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- Aaaaaadmontin AB
Funny how life works sometimes ininnit? You start at the edge of Gun Geek Forest as a lad, you go in and slay dragons, take game, make friends...and when ya come out sometimes ya find you're right back where you started! So it goes for me.
When I was a kid I had no money. If it didn't come out of the bargain bin or off the used gun rack - it came out of the dumpster!
At the time I thought it sucked but now as an old fart that can buy anything he wants within reason - I remember those days with fondness.
Most fondly remembered was an Auto Ordnance .45 1911 clone I bought. Its former owner was some rich kid who had built it into a race grade comp gun for IPSC shooting. At the time it was a fairly new sport and the gun had the compensator, trigger job and all the farkles the cool kids decked their guns out with. In a moment of lunacy, the kid took off all the removable accessories and traded it for something flashier. My wonderful wife loaned me some money and I went in to debt to buy that gun - and it was the best $400.00 bucks I ever spent on ANY gun since.
You've heard the whoppers old farts tell about their guns but I will chit you not: that used gun was blessed by the gun gods. EVERYONE shot it well. Rookies would pick it up and grin with delight at the tight groups it produced. Semi-skilled pikers like me could cut playing cards in half with it off hand at 25 yards. The experts who owned Colt Gold Cups turned surly and sour when they shot better with my used junker than they did with their hot rods. All good things come to an end - and for me it was a cracked barrel bushing that did it. After thousands upon thousands (upon thousands) of rounds the bushing gave up and apparently the barrel and bushing are the heart and soul of a tack driving .45. I bought a couple bushings out of the used gun parts bin but nothing worked. The gun still shot - but not like she once did. I still have it downstairs...it's pretty much a paper weight now. My new ride is an HK .45 USP Tactical that I bought about 5 years ago. It's a good gun and an honest one...but it is not a GREAT gun like the old Auto Ordnance was.
Who is making a tack driving production 1911 these? I know I can get any number of boutique voodoo guns that are supposedly forged over volcanic fires by Tibetan monks from sacred steel...but I don't want that. I want a 1911 that can cut a playing card in half at 25 yards with adjustable sights when handled by a good shooter. I don't care about exotic materials of construction, or flash and bling to impress the girls and frighten the other gun geeks. I want a gun that can be bought from P&D, or the boys at Prophet River or any other of the top shelf reputable dealers.
Your recommendations (and two cents) are, as always sincerely appreciated
When I was a kid I had no money. If it didn't come out of the bargain bin or off the used gun rack - it came out of the dumpster!
At the time I thought it sucked but now as an old fart that can buy anything he wants within reason - I remember those days with fondness.Most fondly remembered was an Auto Ordnance .45 1911 clone I bought. Its former owner was some rich kid who had built it into a race grade comp gun for IPSC shooting. At the time it was a fairly new sport and the gun had the compensator, trigger job and all the farkles the cool kids decked their guns out with. In a moment of lunacy, the kid took off all the removable accessories and traded it for something flashier. My wonderful wife loaned me some money and I went in to debt to buy that gun - and it was the best $400.00 bucks I ever spent on ANY gun since.
You've heard the whoppers old farts tell about their guns but I will chit you not: that used gun was blessed by the gun gods. EVERYONE shot it well. Rookies would pick it up and grin with delight at the tight groups it produced. Semi-skilled pikers like me could cut playing cards in half with it off hand at 25 yards. The experts who owned Colt Gold Cups turned surly and sour when they shot better with my used junker than they did with their hot rods. All good things come to an end - and for me it was a cracked barrel bushing that did it. After thousands upon thousands (upon thousands) of rounds the bushing gave up and apparently the barrel and bushing are the heart and soul of a tack driving .45. I bought a couple bushings out of the used gun parts bin but nothing worked. The gun still shot - but not like she once did. I still have it downstairs...it's pretty much a paper weight now. My new ride is an HK .45 USP Tactical that I bought about 5 years ago. It's a good gun and an honest one...but it is not a GREAT gun like the old Auto Ordnance was.
Who is making a tack driving production 1911 these? I know I can get any number of boutique voodoo guns that are supposedly forged over volcanic fires by Tibetan monks from sacred steel...but I don't want that. I want a 1911 that can cut a playing card in half at 25 yards with adjustable sights when handled by a good shooter. I don't care about exotic materials of construction, or flash and bling to impress the girls and frighten the other gun geeks. I want a gun that can be bought from P&D, or the boys at Prophet River or any other of the top shelf reputable dealers.
Your recommendations (and two cents) are, as always sincerely appreciated
