couldnt trade it!!! Long

[Lloyd Smale]

I just picked up a kimber gold match. What a shooter!! One hole groups are the norm at 25 yards. Im a fortunate sob. ive got a pretty good selection of 1911s right now and there all good guns. My gold cup never misses a beat and is accuate. Kimber alloy commander with the dreaded ex. extractor that after a trip to kimber has been flawless for over 3000 rounds. One cdp kimber thats been flawless (just traded the other for the gold match) A 9mm goverment 70 series that i just started playing with that with most ammo is flawless but doesnt like a few bullets but then hasnt even had the feed ramp polished yet. A p18 para 9mm that is a tack driver. IT will be my new ppc gun and a springfield loaded plain jain .45 matte blued gun that is the gun of the story. It was a piece of crap at first its allways been accurate but fed like crap. A trip back to springfield didnt help matters much. But after i did some polishing and spring experiments its been a great gun. Not going to win any beauty contests but is very reliable and shoots as good as the kimber. Most groups shoot into one hole at 25 yards. I figured the other day that i had to many full sized 1911s and was on the way to the buddys gun shop to trade it off but stopped at the range on the way as he wouldnt know what to do if i traded a clean gun to him. Well i put about 400 rounds through it and it never missed a beat and after shaking my head at the tiny little groups it shot i just couldnt part with it. You hear so much bs on some of the other fourms bad mouthing 1911s granted ive weeded out a few bad guns but I put more acp rounds down range then anything and have probably shot 5000 this summer alone and can honestly say i havent had a malfuntion of any kind yet this summer other then load experimenting with the 9mms with loads that were to light for the spring. Some of these guns have run over a 1000 contiuious rounds without a cleaning or reoiling. Felt pretty good the other day. I was out pounding steel with 3 different 1911s and two young guns showed up at the range. One had a glock and one a sig. Both fine guns but not for me. They jokenly laughed at my old fashion guns but they both came with 5 boxes of factory ammo and there perfectly cleaned and oiled guns. both had a number of failures to feed and my old 1911s just kept on ticking as i grabbed more ammo out of the two coffee cans of reloads i had with me. Funny thing was that ones a deputy sherrif and ones a state tropper and they both told me at the beginning that the 1911s are neat guns but nothing to trust there lives too. By the end of the day both were shooting my 1911s and making comments about how much better they felt in the hand and how much more accurate they were. The deputy left saying hes going to start carrying one for a duty gun (our sheriff carrys one himself) and the state tropper was discusted because policy only lets him carry a sig short and weak. Moral of the story in my opionion anyway was in this world of high tech guns and gadgets. The old gun Browning designed at the turn of the century is still hands down the best combat handgun ever designed and never part with a good gun. Ive done it before and have allways regretted it.

[williamlayton]

I almost refuse to part with any weapon that has proved itself too me. That said, I refuse to keep any weapon that proves itself to be finniky and unreliable no matter the beauty of itself.
Blessings

[44 Man]

Well Lloyd, there ain't much better than a nice 1911 for looks, handling, decent power, and ease of operation.  (Yeah, who ever came up with the idea of making a thumb safety that you have to 'push up' to take off!  Old John Browning knew how a persons hands work.)  The other true classic out there is the Colt Single Action Army.  I got my Colt Defender home now, but I'm still working on the stainless Colt Gov't on layaway.  See ya Lloyd