I hadn't seen one of these on here, so I thought I'd post it. I went looking for a new 1911 to replace my Ed Brown, and after lots of research, went with a Guncrafter No Name. I haven't had a chance to shoot it yet, so here's some pics and first impressions. While some guys here have clearly owned more and fancier 1911's than I have, I've owned a few. No safe queens. My 1911s do a lot of training/working and get carried daily. So I pick carefully. My last 1911 was one of the first Ed Brown Special Forces (Carbon Steel/GenIII). I had just under 20K rounds through the Brown.
In a coupla weeks when I get back from traveling, I'll update with some rounds through it.
Not having shot it yet, I do like the design philosophy of the No Name. The attention to detail is where it should be. All gun, no crap. The finish is similar to Bruce Gray's Superblack. The checkering is aggressive but not overly so. The EGW style bushing and nice barrel crown are nice touches. The grip safety is perfectly fit. It's tight but not ridiculous. I've owned guns that were so tight out of the box it was ridiculous. I remember when I first got the EB, I put a dent in my thumb getting the bushing off (don't own any bushing wrenches, and maybe I'm old fashioned, but don't think you should need them). I'm usually not a fan of slide top lines, but these are different. Usually, these are shallow, high LPI that'll get ****ed up if you hit a door or something with them. These are deep, low LPI, heavy cut lines that look like a plowman and a machinist got together for some steel work. I think they'll take strikes without getting flattened. The serrations on the sides are fine. And no crazy stuff on the slide is nice. I was always a little oddly embarrassed by "Special Forces" rolled on the slide of my EB.
Sights are great. I have Heinies on almost all my guns.
Trigger dry fire is pretty much on par with any nice 1911 like EB, Les Baer, Wilson, yadda.
I really like the 15 LPI, they're tough. They also look like they won't get easily flattened bouncing off hard shit. I also like the no-lanyward MSH.
So, so far so good.
The only thing I DON'T like are the grips. They're a little over done both in looks and grip for my tastes. I switched to some 10-8 VZ's that I had, and had softened with 400 grit.
I also bought some nice new leather. A Milt Sparks VM2 and a coupla Del Fatti Mag holders. Some embedded photos.
More to come!
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Originally Posted by Sigmund Freud
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