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Link Posted: 9/11/2024 1:47:43 PM EST
[#1]
I first wore a 1911A1 on my hip about about 37 years ago.
I was a 60 gunner.

And I shamefully admit I have never had my own true 1911.
I don’t have any 2011s or 2011 style 45s either.

I do have a handful of the first double stack 1911s.
From Canada, like one set of my grandparents.




Link Posted: 9/11/2024 1:51:53 PM EST
[#2]
A properly smithed and previous jam-o-matic Colt:



Same as above:


This is a completely unmodified Kimber Custom Target, released prior to the availability of stainless controls, just to get a stainless model on the market.  It has been around a while.  I took it out of the box at the gun counter and walked out to the range and fired a flawless IDPA match with it.  I have used it in several matches and it has been 100%, which I can't say for any other make of 1911 that I have owned.


Link Posted: 9/11/2024 1:52:28 PM EST
[#3]
A Franken-45 I put together with a RI double stack frame.
First effort and didn't require much finessing. Never had a FTF or malfunction.

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Link Posted: 9/11/2024 1:57:59 PM EST
[#4]
10mm and a 45 ACP. Both are great to shoot

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Link Posted: 9/11/2024 1:58:49 PM EST
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Link Posted: 9/11/2024 1:59:58 PM EST
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Link Posted: 9/11/2024 2:27:43 PM EST
[#7]
Just picked this one up last week.
Ronin 4.25"  .45
 I added the stocks, ambi safety, and green pipe in the front sight.
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Link Posted: 9/11/2024 2:32:01 PM EST
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Link Posted: 9/11/2024 2:34:29 PM EST
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@carcrazysammy
Nothing classier than a well used 1911. Any idea how
Many rounds you have through it?
Link Posted: 9/11/2024 2:39:31 PM EST
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Link Posted: 9/11/2024 2:43:39 PM EST
[#11]
Only pics I have in hand. Have a couple more.




Link Posted: 9/11/2024 2:48:52 PM EST
[#12]
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Alchemy custom prime. Tightest gun I’ve ever felt in person.


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2 Baers, one set of mammoth and one elephant ivory. Bad pics but what I got handy.
Link Posted: 9/11/2024 2:50:19 PM EST
[#13]
Ivory and Steel compact… no plastic allowed.



Next to the Big Baer…

Link Posted: 9/11/2024 2:52:03 PM EST
[#14]
US M1911 made in 1918.
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Yeah, it's a Charles Daly, but I like the color case hardened frame.
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CMP M1911A1 Remington Rand with GI replacement slide. This one spent a bunch of years at the Naval Observatory in Washington, DC.
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1960's DCM Colt M1911 from the Red River Arsenal.
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Tisas Aviator.
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Link Posted: 9/11/2024 2:53:23 PM EST
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Colt Gunsite
Link Posted: 9/11/2024 2:54:01 PM EST
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Link Posted: 9/11/2024 3:05:21 PM EST
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Link Posted: 9/11/2024 3:10:08 PM EST
[#18]
I only have the double stack variety

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Link Posted: 9/11/2024 3:16:43 PM EST
[#19]
I carried a Sig STX for several years and put close to 15,000 rounds through it.  Great production gun.   However once you try a full custom 1911, nothing else compares
Link Posted: 9/11/2024 3:25:36 PM EST
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Link Posted: 9/11/2024 3:42:22 PM EST
[#21]
If you don't have an arched mainspring housing and a lanyard ring, you're missing out on half the experience.



The blue one is a Colt in .38 Super, the park'd one is an Ithaca frame Remington Rand slide M1911A1 from CMP.

I need a 10mm.  I can't afford one, but I want one.
Link Posted: 9/11/2024 3:51:46 PM EST
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Link Posted: 9/11/2024 4:06:52 PM EST
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Link Posted: 9/11/2024 4:19:15 PM EST
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@carcrazysammy
Nothing classier than a well used 1911. Any idea how
Many rounds you have through it?
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60-70,000 rounds looking at my reloading log.

It has been through 3 or 4 extractors (15,000 round lifespan give or take), and went back to Springfield about 6 months ago as the trigger was acting weird. They put a new edge on the sear and sent it back. Amazingly all the small parts aside from the extractors and springs are original.
Link Posted: 9/11/2024 4:22:50 PM EST
[#25]
Tisas I picked up recently

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Link Posted: 9/11/2024 4:41:44 PM EST
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Link Posted: 9/11/2024 5:49:30 PM EST
[#29]
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Alchemy Prime:

https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/509384/1000002053-3247512.jpg

Springfield Loaded:

https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/509384/1000002563-3296555.jpg

Dan Wesson Specialist 10mm:

https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/509384/1000002484-3253560.jpg

Colt Competition Stainless .38 Super (currently at Evolution Armory)

https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/509384/1000002423-3246965.jpg

I have a Sig Scorpion Carry too but no pics of it.
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That’s prime is pure sex.
Link Posted: 9/11/2024 5:55:57 PM EST
[#31]
Love them.



Not a good photo, but it covers the basics.
Link Posted: 9/11/2024 6:03:29 PM EST
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Link Posted: 9/11/2024 6:38:04 PM EST
[#34]
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If you don't have an arched mainspring housing and a lanyard ring, you're missing out on half the experience.

https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53988417536_a2c1973e6c_b.jpg

The blue one is a Colt in .38 Super, the park'd one is an Ithaca frame Remington Rand slide M1911A1 from CMP.

I need a 10mm.  I can't afford one, but I want one.
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I prefer the arched MSH myself, and replaced the flat one on my Colt Competition Series with an arched S&A mag guide. I should have gotten the lanyard ring one.

I do at least have that combo on my '44 Colt.

Link Posted: 9/11/2024 6:48:37 PM EST
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Link Posted: 9/11/2024 6:57:12 PM EST
[#36]
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My Taylor 10mm
https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/211511/20221123_143506_jpg-3319302.JPG

This gun is nothing special on its own. Basic RIA .45 Commander.  What is special is that it was one of the last gifts I gave my father. A 1911 was one of his grail guns. Too cheap to even buy a budget one for himself. 6 months later he was diagnosed w cancer. He got to shoot it once before getting too sick.  Once he passed I got it back with the rest of his collection.
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Sorry about your dad. That's a very sad/nice story.


@colt_thompson
What wall hangers are you using in that picture?
Link Posted: 9/11/2024 7:07:30 PM EST
[#37]
Same old pic.  I haven’t shot it in awhile and need to take it to the range.

Link Posted: 9/11/2024 7:08:14 PM EST
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Link Posted: 9/11/2024 7:16:28 PM EST
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I can't believe I made it in before the external extractor hate.
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I’m polite about it, but it’s fucking gross. Like a smokin hot woman with a huge outie.
Link Posted: 9/11/2024 7:23:39 PM EST
[#41]
STX here, too.

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Link Posted: 9/11/2024 7:24:26 PM EST
[#42]
M1911 made in 1917

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M1911A1 made in 1941

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Link Posted: 9/11/2024 7:24:42 PM EST
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Link Posted: 9/11/2024 7:30:49 PM EST
[#44]
I'm a fan and have a few of them, from budget to pimptastic.



















Link Posted: 9/11/2024 7:33:59 PM EST
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I must admit, there are a few there I would like to have.
Link Posted: 9/11/2024 7:38:20 PM EST
[#47]
Just a couple of mine.


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Link Posted: 9/11/2024 7:40:58 PM EST
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Link Posted: 9/11/2024 7:42:36 PM EST
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Link Posted: 9/11/2024 7:47:47 PM EST
[#50]
I couldn’t resist the 100th anniversary. I expect it will be the only 1911 I ever own. Don’t hate shooting it, but two mags and I’m good.

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