What size 1911 do you favor and I don't mean the barrel/slide/grip length?

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When I first shot a 1911 years and years ago, I liked the history etc but didn't feel it fit my hand. A few years later when I shot another I fell in love with how if fit. Now they are my favorite platform and I have over a dozen, along with a other handgun's I love.

So what size/Shape works for you best:

Flat, wedge, bobtail or arched mainspring?

Thin or regular grips?

Short, medium or long trigger?

Single stack or double stack?

Any thing else important for you so it has the right feel? Checkering, texture of grips, smooth or serated trigger, gotta have a bevertail or even a certain type of bevertail?

And if you must what size frame and slide for the best shooting? Not for carry.


I think if there non 1911 shooters got to fire one that was the right size for them more people would be shooting 1911's.


So I'll go first

Flat Msh, although sometimes I can get away with arched
Must be thing grips on a full rounded colt style frontstrap, no blocky springfield (old Style) front strap for me.
Short trigger and single stack.

I certainly have preferances in regards to trigger texture, and front strap and MSH treetment but they are not musts. I can get by with out a bevertail with no problems.
 
Arched mainspring housing and long trigger at about 4or 5 lbs on a carry gun or about 3lbs on a range or competition gun.

I also like the beavertail and commander style hammer.

Slightly extended safety and stock slide release.
 
1911 implies single stack.

Arched MS housing, short trigger, standard grips, standard gip safety, spur hammer.

The above is my preferred set-up, but my most common carry gun is an Enhanced Series 80 LW OACP. which means, flat MSH, long trigger, beaver tail GS, "commander" hammer. I have added slim Alumagrips, so it is now completely opposite of what I describe above as my preference. :eek: I am really neutral on the GS but my preference for the spurred hammer is definite, an arched MSH has less impact on the short OACP frame and the long trigger works well with the slim grips for me. So I guess that I am adaptable.
 
Long trigger, arched mainspring, single stack, flat normal thickness grips or a narrow double stack. Only have one 1911 pattern gun, a Delta Elite that the previous owner put a long trigger on and it works very well for me. I just picked up a CZ-40B which has a squared off 1911 flat mainspring feel to it and it points slightly better for me. It's a double stack .40 S&W with thin grips making the over-all width identical to my Delta.

I'd like to get a steel mainspring housing for my Delta but I don't like checkering and I'm a cheap bastard. All the plain or serrated arched housings are high end afairs so I'm putting it off until I have some extra dough or something brakes ;)
 
Give me a 1911A1 Govt Spec any day
Short Trigger
Arched MSH
full checkered wood grips, diamond are ok
Do not add anything but give me a 1911A1
but bob the hammer a little and I am fine.

I do not like
flat MSH:barf:
Big honkin Beavertails :what:
Goofy commando hammers:banghead:
long triggers with sissy holes in 'em:rolleyes:
dimples or fish scales
Front slide serrations
Full length guide rods
Mag wells



KISS 'cause good ole Uncle Murphy is right around the corner

:D
 
Aw heck, it is easier to post a picture. :evil:

bestdelta.jpg
 
Arched MSH, short trigger, single stack, skinny grips. I like the beavertail conversion on some, but on my Commander you just suck it up and let it bite ya.

I also found that using the Houge monogrip is nice, but it seriously makes the pistol feel much bigger. You could compare my 1991A1/Secampnext to a pre A1 Government model, and the newer gun just seems larger overall, evn though it's not.
 
Me, I like the single stack gov't model w/ novak sights...everything else is negotiable as long as it works right.
 
Single stack, standard thickness grips, flat MSH, long trigger, beavertail, and just enough of a thumb safety to park my thumb on top of while firing.
 
BigG - :D
You made my day with that pic! That's the most tactical butter knife I've ever seen ;) <-- 'less Skunk comes along with a black one
ROTFLMAO!


Re: Preferences 1911 - none really. (Although front slide serrations are becoming an annoyance)(Some of the newer offerings are way overboard on the doo dads and hickeymathingies)
 
Pebble finish wood grips with silver Colt Medallions (anybody have any of these for sale?

Short trigger - I even like the stamped GI ones

Original wide Colt gripsafety (looking for some extras)

Flat STEEL mainspring housing

Wide original 1911 long spur hammer (looking for some extras)

Colt ambidexterious thumb safety - non extended

Standard slide release - prefer checkered instead of grooved

Regular (short) guide rod

GI style recoil spring plug. Why don't they still make them with the little dimple so you can "screw" them onto the recoil spring so they never go ZING?

And of course Single stack - I like to be able to afford magazines.
 
Joe, Cool pic.

What's with the bird grip image? Is that signifying a model that I just don't know about . . . . . Or is it just a custom grip?
 
Flat housing, long trigger, and regular width grips...
Click to expand...

Yup.

Other than that, make mine a single-stack, with regular GI-type guide rod and plug, with a regular slide release lever, and extended thumb safety.

Parts that get ripped out if a new 1911 acquisition has them:

Full-length guide rods.

Extended slide release levers.

Shok-Buffs.

Extended mag wells on carry guns.
 
Flat vertically serrated MSH, standard thickness-full checkered grips, vertically serrated frontstrap with undercut triggerguard, standard thumbsafety, slightly dehorned GI grip safety with a bobbed wide-spur hammer, King's Extra Long Trigger, Novak rear sight with staked Tijicon front, and the back of the slide should be horizontally serrated.

Wrap all this into a Vickers-built Commander sized 10mm in hard Chrome and the Ed Brown Bobtail conversion and you have my dream pistol.

sigh...........thanks for letting me dream guys

Mino
 
Flat MSH.

Regular grips.

Long tigger.

Single stack.

I dont like checkered frontstraps, and prefer serrated MSHs. I dont like wood grips either, the Rubber ones from Kimber and pearce(?) work well for me. I prefer a beavertail over the GI part, but its not a must-have. Standard slide release (extended only on widebodies). Standard mag release and guide rod. I shoot with a high thumb, so an extended safety is nice, the cocking serrations on my colt have scraped my thumb more than once, lol.

I prefer government models, they conceal quite well too. Thats what I shoot best, and therefore thats what I carry.
 
does anyone else use the slim aluma grips from gungrips.net? i got mine yesterday, and while i love how it feels in my hand, the grip screws are just a hair too long, and prevent the magazine from dropping out. i have to pull it out and it takes an extra second to put back in. i'm thinking of grinding the screws down just hair, or maybe gungrips will replace them?

now my trigger finger gets a real good wraparound. i have short stumpy fingers.
 
spacemanspiff,

Yeah, I have the slim Alumagrips on my LWOACP. I ordered short grip screws, but still had to file them down a bit. They are fantastic grips.


JoeHatley,

Them Hawkeyes are going down tomorrow, just like they did in '83. :) Happy New Year anyway. :)
 
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