New Colt 45's for sale

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There are COLTs for sale at Ellwood Epps, Wolverine, Shooting Edge, and CRAFN.
If it's not a COLT, its just a COPY!
 
I have always wondered what a fair price for a Colt is. What's the going rate of a 1991A1 anyways? I have seen hundreds of dollars of variation.
 
IMHO.

They're ALL copies, including Colt's version.

All are patterned after John Moses Browning's original design.

Of course there are departures from the original design. like the 1911A1, Commanders, series 80 guns, etc.
Other manufacturers brought in wide-bodied pistols, beaver-tails, ambi safeties, and better sights.

Colt itself has incorporated some of these design improvements in their own pistols.

I like Colt 1911 style pistols well enough to currently have three of them in my gun-boxes.:)

I also own other non-Colt copies of the 1911 design.;)

I like them too.:D
 
Halger280HVMag said:
IMHO.

They're ALL copies, including Colt's version.

All are patterned after John Moses Browning's original design.

Of course there are departures from the original design. like the 1911A1, Commanders, series 80 guns, etc.
Other manufacturers brought in wide-bodied pistols, beaver-tails, ambi safeties, and better sights.

Colt itself has incorporated some of these design improvements in their own pistols.

I like Colt 1911 style pistols well enough to currently have three of them in my gun-boxes.:)

I also own other non-Colt copies of the 1911 design.;)

I like them too.:D
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Bingo! Couldn't have said it better!

Colt's Manufacturing Company LLC (the current incarnation of the company that did manufacture the first 1911s) does make some quality 1911s, but that have no more in common with the "original" than any of the better 1911s coming out from other quality manufacturers and, even more so, from some of the smaller high-end production/ semi-custom shops. :)
 
Halger280HVMag said:
IMHO.

They're ALL copies, including Colt's version.

All are patterned after John Moses Browning's original design.

Of course there are departures from the original design. like the 1911A1, Commanders, series 80 guns, etc.
Other manufacturers brought in wide-bodied pistols, beaver-tails, ambi safeties, and better sights.

Colt itself has incorporated some of these design improvements in their own pistols.

I like Colt 1911 style pistols well enough to currently have three of them in my gun-boxes.:)

I also own other non-Colt copies of the 1911 design.;)

I like them too.:D
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?? If a Colt is "just a copy" then I really don't think you understand the development of the 1911.

Take a look at the development guns in @1908-1910.

Ie) Browning didn't walk into Colt's and say, "make this and pay me royalty fees". He was certainly not the only person involved in designing the gun which was adopted by the US Army. In fact from what I understand, the Army demanded changes and then Colt's had to make them and have the army approve the changes.

Browning is responsible for the swinging link and locking system, and the general idea of componants, but Colt took the gun and over @4 years redesigned to to meet the Ordinance Corps specs. From what I understand, even then Colt's then had to redesign a number of the componant parts to address breakage issues experienced @1911-1913...
 
Some of you guys are overly react to the term of copy. We all copy the others. Everything that we bought is a copy of the others. STI, Wilson they are all copies. But who care? as long as the quality are good and price are right.

Trigun
 
Trigun said:
Some of you guys are overly react to the term of copy. We all copy the others. Everything that we bought is a copy of the others. STI, Wilson they are all copies. But who care? as long as the quality are good and price are right.
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Yeah!

Even Colts are not original: MIM parts, firing pin block et al.

FWIW, I do not want to have an original 1911. I heard their steel wasn't as good as Norinco's:D
 
I bought my original Colt a little while back, it's an M1911 that was shipped to the Canadian government in 1914 with the paper from Colt saying so. That's a real Colt .45 Automatic. :)

I appreciate that Colt as a company is still going, all these years later. They have the sole right to brand their wares "Colt" and that still and will always stand for something very important. Those with Norinco collections can keep them, and we're killing our Western companies by supporting Norinco. I hope more start buying Colts.
 
I seized a Canadian 1911 (NOT A1) for destruction once - No matter how hard I tried to convince the owner to get it sold, for history's sake, they still insisted on having it melted.

Made me sad, and angry.
 
Ardent said:
I bought my original Colt a little while back, it's an M1911 that was shipped to the Canadian government in 1914 with the paper from Colt saying so. That's a real Colt .45 Automatic. :)

I appreciate that Colt as a company is still going, all these years later. They have the sole right to brand their wares "Colt" and that still and will always stand for something very important. Those with Norinco collections can keep them, and we're killing our Western companies by supporting Norinco. I hope more start buying Colts.
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You may be right, I would like to support our former Canadian gun maker Para instead of buying other company's guns, they were the first company that I contact right after I got my pal at 2001 but several email without any reply...
I don't think buying guns from Norinco is killing western business because they just a very small numbers. Infect did Chinese grovernment did any bad things to Canada? I don't think so.

Trigun
 
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