ATTENTION COLT CANADA WE WANT 1911's!!!

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Lets see if we can put our combined strength in numbers (and money) to request that colt canada start a line of canadian made 1911's.

Who else wants one. (or more!)

I sure as heck would buy a couple.
 
Aren't they a rather small operation whose sole product are AR rifles?

Something that keeps the plant running near capacity as it is?

And if their talent is in the AR, then who is to say that they could even make a decent 1911.

I mean - even I can bolt together an AR. 1911 isn't quite so simple
 
Are you on crack?
there is no market for them to do so. Even if there was, people will complain that they are too expensive anyways... (just look at the 15.7 and SA20...)
The only way CC will ever make a pistol is that if DND ever succeed in the plan for replacement of the Inglis HP and that the model chosen is made under contract by CC. FYI, last RFP, there was no submission, so that program is in limbo (like most DND replacement programs...)
 
With the ammount of 1911's on the market I dont see these doing as well as you would think I personally wouldnt pay more for a colt Canada 1911 and the demand isnt as high as it is down south and colts are priced too high for the market/product as it is imo.
 
If the General Service Pistol ever got past the Merx solicitation stage it would be the only chance at seeing a CC pistol. Even if they started production of those and even if they could find a way to sell to civilians, it wouldn't be a 1911. It would be something striker fired with adjustable palm swells like an M&P.
 
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Colt has other things to worry about at present. They are on the brink of some serious financial problems in the US as a result of not getting the contracts they had been counting on. Heres hoping they can solve them before the wolf hits the door.
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There are already excellent Canadian made 1911's on the market - so please Colt Canada, don't get distracted by becoming another 1911 maker - keep putting out those excellent AR platform rifles, and maybe a CQB length option?? Thanks.
 
colt can't make a decent 1911 in the states where they've always made them, i doubt they'd do a better job up here. there's far better names to buy if you want a shooter
 
Cocked&Locked said:
colt can't make a decent 1911 in the states where they've always made them, i doubt they'd do a better job up here. there's far better names to buy if you want a shooter
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The current Colt 1911s are some of the best 1911s that have ever been built...by anyone.

A Colt Canada 1911, if you could somehow talk them into building one, would cost about five thousand bucks. And they would never do it. They didn't even want to built the C7. They got talked into it by the government and were extremely reluctant partners, on a guaranteed contract that made them a jillion dollars.

Forget the 1911. That will absolutely never, ever happen. Even though I would buy one, at $5000.
 
If I were a gun god, I would walk into the CEO's office at Colt, unannounced, and confront him with a 9mm Luger with one shell in the mag - and insist he do the right thing or have it done for him. After he had committed Seppuku, I would call a meeting for middle management in the board room, then excuse myself and chain the doors shut behind me. I would then run a pipe from the CEO's Cadillac exhaust pipe into the boardroom. Once the air cleared and the bodies were removed we could get down to business.

You can't run a gun company led by effeminate yuppies, beta male wieners, and their corporate sycophants and lickspittles. Colt was founded by men that were shooters, pioneers, and trail blazers. The first thing I would do is get one or several of those kind of guys on my team. I would do lunch with Les Baer, the boys at Wilson and Ed Brown and hand out an ultimatum: throw in with me and we succeed together - or I will poach your best people and steam roller you later. Those guys are building top notch guns and they aren't doing it with the lazy, over priced unionized pooch screwers that Colt is stuck with. I would probably grab a few gun geeks from up here in Canada too.

With proper leadership and tool hands - I would then put the fear of God Almighty into Ruger and S&W: I would bring back the snakes like the Pythons and the Anacondas and by Godfrey, they would hit the shelves with price tags comparable to the competition. Ruger and S&W can produce darn fine guns at reasonable prices and Colt can too. The Woodsman is not in the same ballpark that those tack driving Ruger and Browning autos are...but who knows what a little product development might bring? I would have the tall foreheads at the company working on new product ideas too.

Good grief. Colt helped build our two countries, it is a shame to see it betrayed and destroyed by them a century later.
 
CanAm said:
The gun market is in trouble because of lack of innovation, I doubt another 1911 will help
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Works for Harley! {trollface}

True, though. We have plenty enough retro guns out there to suit guys like me, and plenty of boutique guns to suit guys like me who make 5x what I do.

And what do we see? Same old modified Browning system guns with different shaped plastic to encapsulate them, for the most part, and knockoffs of existing designs, also repackaged (CZ clones must be second only to 1911 clones).

Just how many different 9mm pistols does a man need?

Probably the most creative thing I've seen recently was you guys bringing back the 7.62x25 from its little niche of obscurity by wrapping a modern pistol around it.
 
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misanthropist said:
The current Colt 1911s are some of the best 1911s that have ever been built...by anyone.
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They're pretty, but working behind the counting in a gun store, the only 1911's I had to send back for warranty where colts...and this was two years ago not twenty, when no one expected a colt to run out of the box anyways. When you drop 1800$ you shouldn't have sights falling off, or safteys that are improperly fitted and don't work properly. At one point i was up to 75% of the colt 1911's i had sold up to that point out for warranty repair. When people ask me what to buy I tell them colts are for showing off, collecting or investment, but if you want a shooter buy remington, kimber, ruger, sti....fill in the blank....er, but not para...though i'm waiting to see how the new ones pan out.

I want to like colt, they make a very handsome gun, but the ones I've owned I've sold as they where not great shooters, had lots of sharp (as in draw blood) edges, and wouldn't feed anything except FMJ; with what i sold the colts for, i could purchase on average 1.5-2 other pistols. If you've had good luck with them, I"m happy. I'd love to see them made (well) in canada, as tooling up with new equipment and modern practices out of the dimaco factory, i'm 99.9% sure we could build a better pistol then the ship out of the states.
 
just because, CC is a selling a few semi ar15s right now, does not mean they have any intrest in becoming parts of the Civie firearms market in Canada.
This is more of an overstock, end of product sale more then anything.
Nice product that it is, its not something you should get use to.
 
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They're pretty, but working behind the counting in a gun store, the only 1911's I had to send back for warranty where colts...and this was two years ago not twenty, when no one expected a colt to run out of the box anyways. When you drop 1800$ you shouldn't have sights falling off, or safteys that are improperly fitted and don't work properly. At one point i was up to 75% of the colt 1911's i had sold up to that point out for warranty repair. When people ask me what to buy I tell them colts are for showing off, collecting or investment, but if you want a shooter buy remington, kimber, ruger, sti....fill in the blank....er, but not para...though i'm waiting to see how the new ones pan out.

I want to like colt, they make a very handsome gun, but the ones I've owned I've sold as they where not great shooters, had lots of sharp (as in draw blood) edges, and wouldn't feed anything except FMJ; with what i sold the colts for, i could purchase on average 1.5-2 other pistols. If you've had good luck with them, I"m happy. I'd love to see them made (well) in canada, as tooling up with new equipment and modern practices out of the dimaco factory, i'm 99.9% sure we could build a better pistol then the ship out of the states.
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By far the highest percentage of out-of-the-box dependable 1911s I have seen have been Colt.
 
I am a big fan of colt 1911 and will buy it if Colt Canada ever produce it. But not in the high price mark.
Colt has build some very decent 1911 and run very good for it's price. I shoot IPSC Classic division with my XSE .45 complete stock and give me very good results. No FTF and FTE which my colt has over 23k gone through the pipe for the last 5 years. Just need the basic regular cleaning and change spring every 5K.
I highly doubt that Canada colt will build the 1911 unless CF has change their service pistol to 1911 platform.
 
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