I've tried the 1911, and have had a few nice ones, but just can't get the love affair going. So they got traded off for things that work better for me. Now I'm at the stage where I look, but have not seen anything that I must have. I like where I am and am content.
I welded handles on my cast iron skillets cause we didn't have room for a stool
Imagine my poor wife. I bought her a stepladder so she could reach my face to smack me when needed. Incidentally, that thing gets a lot of use.
Maybe he should sell it and buy a CZ?
That's ridiculous. 1911s are safe to carry with a round chambered, hammer down or cocked. SAA's aren't. With very exceptions, every successful locked breech handgun since the 1911 has copied Browning's tilt breech locking mechanism. Other than frame material (and you can even get plastic and scandium frame 1911s now) what about the technology is so old?Personally, while I like and appreciate the 'romanticism' behind the 1911 gun, it is old technology. Good technology, functional technology, but old technology none-the-less. By the same token, while I like 'Old West' SAA Colts and clones, I wouldn't have one as an EDC, for the same reason.
Ambi safeties have been around for how many DECADES now, and you still think 1911s can't be made as lefty friendly as Glocks or SIGs?Being a lefty, when I started buying guns the 1911 was just 'wrong' for lefties. Ambidextrous thumb safeties weren't known, forcing a very awkward grip to manipulate the 'righty only' thumb safety.
With a proper grip the thumb safety is disengaged as a function of drawing and grasping the gun. If fine motor skills deteriorated as much people think they do no one could make a quick mag change.I've never really liked the idea of manual safeties, though. Under the duress and stress of an actual combat situation, it's just one more fine motor skill
Yet millions of people safely carry Glocks and similar striker fired pistols that have identical weight and length trigger pulls to 1911s, but have no manual safety.Don't care much for the 'cocked & locked' concept which is, really, the only effective way to carry a 1911 S/A. Some think it's 'okay' to carry a gun with the hammer cocked over a live round. Perhaps. I just don't happen to be one of those folks.
Just because other options work better for you doesn't mean that 1911s don't work better for other people. Insinuating that people only choose 1911s because of nostalgia rather than actual performance is hogwash.For those that are enamored of the '1911 Legend', more power to 'em. I understand it, and it's certainly their choice. I just prefer other options that work better for me.