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 12-01-2009, 08:43 AM | #1 | Senior Member Join Date: Dec 2007 Posts: 7,158 |  Why a 1911?
On my local GA forum a fella asked what's so special about a 1911. He said it's old, only carries 7 rounds, and it's heavy - so it's not as "good" as his XD.
I read thru the responses, and this was the best one I saw so I thought I'd share. No, it's not JHP rounds in the pic - but it's a good one (and a Colt!)...
This was another I really liked:
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| 12-01-2009, 10:49 AM | #2 | mmmmm...... Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Maiden, NC Posts: 9,583 |
I like the pics, thanks for sharing. Did you ask him if he had ever shot a 1911? __________________
If the pain is lacking so is the discipline...
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| 12-01-2009, 10:59 AM | #3 | Senior Member Join Date: Dec 2007 Posts: 7,158 |
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Originally Posted by spittinfire
I like the pics, thanks for sharing. Did you ask him if he had ever shot a 1911?
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A bunch of folks did and the answer was no. For a noob, it does seem like the 1911 is a relic of the past - big, heavy, low capacity - then you shoot one and the lightbulb goes on... | |
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| 12-01-2009, 11:06 AM | #4 | Supporting Member Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Rogers, AR Posts: 6,267 |
I'm still waiting for someone to make a polymer pistol with a 1911 style trigger. Come on now!!  | |
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| 12-01-2009, 11:32 AM | #5 | mmmmm...... Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Maiden, NC Posts: 9,583 |
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I'm still waiting for someone to make a polymer pistol with a 1911 style trigger. Come on now!! |
Kimber did but it was a double stack and they're no longer making it. __________________
If the pain is lacking so is the discipline...
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| 12-01-2009, 11:34 AM | #6 | Senior Member Join Date: Dec 2007 Posts: 7,158 |
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I'm still waiting for someone to make a polymer pistol with a 1911 style trigger. Come on now!! |
I don't even want to know why as JMB would release the lightning bolts to fry the blasphemers... | |
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| 12-01-2009, 11:34 AM | #7 | mmmmm...... Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Maiden, NC Posts: 9,583 |
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Originally Posted by NGIB
A bunch of folks did and the answer was no. For a noob, it does seem like the 1911 is a relic of the past - big, heavy, low capacity - then you shoot one and the lightbulb goes on...
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I have to be honest, I wasn't really interested in one until after I got into pistol shooting. Then curiousity got the best of me and now there is a Kimber living in my house. __________________
If the pain is lacking so is the discipline...
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| 12-01-2009, 01:33 PM | #8 | When it's Necessary.... Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: Tornado "Just Blow Me" Alley, Oklahoma U.S.A. Posts: 8,424 |
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I have to be honest, I wasn't really interested in one until after I got into pistol shooting. Then curiosity got the best of me and now there is a Kimber living in my house.
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You know the saying Spitty.....Curiosity killed the cat....with a 1911. 
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| 12-01-2009, 02:39 PM | #9 | Senior Member Join Date: Nov 2009 Posts: 341 |
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Originally Posted by NGIB
On my local GA forum a fella asked what's so special about a 1911. He said it's old, only carries 7 rounds, and it's heavy - so it's not as "good" as his XD.
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Originally Posted by NGIB
A bunch of folks did and the answer was no.
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Totally true. __________________
"It is not the critic who counts, nor the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who knows great enthusiasm, great devotion, and the triumph of achievement, and who, at worst, if he fails at least fails whilst daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those odd and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat. You've never lived until you've almost died. For those who have had to fight for it life has truly a flavour the protected shall never know." | |
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| 12-01-2009, 03:06 PM | #10 | Senior Member Join Date: Jun 2008 Posts: 813 |
Let the plastic gun bashing begin. BLAAAAAAAAAAAA
I love 1911's don't get me wrong but I also love my XDm and Glock and have had nothing go wrong with either of them. I bought them because it was my god given right, not because my gov't said I had to.
So everyone hush now
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