I don't see any reason to ever need a ridiculously expensive 1911 other than for eye candy at hunting camp, Ruger, Springfield, S&W, and Colt's all produce perfectly suitable 1911's for ccw work. The Ruger I handled at the range to the tune of 640 rounds of 230 gr Magtech was just as nice handling as my heavily relied upon Colt's. In fact its a splendid pistol that if absent the Ruger logos and rollmarked with Colt's and a pony would easily fetch between $900.00 and $1,000, yet my understanding is that you can land one in the vicinity of $600.00 or so! My point being that if any decent manufacturer of 1911 pistols can't get it mostly right at about that Ruger price point, then they are not a decent manufacturer in the first place, we're talking about $12.00 worth of steel here, not diamond dust. I see this all of the time, the chorus of its this or it that from the crowd that seems to think a 1911 is a death trap unless it came from one of the famous few at a price tag north of $3,000, which is just plain BS! In a traditional 1911 there are but 51 parts, and they have been around for 100 years, I have been carrying a 1911 since 1982, the only thing we ever even considered was having them throated and polished, sometimes the ejector needs tweaking, aside from that they were completely capable of going off to combat with. I cannot for the life of me think what anyone might be looking for beyond a $1,000 Colt's Rail Gun, because that piece is apple pie compared to what I was issued back in 1977, it seems to me that most of this crap is vanity, an expensive vanity that often time ends up with a pistol not remotely suitable for daily carry, let alone combat. I believe that the whole industry behind the 1911 is one of the biggest snowjobs any market has ever been subject to, consider the aforementioned Ruger 1911, a famous pistolsmith had access to exactly the same piece that I did, a pistol that performed flawlessly and without a single hiccup, its finish and machining as good as any other production line 1911 I have ever handled, yet he then went about producing a laundry list of so called "corrections" to the pistol required he said to make suitable for carry, by the time he had finished the price was almost $2400.00!
All that for a gun that was already proven to be 2" accurate at fifteen yards, and dead reliable with whatever we stuffed down its throat...


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