Dan Wesson 1911's and rusting

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For all Dan Wesson 1911 owners...have you experienced any rusting with your 1911's?

I noticed a YouTuber/Dan Wesson 1911 owner who was upset with his 1911 because the hammer was rusting. Claimed another popular YouTuber with a gun review channel "Beretta9mmUSA" was having rusting issues with their collection of Dan Wesson 1911's...rewatched a few of their DW videos. Didn't them mentioning it.

What are your experiences with your DW 1911's? How long have you owned your guns? Do you all store them in temp/humid controlled safes? Happy? That was just one YouTuber. Who knows what he does with his 1911 once it's outside the safe.
 
Some people are known to carry them IWB under a shirt, a damp (if not wet) shirt, all day, every day.
 
Wendell said:
Some people are known to carry them IWB under a shirt, a damp (if not wet) shirt, all day, every day.
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As I said. It's hard to say what some people do with their guns. If they're fro the USA then yeah they could be carrying IWB or be using a shoulder holster. :) Maybe it's just his DW 1911. I'm considering the Specialist in Gov't....
 
I was just about to update my post and mention it's the hammer and whether or not the gun had a duty coating. Do you know how we'd know if the model had duty coating? Which DW do you own? The one mentioned in that YouTube video was the Heritage. An "older one"...I'm guessing if any one were to buy one (Heritage....I'm considering a Specialist) today in 2021 it would have a duty coated hammer.
 
YouTube is getting worse and worse with "look this gun jams/rust/break" clickbaits. Treat youtube as an form of entertainment and not gospel.
 
mebiuspower said:
YouTube is getting worse and worse with "look this gun jams/rust/break" clickbaits. Treat youtube as an form of entertainment and not gospel.
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They could eliminate 'clickbait' if they wanted, just by changing the payment model so that - unless the entire video was watched - there'd be no 'view' counted, and no payment. It seems simple enough to me.

If there was no payment, there might still be enticing pictures and titles, but there'd be no incentive to mis-label or otherwise create deceptive or poorly-produced products, because - unless the entire video was watched - there'd be no 'view', and no money.
 
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mebiuspower said:
YouTube is getting worse and worse with "look this gun jams/rust/break" clickbaits. Treat youtube as an form of entertainment and not gospel.
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Definitely take YouTube videos with a grain of salt. Especially the lest known ones made by Joe Nobody's. Without the corporate sponsorship...though they might have an agenda (promoting that sponsorship company's guns/accessories). Even the channels run by ex-military (so they claim to be..even civilians can sort of tell who really were ex-MIL or not..but it does make me wonder why an ex-sniper would announce it then show his face on a YouTube channel or any SF guy...if I were one of them I'd want to "disappear" and blend in. Have a life where I wouldn't need to watch my back).

Any how...as I said...it was the non-Duty coated hammer on a Heritage that was rusting. Only 2 reports so...you'd think they wouldn't make that up just to have content for their YouTube channel.

So, does any one know if all DW 1911's sold after lets say Dec 2018 are all Duty Coated? Slide/hammer.

I mean it's not a big thing. If the hammer is rusting one could just order a Wilson Combat hammer and swap it in. Cheap.
 
After owning and selling 2 high quality 1911's, I bought a Dan Wesson PM-9....absolutely great pistol.
 
For the 2 guys who's DW 1911 was Duty coated...how old are your guns? Which ones do you own? I'm just trying to get an idea on when CZ/DW might have finally put Duty Coating on the hammer. After 2018?
 
mebiuspower said:
YouTube is getting worse and worse with "look this gun jams/rust/break" clickbaits. Treat youtube as an form of entertainment and not gospel.
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I don't remember which tacticool channel, the guy has a ginger tactibeard thing going and likes to show off his tactiskills, but he's damn hard on things. Really hard. And then when something happens goes off on a rant. He's not wrong, not right either. When people are that hard on equipment: cars, trucks, machines, electronics, etc, the end result is self-fulfilling. Which is why I prefer Hickok and others, although I still watch the rammy toughguy tacticool dudes just to see if there's any validation to the claims.
 
Just found out that perhaps DW only puts their Duty Finish ALSO on their hammers on their "Distressed finish" 1911's. Not on the stainless steel versions. At least that's what I heard from a YouTube gun channel. BERETTA9mmUSA (father son...father is a LEO so they said)...

So, I guess those 2 that commented and said they had no rust problems had DW with the "distressed finish". People buying the Stainless version will want to pickup a drop-in hammer from Wilson Combat in addition...or have the hammers swapped before they pickup their new 1911.

Gripe. Why can't DW put their "DW" logo on one side of the gun (right...behind the serrations) to give the otherwise great guns a "finished" look. I mean for almost all products you have 3 things almost always...brand name (e.g. Wilson Combat), model name (e.g. Classic) and brand emblem/icon (WC has one, Colt..etc.)
 
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