Posted: 10/8/2009 3:20:55 PM EDT
Well a couple of my friends were talking up their Kimber 1911s and convinced me to get one. I looked around and came across this Springfield from a personal seller for $412.00, plus $40.00 for the transfer fee. I drove him over to the gun store and bought it they said I could get it hopefully on Saturday cause they have to transfer it into their inventory and then to me. My only complaint is that there is only one magazine with the gun what manufacture is pretty reliable. he store was out of them and they only have Kimber .
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looks nice, get some wilsons or cobras and be done with it. +1 get some wilson and tripp research mags. you may eventually want to polish the feedramp, but have someone experienced do it! if you want to swap the sights, my faves are 10-8 
grips? look into a pachymar wrap around grip. if you don't like the GI grip safety, maybe take a look at this: http://www.midwayusa.com/viewProduct/?productNumber=639454 Unless I'm mistaken, it's on this gun: 
Larry vickers built that gun as a replica of what he was first issued in Delta |
| Talked with a few guys and I am sending the slide to Novak tomorrow for some night sights, Thats gonna hurt the wallet but its the only thing I would want to change. still shopping for mags and will more than likely grab the wilson ones from brownells. This is a great pistol minus the sights ..hell I even like the factory grips. |
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Talked with a few guys and I am sending the slide to Novak tomorrow for some night sights, Thats gonna hurt the wallet but its the only thing I would want to change. The OEM mil-spec sights on these things are horrible for any kind of sport shooting. A small, hard to pick up front sight is not a good thing to have in a combat handgun. I too have a mil-spec SA & I changed the trigger to a long trigger as I have large hands. I also junked the cheap 2 piece OEM bbl & had a Wilson bbl installed. The thing now shoots as good as a Gold Cup, it just looks like a mil-spec. 
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Well a couple of my friends were talking up their Kimber 1911s and convinced me to get one. I looked around and came across this Springfield from a personal seller for $412.00, plus $40.00 for the transfer fee. I drove him over to the gun store and bought it they said I could get it hopefully on Saturday cause they have to transfer it into their inventory and then to me. My only complaint is that there is only one magazine with the gun what manufacture is pretty reliable. he store was out of them and they only have Kimber . http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2654/3993542151_5df51601ca_b.jpg nice purchase.
the springer factory mags are on sale on midway right now, like $12. these are what i use in my springer operator, always work too. don't waste your money spending $40 per mag on wilson, springer factory mags work fine.(use that money for ammo!) |
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I ordered 10 with the coupon inside the box I couldnt pass up on the price. I looked at some others but I cant justify it when I needed other things like night sights. you won't regret it! the springer factory mags work just fine! i got my springer used, so it didn't have that coupon 
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Quoted: Talked with a few guys and I am sending the slide to Novak tomorrow for some night sights, Thats gonna hurt the wallet but its the only thing I would want to change. still shopping for mags and will more than likely grab the wilson ones from brownells. This is a great pistol minus the sights ..hell I even like the factory grips. This is a good move. Novak's does EXCELLENT work. |