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I've noticed a few 1911s produced by these guys chambered in 22lr and they are half the price of a kimber. Does anyone know anything about these guns or the company?
 
I have one. It's actually better than the Kimber.

The Kimber 1911-22 is way too light, and the slide does not lock back on empty.

I put a box of 555 rounds through my GSG every other week. Great gun.
 
Mine's been accurate and reliable. Gone through about 500 rds of various bulk ammo- Win. 333-555, Win. Dynapoint black box(seems to be the best in most guns I shoot) and Federal 525 Champion.
 
"General consensus seems to be that these are very decent. They also have a lot of room to personalize since many "real" 1911 parts fit nicely"

Yeah; The first thing I did with mine was replace the arched mainspring housing with a flat one. Then I replaced the wood grips with polymer Punisher grips.

Very cool gun.
 
GSG 1911 .22lr

brybenn said:
I've noticed a few 1911s produced by these guys chambered in 22lr and they are half the price of a kimber. Does anyone know anything about these guns or the company?
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They are a very nice dedicated .22lr pistol in 1911 format.

I have one that has had about 2K thru it so far. I love it.

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NAA.
 
The first, I don't like aluminum/steel friction pair working under impact load. Second,
I don't like how aluminum behaves when it is in contact with powder fouling.
 
"When I found somewhere it has an aluminum frame I lost interest to this pistol."

Well the Kimber 1911-22 is all aluminum. And the price is two or three times that of the GSG.
 
I had an aluminum alloy wheel gun made in Germany (.22lr) and my frame split and the rear sight flew up and hit the ceiling. So, even if the subject gun is the big ol' feared .22 caliber, its still possible that aluminum may not be the best material for a gun.......JMHO
I'm sure aluminum components work fine in thousands of pistols, but my hand stung a little after that, and it made me leery of non-steel handguns.
 
If there was a problem with aluminum framed guns I doubt there would be millions of SIG SAUER's or Norc SIG copies with happy owners out there. You certainly would hear some crying and moaning if a $1200 SIG had any kind of flaw.

This GSG looks like a nice little gun, probably needs more time for problems with anybody's to pop up. For the price it looks like a good deal. Less expensive than a S&W 422 I'd say.
 
some of the original ones had cheap pot metal barrel bushing that would break and fly out causing the loss of the recoil spring and plunger. Happened to me. Blue line took the pistol back and fixed the gun. Apparently all of the new models have a better bushing, also any 1911 steel bushing will fit in the gsg. The rubber recoil buffer also gets pounded flat and mishaped quite quickly. Ive had two pounded out already. This being said the gun has closed to 3000 rounds through it and litterally will not jam no matter what I try, with every kind of 22lr ammo Ive put through it. Shot side by side with a $200 higher priced sig misquito which literally jammed 2-3 times per mag with any kind of ammo put through it (even after cleaning no matter what was tried) the gsg blew the sig out of the water. Also decently accurate and a nicer trigger pull than the sig but apparently not that great compared to most full sized 1911's. I read a post on here about the ambi safety breaking and being made of the same pot metal as the bushing. The sights are plastic and will strip if you overtighten the set screw. The finish on the front of the side wears off rather quickly. Overall a very nice reliable and decently acurate gun especially for the really low price. Just be aware of some of the issues that can happen.
 
"The finish on the front of the slide wears off rather quickly."

Yeah, mine has a bit of that going on.

I'm thinking about getting those Arma-coat guys to do their magic on it.

I've seen some of their refinished Norincos that look nicer than a $1200 Kimber.
 
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