albanian said:
There are probably more people who carry and own 1911s because of certain feelings than because they thought it out.
Speculation at best.
albanian said:
C&L is fine if you don't mind the fact that you will NEVER have the option to just pull the trigger on a dud round and have it go bang. Pratice your tap rack and bang or whatever you are calling it now.
I see a serious problem in relying upon the specific features of any gun. If you practice pulling the trigger rather than tap-racking the gun because it's a SIG and it has second strike capability, if there comes the day when you have to pick up a different gun and protect yourself, you might not make it. Tap-rack works for ANY semiauto pistol. SA, SA/DA, DAO, Glock, Squeeze-Cocker, or something else.
Then there's the issue of whether it's smart to second strike on a dud round. Statistically, I don't know. When I've tap-racked rounds outta my gun that didn't go Boom, after the training exercise I picked up the round, looked at it to try and see the problem, and tried running the round thru the gun again. Most of the time, they will go boom a second time. But, I'm not necessarily a statistically significant body of data.
albanian said:
The fact is, in the time it takes to learn to safely carry C&L, you can learn how to shoot DA/SA and have a better set-up.
Practicing safety off when drawing, and safety on before reholstering, is no different than practicing decock before reholstering. There is NO difference. With a safety/decock pistol, like a Beretta 92F, it's simply safety off when drawing, decock/safety on before reholstering. Virtually no difference to learn and practice this.
DA/SA requires more training time because of the crunchenticker effect. Some discount it, but I've seen very experienced, very skilled, very disciplined shooters consistently throw away that first shot with SIGs and other DA/SA pistols. It's probably why SIG now makes both SAO and DAO (DAK in SIG nomenclature) models.
http://www.sigarms.com/Products/ShowCatalogProductDetails.aspx?categoryid=6&productid=151
http://www.sigarms.com/Products/ShowCatalogProductDetails.aspx?categoryid=6&productid=93
albanian said:
For range plinking and target practice they are fine but for serious self defense, you should keep it as simple as possible.
Any gun will do, if you will do.
albanian said:
it is without doubt the safest pistol set-up there is
With the exception of pot metal POS guns, guns are neither safe nor unsafe. Shooters are either safe or unsafe.
albanian said:
There are some +$2000 1911s that will shoot rings around almost anything but they are for target and not carry.
One can easily drop a load of money on a 1911 for carry. It'll shoot well and reliably. They can reliably run hundreds of rounds thru them over the weekend under grueling conditions, without cleaning, and do fine. I've seen $2K and $3K 1911s that were carried, shot, dropped on the ground, and they kept on going.
albanian said:
The SIG 220 is the thinking man's 1911.
I've done a bit of firearms training, and the guns I consistently see students carrying are 1911s and Glocks. Only occasionally do I see a SIG.