WalMart and you're good to go.
Dr. Tad Hussein Winslow
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Bingo!
The man was actually asking if he should part with a 1911 that works; tsk, tsk.
I sold 2 Kimbers and a Wilson in various money crunches in the past, and regretted all 3, particularly the Wilson.
Macmac
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I was poster # 3...
I have a real Remington Rand which is a Colt clone of your colt clone, only mine is a lot older. WW-2 Vintage.
I also have a Kimber CDP Pro II probably with the very same Novak night sites you are looking at since that is a good part of the much more money a Kimber costs.
Well the Kimber is a tad fussy about what it eats, which is pretty much either ball (copper clad round nose slugs, or flyin ashtrays, which are reloads really with that style of hollow point)
Now that old battle vetran gun will shoot anything, and I mean anything. It will feed flat nose full blown wad cutters, semi wad cutters too which are tapered at least..
The gun you have is one you will regret selling as it is a high quailty base that works as is, and is the platform all the so called custom guns, which one were real custom guns have become as Les Baer, Wilson, and Kimber which isn't really custom at all. Kimber is a sort of low end custom more factory regular than a real custom, and as such tends to have issues.. Mine did.
Now because it had issue there is always that thinking in the back if my mind..
Since the Rand never did, it is the first one I will pick up on a bad day...
These guys are telling it straight.. Send the slide to Novak, and get the sites... The when you have more if you want get a better trigger for targets, then maybe tighten the rails and get a new barrel. It is still possible to build a gun and better than what Kimber pumps out the door all screwed up.
Wilson makes great parts and will sell them to anyone. You can add improvement after improvement to about 4 grand and still not be out...
If you did that very thing you would end up with a gun that does one job well and not many other jobs well at all. As it is now it will do any job you ask it to, just not as well in a special job..
Good target guns make for lousey self defence guns.
I have a real Remington Rand which is a Colt clone of your colt clone, only mine is a lot older. WW-2 Vintage.
I also have a Kimber CDP Pro II probably with the very same Novak night sites you are looking at since that is a good part of the much more money a Kimber costs.
Well the Kimber is a tad fussy about what it eats, which is pretty much either ball (copper clad round nose slugs, or flyin ashtrays, which are reloads really with that style of hollow point)
Now that old battle vetran gun will shoot anything, and I mean anything. It will feed flat nose full blown wad cutters, semi wad cutters too which are tapered at least..
The gun you have is one you will regret selling as it is a high quailty base that works as is, and is the platform all the so called custom guns, which one were real custom guns have become as Les Baer, Wilson, and Kimber which isn't really custom at all. Kimber is a sort of low end custom more factory regular than a real custom, and as such tends to have issues.. Mine did.
Now because it had issue there is always that thinking in the back if my mind..
Since the Rand never did, it is the first one I will pick up on a bad day...
These guys are telling it straight.. Send the slide to Novak, and get the sites... The when you have more if you want get a better trigger for targets, then maybe tighten the rails and get a new barrel. It is still possible to build a gun and better than what Kimber pumps out the door all screwed up.
Wilson makes great parts and will sell them to anyone. You can add improvement after improvement to about 4 grand and still not be out...
If you did that very thing you would end up with a gun that does one job well and not many other jobs well at all. As it is now it will do any job you ask it to, just not as well in a special job..
Good target guns make for lousey self defence guns.
RSY
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Like others have said, get new sights and a .22 conversion kit (I'd get the Kimber kit). Finally, some Crimson Trace grips, and I'd be done (except for a tactical ambi safety, since I'm a lefty).
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hank327
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Keep it and send the slide to Novak's for the sights. It sounds like you like the pistol as is except for the sights and the price of ammunition so I'm assuming it functions reliably. If you sell it, you will regret it. I sold a Colt Government Model Series 70 over twenty years ago in a moment of temporary insanity. I regret that action to this very day.
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