Based on this picture of my own CCO, you might be able to guess at what I'm about to say.
Get a DW CCO and you won't be disappointed. I was shooting mine this morning and smiling the whole time.
Get a Les Baer and you won't be disappointed. Get an Ed Brown and you won't be disappointed.
Any of them are fantastic guns. Firearms instill more brand loyalty and bigotry than just about anything else, it seems.
Here's the thing. If you want a Corvette, don't go drive a Ferrari first. Of course the opposite doesn't hold true, if you can get a Ferrari then drive all the Vettes you want, it won't change your mind about the Ferrari.
1911s come in all flavors in a CCO package. How much do you want to spend? Why not a T3 from Nighthawk? Why not a Wilson CQB Compact? The sky's the limit (if your wallet is the sky, that is).
My point is that really, once you pass a certain price point then you really are down to which gun causes a pleasant emotional response in you when you see it. Because most of them at those price points and higher are going to be damn nice reliable weapons. If a Dan Wesson CCO does it for you, then get one. I promise you'll be happy. I love mine but I guarantee I won't shoot a Wilson or Nighthawk because then I might love it just a little less.
And I'm going to ruffle some feathers here but it drives me nuts when people say, "Get a Colt, throw a reliability package and some other parts on it." If you are buying something you think you are immediately going to have to fix, well, I think I'll look elsewhere(I own one of those Colts, BTW. It's had TWO Wilson reliability packages now and is in bad need of a third apparently). Yes all 1911s, even expensive custom ones, may need tuned, but to buy a Colt
planning on tuning it? C'mon. How many people do you hear say, "Buy a 6920 and throw another $400 into it and it'll be better than most other ARs"?
My CCO-owning two cents.
p.s. Get the CCO
p.s.s. I do agree with multiple above posters. DW has potentially priced itself out of the niche it built for itself. While I might think it's as good as a Les Baer for the same money as a Les Baer...well we all know what "as good as" is worth around here. Also, it is built quite tightly. Now so are Ed Browns. Tight doesn't necessarily mean unreliable but I will agree that it does take some TLC when stripping and cleaning. It shoots everything for me, however.
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