1911 high-cap opinions
- Thread starter Doogs
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I'd say no I have a Para Hi Cap and I have larger palms but very short and stubby fingers and I find the grip just right. All I can say is if you can get you're hands on one to hold and if possible shoot. Even if some of us on here like them and have shorter or smallish hands/fingers doesn't mean you will.
ambishooter
CGN frequent flyer
- Location
- Southeastern Canuckstan
best one is the 2011 sti - especially if clarence redoes the grip- all others are kinda bulky...
gunnar
very nice!
Pudelpointer
CGN frequent flyer
- Location
- Lethbridge, Alberta
Short answer, yes they are too fat for human sized hands. If you have gorilla fingers, maybe a different story.
Why, if you don't mind me asking are you looking for a double stack? If you want to load 10+1 then get 10 round extended single stack mags.
CAN you shoot a large gripped DS 1911 with smaller hands.... Yes, but chances are you will never shoot it as well as a single stack that fits your hand properly. A (single stack) 1911 has a natural point-ability for most shooters.
- Location
- Lower Mainland BC
I personally prefer a 1911 45ACP pistol in single stack, but if ever I want a hi-cap 45ACP pistol I'd go for a H&K 45.
- Location
- Fort St John B.C.
the biggest advantage to the double stack mags is on your reloads, the tapered top of the mag and the big doublestack hole just make the magazine whisper in there like throwing a hotdog down a hallway.
I am of the opinion that double stacking a 1911 is a bad idea. I have it on very good authority (guy I used to know in OC SWAT when I was shopping for my first slab-sides) and I have seen it first hand, the operator of the firearm had a stoppage rate of one in four on one mag and one in five on the next. He called it a day and sold it to a guy who likes race guns. It may make a good competition pistol, but if you ever needed to rely on it to save your life, I would put money on the other guy.
If you can wear L gloves, and the Glock 19 fits you well, you'll find that you can shoot and manage a double-stack Para-Ordnance with no problem. Carrying it IWB is another story (YMMV). Naturally, one would pre-suppose that the double-stack Para is not wearing oversized aftermarket grips...for that too would be another story.
A double-stack STI/SVI/2011, however, is noticeably thinner and is much closer to a single-stack 1911 (than is the double-stack Para frame) in both circumference and subjective feel. If it fits your budget, buy it.
Neither the double-stack Para-Ordnance nor the double-stack STI/SVI/2011 pistols are too fat for medium sized hands.
There are more double stack 1911 based pistols in use in competition right now than any other type. So no feeding isn't a problem. That gun you speak of had mag or ammo problems. Not the gun.
Being that we live where we do, worrying about defensive pistol issues would be and is pointless also.
