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 03-18-2010, 12:55 AM | #61 | Supporting Member Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: Bandera, Texas Posts: 10,294 |
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Not in my eyes!
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Except, of course, for Colt. | 
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| 03-22-2010, 03:24 AM | #62 | Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2010 Location: Denver, Colorado Posts: 516 | 
I know something about pimping out a 1911 with all the cool looking new functionality bullcrap (because I'm doing it to my Taurus 1911) but I think if its a 100 year commemorative like the 1911 it needs to be just like the first pistol put into production. The Kimber commemorative just makes me want to cry for the poor fools that will shell out for it because of the charcoal bluing and ivory grips and what-not. I'd really like to see the un-cut, un-bevelled, spur hammer, and all the other decent original features of the first 1911 on the 100 year anniversary that a middle class American can afford.
And for God's sake can we stay away fromt he unsightly engravings and extra long text and have the original font of the 1911 with the short and to the point like it was back in the day?
As for what company gets the commision to do the project, I dont much care, but I have the leanings toward Colt because of them being one of the first companies to have the license to use the design, but that's not to say any company cant make one, as long as it has good original craftman ship. | |
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| 05-14-2010, 11:35 PM | #63 | I'm always 10-8 Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: 150 miles NE of Sloppy Joe's Bar, in the "GunShine" State Posts: 17,407 |
Here's the first blush from Colts: __________________ .
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| 05-15-2010, 02:02 AM | #64 | Retired Join Date: Apr 2010 Location: LA (Lower Alabama), FL Posts: 4,741 |
Looks good, but the finish (to me) does not look like a true blue. It kinda looks like a spray paint job. __________________
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| 05-15-2010, 04:50 AM | #65 | Thank Ya, Very Much! Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: Somewhere being Awesome Posts: 8,404 |
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Originally Posted by danf_fl
Looks good, but the finish (to me) does not look like a true blue. It kinda looks like a spray paint job.
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I wasn't gonna say it.
A wise man once said "I'm not a big engraved-gun fan. It chases me away from what the gun was intended to do during its life.
It stereotypically expresses the owner's excess with its baroque pretense."  | |
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| 05-15-2010, 07:26 AM | #66 | Member Join Date: Jan 2010 Location: , KY Posts: 75 |
Id rather see the engraving gone, colt royal blue, double dimond walnut grips.  __________________
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| 05-15-2010, 07:37 AM | #67 | I'm always 10-8 Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: 150 miles NE of Sloppy Joe's Bar, in the "GunShine" State Posts: 17,407 |
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Originally Posted by Shihan
I wasn't gonna say it.
A wise man once said "I'm not a big engraved-gun fan. It chases me away from what the gun was intended to do during its life.
It stereotypically expresses the owner's excess with its baroque pretense." |
Yep, it sucks!
Glad I got my Remington coming!
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| 05-15-2010, 07:44 AM | #68 | Member Join Date: Jan 2010 Location: , KY Posts: 75 |
hey when it comes in could ya tell me which plant it came from, im askin this because the remington factory in my home town of Mayfeild Ky is expanding and they are looking for about 5000 workers __________________
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| 05-15-2010, 07:50 AM | #69 | I'm always 10-8 Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: 150 miles NE of Sloppy Joe's Bar, in the "GunShine" State Posts: 17,407 |
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Originally Posted by YoungGunWill
hey when it comes in could ya tell me which plant it came from, im askin this because the remington factory in my home town of Mayfeild Ky is expanding and they are looking for about 5000 workers |
The Remington 1911R1 is manufactured in their Ilion, NY facility. __________________ .
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| 05-15-2010, 11:33 AM | #70 | Senior Member Join Date: Jul 2009 Posts: 625 |
I'm disappointed. __________________
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