Author Topic: How's your Remington 1911R1? (Read 4960 times)

Swampman · « **Reply #30 on:** December 31, 2012, 12:55:15 PM »

Brass is free to me, cast bullets are free for me, all it takes is primers and a can of Unique. I'm not fast, I'm deliberate.

Redtail1949 · « **Reply #31 on:** December 31, 2012, 04:39:49 PM »

OK OK I get it..Its April Fools Day......no i must be wrong it is New Years Eve.. well it was funny just the same..lol

SharonAnne · « **Reply #32 on:** December 31, 2012, 08:29:12 PM »

Ok Swampy, I can see how you would have not trouble with the grip safety. I was doing 4-500 a session and 1,000-1,500 a week. Big difference. When you pass 35,000 rds a year you will understand what I said about a beavertail grip safety.

Well it has happened. The Messiah has returned.

He is hiding right now on earth as Mike in V. I can joke too! That or Mike has decided to run for political office. umm, no I think the first is more likely. Surely a died in the wool gunner would not take up politics!

Happy New Year to us all. May it be as good as we fear it shall be bad. God Bless Us All

Savage · « **Reply #33 on:** January 01, 2013, 12:13:54 AM »

Mike, Xanax or Jack Black?

Happy New Year!

Savage

williamlayton · « **Reply #34 on:** January 01, 2013, 01:16:45 AM »

It all depends on how high you grip and, perhaps, the size of your hand.
I have friends who are not bothered by the GI. On the other hand, my grip is so high I sometimes have a problem with the grip safety also (not engageing).
I have my grip safety's lighteneded---My smith WILL NOT pin it.
Blessings

williamlayton · « **Reply #35 on:** January 01, 2013, 01:22:47 AM »

I would take a Remington--sight unseen--over a couple of others on the market.
I guess that comes from trust----course---trust can get you killed also.
Blessings

Swampman · « **Reply #36 on:** January 01, 2013, 02:46:29 AM »

Quote from: SharonAnne on December 31, 2012, 08:29:12 PM

Ok Swampy, I can see how you would have not trouble with the grip safety. I was doing 4-500 a session and 1,000-1,500 a week. Big difference. When you pass 35,000 rds a year you will understand what I said about a beavertail grip safety.

I don't believe any of this.

Mikey · « **Reply #37 on:** January 01, 2013, 02:59:22 AM »

Swampy: believe it......

Savage · « **Reply #38 on:** January 01, 2013, 03:33:18 AM »

I have the same problem with the grip safety as William. Had to do a little work on the sear springs to fix it. If I shoot a GI with my high grip I get slide tracks quickly. After a couple of mags it's bleeding. Guess my grip has changed from the old army days, or maybe my hands are fatter, ok likely both. I don't currently own a 1911 without an extended beaver tail. I keep a roll of masking tape in my kit for taping targets. It works well for taping up the hand if I need to shoot someone else's without the BT.
Savage

Swampman · « **Reply #39 on:** January 01, 2013, 04:57:49 AM »

Quote from: Mikey on January 01, 2013, 02:59:22 AM

Swampy: believe it......

Not for a second....pure fantasy.....

SharonAnne · « **Reply #40 on:** January 01, 2013, 04:28:45 PM »

Swampy, be specific. Do you not believe that the standard grip safety will cut you if you shoot that much or do you not believe that I could shoot that much?

Swampman · « **Reply #41 on:** January 01, 2013, 04:50:11 PM »

The later....complete fabrication.

rzwieg · « **Reply #42 on:** January 01, 2013, 05:13:42 PM »

I think she knows of what she speaks.

Will an old style grip safety cut you? I've never had any problem but I have long fingers and boney hands.

SharonAnne · « **Reply #43 on:** January 01, 2013, 10:32:47 PM »

twenty five years ago I had the ambition to get to the top of practical shooting. The men at the top average 50,000 rds a year for 8-10 years to get to the top. As the director of my clubs practical shooting division I had access to the indoor range when ever I pleased. I had a high paying job in the petro-chemical industry. I worked 12 hr shifts 3 on 3 off so I had plenty of free time. I worked a lot of overtime so that was my shooting money. We actually had an odd schedule where we worked 36 hours one week and 48 the next. We did not get overtime for the extra hours but we did get paid time off. Between my 3 weeks vacation and 8 weeks comp time I could go to any big match I wanted. We would drive up to 5 hrs every weekend to find a 'local' match. Between the Michigan league and the Ontario league we were kept busy.

I was shooting a .45 with a 3 chamber comp of my design. It took a 155gr bullet. A local caster sold to me at dealer cost for the advertising. In 1986, leading up to the World IPSC Championship in Orlando Florida I did indeed shoot 37,000 rds. It cost me a tad over $5,000 in components.

It put my blood lead level into the danger zone. I could not shoot indoors for 16 months to allow the lead level to come down.

Yep, I did shoot that much.

Mikey · « **Reply #44 on:** January 02, 2013, 01:47:16 AM »

Ummm, Swampy - not pure fabrication at all. I know a bunch of IDPA shooters who regularly shoot up to 1,000 rounds per month, in a light month and the idea of going up to 36-37k rounds of ammo a year preparing for matches is hardly inconceivable.

Ya know whatcha say about leaving your skirt at the house when you go into the swamp - well, this is a different swamp buddy and ya'll better leave your skirt at the house..........................

Swampman · « **Reply #45 on:** January 02, 2013, 02:33:31 AM »

I believe some people may shoot that much. Internet tall tales abound.

SharonAnne · « **Reply #46 on:** January 02, 2013, 09:32:25 AM »

hmm, so I am telling tall tails?

I packed it in. With my blood lead level so high, and living in Michigan I could not shoot in winter unless I shot indoors, I gave it up and just continued to shoot matches instead. Between our regular Thursday night indoor shoot and weekend matches that still put me over 10,000 rds a year.

I stopped shooting when I went to Nursing School, then when I got a job I concentrated on my work. When I divorced and moved to Phoenix I got into shooting again. I was able to schedule my work around the regular shoots. Tuesday Night Steel at Rio Salado, Thursday night paper and steel at Ben Avery and weekend USPSA matches at Ben Avery once a month and Rio Salado every weekend. They actually have 4 USPSA clubs using the same range. When my best friend told me she wanted me to go to the IRC in 2000 I said I did not have a revolver. She said "so buy one". I did. A hard chromed heavy (very) barrel K-frame complete with Aimpoint, belt, holster, speed loaders and carry box. Then I bought a clapped out Dillon 1050 in .38 Special. Dillon did a total rebuild for free. We then practiced in earnest. I shot 8,000 rds in the 10 weeks before the 2000 IRC. Having never owned a revolver before I was quite pleased with my fifth place finish. My friend Machelle finished 6th. It was great fun. Our local hero revolver man Vic Pickett finished 2nd, again. Jerry Miculek is FAST.

I also competed in the 2000 USPSA/ IPSC Hemishpere Championship.
Since no one knew me they thought I might be a ringer and I was placed in the Womens Super Squad. I was in total hero worship but I really did not belong there. I did not do well. I was just so hero struck. All of the women shooters I idolized were in my squad.

I have been sidelined with one darn thing after another since then. I did manage to get to the 2004 USPSA Nationals where I managed to crawl home with my tail tucked 'tween my legs having finished 3rd last. Oh the shame.

I had surgery for an obstructed bowel in 2005. Not being a kid anymore I healed slowly. I was gearing up for the 2007 USPSA Nationals when I broke my back, got a MRSA infection in the vertabra which led to 6 fused vertabrae and total disability with severe chronic pain.

So, now I do not shoot so much, as in none since I broke my back.

SharonAnne · « **Reply #47 on:** January 02, 2013, 03:09:39 PM »

oh yes, I forgot. In the late 1980s I bought military surplus .45 ACP brass. It arrived in 2 oversize military drums. 120,000 pcs. I kept 10,000pcs for myself and sold the rest.

williamlayton · « **Reply #48 on:** January 05, 2013, 02:19:16 AM »

It is not in the sriptures and God didn't tell him he does not believe it----butttt---if he tells YOU something then you got to believe it cause he said it---if you did it and he says you din't then you didn't even though you did.
Swampy speak.
Blessings

Swampman · « **Reply #49 on:** January 05, 2013, 02:25:44 AM »

I say what I say and I believe what I want. What others think of me and that don't mean a hill o' beans to me.

SharonAnne · « **Reply #50 on:** January 05, 2013, 02:26:34 AM »

williamlayton · « **Reply #51 on:** January 06, 2013, 01:56:12 AM »

Swampy
It is not what we think of you it is what you have told us to think of you.
Blessings

Swampman · « **Reply #52 on:** January 06, 2013, 03:50:46 AM »

Either way it don't matter at all.

SharonAnne · « **Reply #53 on:** January 06, 2013, 01:39:13 PM »

William, I do believe I saw where you had a 586 in .38 Super, is that correct?

williamlayton · « **Reply #54 on:** January 06, 2013, 02:58:53 PM »

Yes-- Pinnacle did the work----you know, 38super and 9x23.
Super sweet shooter.
Blessings