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ferider said:
A case for a good holster:

Took me a while to find the right holster for my 986. Then, my other two pistols went along :)

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Do those holsters allow you to carry your 1911s cocked and locked?
 
91bravo said:
Do those holsters allow you to carry your 1911s cocked and locked?
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Good question.

No, not with thumb break closed. With this holster, I have to carry IDF style (I read up on that one, 1911 carry style apparently depends on the country :) )

Of course, you could leave the thumb break open, the holster still has enough retention. And the maker has open holster alternatives ....
 
ferider said:
Good question.

No, not with thumb break closed. With this holster, I have to carry IDF style (I read up on that one, 1911 carry style apparently depends on the country :) )

Of course, you could leave the thumb break open, the holster still has enough retention. And the maker has open holster alternatives ....
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IDF style would limit you one less round, which a 1911 is already lacking in that department! Never understood carrying a pistol without a round in the chamber.
 
G-21s with a TLR-1, carried in a Safariland drop-leg holster were our duty rigs. We had training day once a month, and the weather always sucked. It was either 100 degrees, pouring down rain, or freezing cold with wind & snow. Our training officer loved to see us crawling through the mud or snow, or some other sadistic stuff, then we had range time at the end of the day. Those G-21s were great, big, fat, ugly 2X4s, but I don't remember ever seeing one malfunction.

I kept all my 9mm Glocks & Sigs, but I gave my G-21 & G-30 to my son. The only .45s I have now are the 1911s. The way God intended.:)
 
Ironbut said:
G-21s with a TLR-1, carried in a Safariland drop-leg holster were our duty rigs. We had training day once a month, and the weather always sucked. It was either 100 degrees, pouring down rain, or freezing cold with wind & snow. Our training officer loved to see us crawling through the mud or snow, or some other sadistic stuff, then we had range time at the end of the day. Those G-21s were great, big, fat, ugly 2X4s, but I don't remember ever seeing one malfunction.

I kept all my 9mm Glocks & Sigs, but I gave my G-21 & G-30 to my son. The only .45s I have now are the 1911s. The way God intended.:)
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I’ve owned three 1911s in my lifetime and all 3 of them gave me problems. FTF, FTE, double feeds, stovepipes, etc. One of them was a really nice MkIV series 70 pre-safety plunger. It had the sweetest trigger I’ve ever pulled in a handguN, but would choke on hollow point ammo. Ball rounds fed just fine. I’ve pretty much written off 1911s as a reliable weapon of choice.
 
91bravo said:
I’ve owned three 1911s in my lifetime and all 3 of them gave me problems. FTF, FTE, double feeds, stovepipes, etc. One of them was a really nice MkIV series 70 pre-safety plunger. It had the sweetest trigger I’ve ever pulled in a handguN, but would choke on hollow point ammo. Ball rounds fed just fine. I’ve pretty much written off 1911s as a reliable weapon of choice.
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I have a Wilson CQB, Springfield TRP, and Rangemaster, and an Sig compact 1911. The Sig's the only one that ever gave me problems, but it's just picky about what mags to use. The 1911s do require more attention to cleaning & lube than a Glock, Sig, HK, though. I've been shooting 1911s since Marine boot camp in 1966, so although I'm far from a gunsmith, I have become kind of a 1911 mechanic over the years.
 
91bravo said:
I’ve owned three 1911s in my lifetime and all 3 of them gave me problems. FTF, FTE, double feeds, stovepipes, etc. One of them was a really nice MkIV series 70 pre-safety plunger. It had the sweetest trigger I’ve ever pulled in a handguN, but would choke on hollow point ammo. Ball rounds fed just fine. I’ve pretty much written off 1911s as a reliable weapon of choice.
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Not to impugn anyone else's skills, but from my years as a salesman and my love for the 1911 (I still carry one myself) they are just not beginner guns. Production 1911s have come a very long way from the 90s and earlier, but even then some still require a bit of gunsmithing/tuning to be truly reliable. I think that is part of why I personally love them, other than the mechanics and triggers. Just like knives, I really just am not interested in a firearm that I can't put my own personal stamp on, but I have been trained by a gunsmith to do my own work. Also, magazines are usually the first stop for those of us who run our 1911s into the ground. I prefer McCormick RPM mags, but Wilsons are great as well.

Here is what I have been carrying lately, a Willey Clapp CCO.

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hkssr20det said:
Not to impugn anyone else's skills, but from my years as a salesman and my love for the 1911 (I still carry one myself) they are just not beginner guns. Production 1911s have come a very long way from the 90s and earlier, but even then some still require a bit of gunsmithing/tuning to be truly reliable. I think that is part of why I personally love them, other than the mechanics and triggers. Just like knives, I really just am not interested in a firearm that I can't put my own personal stamp on, but I have been trained by a gunsmith to do my own work. Also, magazines are usually the first stop for those of us who run our 1911s into the ground. I prefer McCormick RPM mags, but Wilsons are great as well.

Here is what I have been carrying lately, a Willey Clapp CCO.

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I shot my first single shot .22 at 5 years old and it’s been non-stop ever since. I get the mod factor of 1911s and a lot of people like them. I’ve tried them out in various stages of my life and each time, I had issues. I carry strictly for self defense and the number one criteria for my carry piece is reliability, before anything else. When I drop money on a pistol, it had better work, without filing this or polishing that, etc.
 
hkssr20det said:
Not to impugn anyone else's skills, but from my years as a salesman and my love for the 1911 (I still carry one myself) they are just not beginner guns. Production 1911s have come a very long way from the 90s and earlier, but even then some still require a bit of gunsmithing/tuning to be truly reliable. I think that is part of why I personally love them, other than the mechanics and triggers. Just like knives, I really just am not interested in a firearm that I can't put my own personal stamp on, but I have been trained by a gunsmith to do my own work. Also, magazines are usually the first stop for those of us who run our 1911s into the ground. I prefer McCormick RPM mags, but Wilsons are great as well.

Here is what I have been carrying lately, a Willey Clapp CCO.

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The ones that I used in the Marines, back in the late 60's were probably some of the same ones that were used when my Dad was in the Marines during WW II. At Parris Island we'd come back from the range, and the platoon would divide up into groups of 5 or 6, and we'd sit around a bucket of dry cleaning fluid, detail strip the 1911s & throw all the parts into the bucket, right along with everybody else's. We'd then fish out parts, scrub them with a tooth brush, and reassemble our guns. Those guns were so worn, that parts from any of the other 1911s fit just fine.

And they worked. Try that with a newer production 1911.:)
 
Ironbut said:
The ones that I used in the Marines, back in the late 60's were probably some of the same ones that were used when my Dad was in the Marines during WW II. At Parris Island we'd come back from the range, and the platoon would divide up into groups of 5 or 6, and we'd sit around a bucket of dry cleaning fluid, detail strip the 1911s & throw all the parts into the bucket, right along with everybody else's. We'd then fish out parts, scrub them with a tooth brush, and reassemble our guns. Those guns were so worn, that parts from any of the other 1911s fit just fine.

And they worked. Try that with a newer production 1911.:)
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We did the same thing, only with M9 parts and we dropped them into a bucket of simple green.
 
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