Posted: 1/9/2011 6:26:03 AM EDT
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I have 2 kimbers. One pro tle/rl and a custom ii. Both run great, never had a problem with either. I was carrying the pro with the rail the other day and it felt a little awkward, the rail was defiantly noticeable on my hip after a while.
I was wondering if anyone has put their kimber pro slide on their full size frame?? Will a Wilson 4" slide work with the full-size frame. Seems like companies are only making 4" slides for compacts vs 4.25" these days I want to keep what I have and just make some changes to my full-size for carrying. |
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Quoted: I have 2 kimbers. One pro tle/rl and a custom ii. Both run great, never had a problem with either. I was carrying the pro with the rail the other day and it felt a little awkward, the rail was defiantly noticeable on my hip after a while. I was wondering if anyone has put their kimber pro slide on their full size frame?? Will a Wilson 4" slide work with the full-size frame. Seems like companies are only making 4" slides for compacts vs 4.25" these days. I want to keep what I have and just make some changes to my full-size for carrying. I have swapped slides between a Colt Commander and a Colt OACP with no problems. Also, Colt still makes 4.25" Commanders in both all steel and LW.  |
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I'd love to buy another gun but dint have the $ or room for it. Otherwise a colt commander would-be in order.
I just measured the pro and gov frames and the rails of the pro are shorter than the gov by 1/4" roughly. This can cause reliability issues? Any leads on a 4.25 slides?? |
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Quoted: I'd love to buy another gun but dint have the $ or room for it. Otherwise a colt commander would-be in order. I just measured the pro and gov frames and the rails of the pro are shorter than the gov by 1/4" roughly. This can cause reliability issues? Any leads on a 4.25 slides?? Caspian Go to: SS 4.25 Slides $241.23 Carbon are $214.50  |
| Still, the military swapped around parts including frames and slides for almost 100 years. Many M1911s and M1911A1s are 'mixmasters' with 'wrong' slides. As far as swapping between different barrel-length pistols, that's probably not going to be good as already stated. And theoretically you would want to keep a factory frame/slide assembly together anyway. Using different slides probably will induce additional clearance in both the frame and slide if shot a lot. Once they are broken in together they should stay that way. |
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Still, the military swapped around parts including frames and slides for almost 100 years. Many M1911s and M1911A1s are 'mixmasters' with 'wrong' slides. Are you trying to tell us that the United States didn't suddenly grow/train an army of master gunsmiths to assemble 1911A1s by the millions during WWII? Are you saying that not every soldier/armorer who worked on 1911A1s was an experienced gunsmith in civilian life? But I thought 1911 style pistols were unreliable unless they were sent to an experienced master who charged big $$$$ to work it over! 
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Still, the military swapped around parts including frames and slides for almost 100 years. Many M1911s and M1911A1s are 'mixmasters' with 'wrong' slides. Are you trying to tell us that the United States didn't suddenly grow/train an army of master gunsmiths to assemble 1911A1s by the millions during WWII? Are you saying that not every soldier/armorer who worked on 1911A1s was an experienced gunsmith in civilian life? But I thought 1911 style pistols were unreliable unless they were sent to an experienced master who charged big $$$$ to work it over! And all those 1911s and 1911a1 were built to the same standard (spec), You do not have this in todays world. Parts come oversized from a lot of manufs Far as the part manuf know your trying to put lipstick on a pig, so they try to adjust giving you some extra material to work with. |