| Ripp |
| (.577 member) |
| 16/09/17 04:36 AM |
Re: 1911-pistol- 100-plus-years-of-dependable-service....
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I too shot IPSC at it's inception with a self assembled 1911 from an AMT (Arcadia Machine and Tool boy is that a long time ago) frame, a beat up Gold Cup slide and over time, a few barrels, slide stop pins, mainspring pins. Poor thing must have 50-60,000 through it. Not as tight as it used to be but I get it out and blast. Have a couple more and cracked the frame on a no name frame right in front of the trigger guard, never saw that before. Always fun when some one comes by and has never fired a 1911 and the look on their face after a magazine or two...
Had an opportunity to shoot the Les Baer guaranteed match job and it was sweet, but nearly $3K.
I was Ordnance officer for 60 - Glock 22's when they first came out and the only thing they could manage to break on them is knock the front sight off. I never replaced anything except the mainsprings after a few years which we just felt was prudent for pistols going into harms way.
I found with the Glock smaller stature persons who do not grip firmly, the thing short strokes though I never have had that problem.
I have a friend who worked for the dept of homeland security for a few years..his boss had him take out one of the Glocks to try to make it fail..he told me he had as much ammo as he wanted to shoot.....he said the same thing as you..said he even threw it repeatedly into a brick wall..mud, etc..never did get it they are NO where near a 1911 as to feel and trigger pull, as I said before I want it to go bang every time..I am reasonably certain the Glock and HK will do that...alsout reasonably certain the standard 1911 out of the box would have failed under the same scenarios ..
Have several friends who are in the local Sheriff's office--they were all issued high dollar 1911's for their duty guns...all the deputies in my class love how they shoot, also state how they are very accurate, but hate carrying them all day long..said along with all their other gears weight, they would much rather go back to the polymer types..
I also have numerous 1911's..Colts, Springfields, Kimbers, and 1 Dan Wesson..love all of them, but carry a polymer for CC...lighter, thinner, easier to conceal/carry and very reliable in my experience...
Agree with the comment, for competition pretty hard to beat what they are using in the race gun class..speaks for itself..but this is also way different than all day carrying for personal defense, IMHO
Ripp