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doug.anderson1943
I've shot a lot of pistols but I keep coming back to my mil-spec 1911. The pistol is well balanced and the trigger crisp and light. The +P ammo puts the fps over a thousand. I'm getting better with it at the range although it's a little hard on my arthritis. The only problem is carrying it. It's heavy. anybody carry a 1911?
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PainlessinTN
I carry my Tisas Bantam 45. In bear country, I open carry Springfield V-16 loaded with 45 Super.
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jetrinka
Carry mine every day
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marine.0311
I carry my Colt M45A1 every day all day in a Stoner Holster.And I am enjoying it until I get my Les Baer.
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Chance-dg
I carry a Pro or commander sized 1911 every day. No exceptions. but 2 of mine have aluminum frames which cuts back a touch on weight but I carry a steel framed 1911 also.
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It just shows the absolute genius of John Browning. I doubt that anyone had ever heard the word "ergonomic" in the early 1900s but he knew exactly how important it was. For years I always got a real kick out of handing someone a High Power who had never held one before and watching their reaction. "Wow! That feels like it was made for my hand." Everybody has the same reaction. Browning was a most amazing engineer. Hold a stripped 1911 frame in your hand and look closely at all the intricate machining that was done (in 1910) to make it work as well as it does. When I consider all the work necessary to make that frame I am astounded.
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Like my SA Mil Spec quite a bit, and carry it on occasion. Usually in a shoulder rig while riding ATV’s. But I’ve also carried it in a Sparks Summer Special with a good belt and it’s doable
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Sierra 49er
Carry my 5" 1911 IWB with a CompTac holster. Once used to the holster, including practicing drawing, the weight, the absence of printing, one hardly notices that it is there. Every time I leave the house, the 1911 comes along, even if it is a long day, rain, shine, etc., it seems that it is part of oneself.
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vbjeeper
Yes, I carry one of my 1911's every single day.

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tiribulus
drail said:
Browning was a most amazing engineer. Hold a stripped 1911 frame in your hand and look closely at all the intricate machining that was done (in 1910) to make it work as well as it does. When I considered all the work necessary to make that frame I was astounded.
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^^^Exactly this.^^^
And not just the frame of course. All the small working parts. The way his mind must have solved one hurdle after another to come up with a mechanism where everything was timed and worked as a system of smaller systems is astounding. Especially for a guy with no related formal education either.

I saw it the first time I had one down to the frame. I was saying to myself: "This man was a towering genius of the first order."
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Yes. In a WIlson Lo-proflle.
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tiribulus
Even the really small stuff like the design of the mainspring housing pin retainer/spring guide with it's cone shaped bottom that perfectly fills both functions. The spring also holds it in place and it in turn holds the pin in by interfacing with it's concentric slot. Using the existing tension in the mainspring.

It is at once ridiculously simple and pure genius. In fact, that it IS so simple and yet functionally perfect is what makes it genius.
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All day every day for over 30 years. This is what I have been carrying lately.


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stuartg74
My carry is Tisas 1911 Duty 9mm / in a 1791 Holster.


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Qualifying tomorrow for the church with this. Been using the leather at roughly 4 o’clock and wearing one of those ratchet type belts (kore?). I like the weight but I suffer from a rather flat hind end. Fortunate to have a compact in 45 and this one in the pic is 9mm. Button down shirts untucked seem to work their way above the butt exposing the firearm, so I am pretty consistently plucking at my starboard side shirt tail.
Can of tomato soup (12oz) more than a fully loaded Glock 19 and I’m losing 6 rounds
Long live the 1911
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doug.anderson1943 said:
I've shot a lot of pistols but I keep coming back to my mil-spec 1911. The pistol is well balanced and the trigger crisp and light. The +P ammo puts the fps over a thousand. I'm getting better with it at the range although it's a little hard on my arthritis. The only problem is carrying it. It's heavy. anybody carry a 1911?
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Sure do. My most comfortable holster is an old Thomas Perfectionist from Kramer that IIRC was bought when I had the Colt Series 80 or the Dan Wesson Pointman/Patriot. The holster is unbelievably good, the two 1911s were horrid.




The key for me with the Kramer Thomas Perfectionist is to order the belt width and use that width belt only.

I have quite a few other holsters that work well even for all day carry, ones from 1791 and Milt Sparks and Safariland and High Noon and several Kydex and even Bucheimer and likely several others I haven't mentioned; IWB and OWB and Shoulder but none are as comfortable as the old Kramer.
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Every day, all steel in a Milt Sparks Criterion IWB.
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tiribulus
stuartg74 said:
My carry is Tisas 1911 Duty 9mm / in a 1791 Holster. View attachment 681713 View attachment 681714

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Wait a minute.1931? Another new model they slipped in on us? :)
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You're at the correct address, this ain't Glock Talk:LOL:
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1977loadstar
My currentfav kimber (light weight) only 31.2 ounces w/o mag.With mag probably 40 . And alum slide forge frame its awesome to shoot.
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