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Thread: Your MUST-HAVE features on a duty grade/carry 1911:

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    Quote Originally Posted by Grand58742 View Post
    I can understand the CCW factor. And I'm with you on the ambi-safety.

    I've got small girly hands though, so reaching up for the release makes me have to shift my grip. And I hate slingshotting the slide so it was natural for me.

    Each their own I suppose.
    Use your left thumb on the slide release.
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    Quote Originally Posted by T2C View Post
    Use your left thumb on the slide release.
    Yeah, Misanthropist pointed that out earlier. Tried it back a long time ago when I wasn't as serious about 1911s. Was working it tonight while watching the ball game and seemed a little easier with the standard release versus the extended.

    Unlearning 20 years of using the right thumb is going to be the trick lol
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    Quote Originally Posted by Grand58742 View Post
    Unlearning 20 years of using the right thumb is going to be the trick lol

    The sooner you start working on it the better. You'll get it, and be amazed at how quick you catch on doing it.
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    Must have features or absolute requirements?

    Requirements: Reliable with 230 gr. JHP/FMJ, and 2'' accuracy at 25m minimum.

    Features:

    Checkered front strap
    Lowered/flared ejection port with live round clearance cut
    Okay trigger
    single side safety
    flat MSH
    rowel style commander hammer
    good sights
    carbon steel + melonite finish
    Last edited by Magic_Salad0892; 11-13-13 at 22:29.
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    Colt XSE with night sights. Pretty much done.
    If you aren't armed when you take a dump in your own home then your opinion on what is a practical daily carry weapon isn't interesting to me.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Grand58742 View Post
    Yeah, Misanthropist pointed that out earlier. Tried it back a long time ago when I wasn't as serious about 1911s. Was working it tonight while watching the ball game and seemed a little easier with the standard release versus the extended.

    Unlearning 20 years of using the right thumb is going to be the trick lol
    If it makes you feel any better...I also had to unlearn many years of using my strong side thumb, and I didn't twig to this method until relatively recently. I have XXL hands and can get away with using my right hand/strong hand/other weak hand/whichever for everything but even for me with my banana-sized fingers, it still turns out to be a better approach.
    Full disclosure: I'm the editor of Calibre Magazine, which is Canada's gun magazine. In the past I've done consulting work for different manufacturers and OEM suppliers, but not currently. M4C's disclosure policy doesn't seem to cover me but we do have advertisers, although I don't handle that side of things and in general I do not know who is paying us at any given time.

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    45 Auto
    Tritium front sight
    Rear sight with hook for one-hand manipulation with one or no tritium vials
    Full-size steel frame
    4.25" bbl minimum, 5" bbl preferred.
    Front strap texturing
    Railed dust cover and SF X300
    Mil-spec guide rod
    Extended, beveled mag well
    Quality small parts and assembly (and a lifetime warranty on all the above)
    Many Wilson ETMs
    A truckload of ammo and spare parts
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    10-8 narrow rear and green fiber optic front with VZ gunner grips.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Magic_Salad0892 View Post
    Must have features or absolute requirements?

    Requirements: Reliable with 230 gr. JHP/FMJ, and 2'' accuracy at 25m minimum.

    Features:

    Stippled front strap
    Lowered/flared ejection port with live round clearance cut
    Okay trigger
    single side safety
    flat MSH
    rowel style commander hammer
    good sights
    carbon steel + melonite finish
    My dilemma is that nobody makes an affordable 1911 that really meets the 'requirement' part of that completely - the Colt Rail Guns are seemingly the closest, but they'd still need a bit of work to really work well.

    Once I'm in the realm of paying the equivalent of 3x or more the cost of a G19, might as well go for features which are nice, instead of merely requisite for a worthwhile carry weapon. Hence in practical terms, my 'nice to have list' is indistinguishable from my 'must have list', because the difference between a reliable, accurate, 230grJHP feeding 1911 and a 1911 which is all of the above but has great grips, a quality 5# trigger, and top end sights is trivially minor as far as cost.

    When it comes to being able to justify the cost of owning a 1911 which meets the minimal requirements on a handgun worth carrying as duty/carry grade, for the cost to performance ratio to make any kind of sense that pistol needs to outperform a cheaper modern handgun in some areas - hence why the 'unnecessary' trigger job putting a 1911 at that wonderful 4.5-5# glass rod is effectively a requirement before I'll consider carrying a 1911. Same with the a lot of the ergonomics of the pistol.
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