A little less BLASPHEMY!

[Man of the Demoneye]

After Uryu's thread on a 9mm 1911, I figured I would have to do something to try and balance out all this bad karma. Here it is, a 1911...in .45 ACP. I say "a little less" because it's the tactical model, so it has all the fancy s**t on there and an ambidexterous safety since I shoot lefty, which is the main reason I got the tactical.

Picked it up at the gun show today after doing paperwork a while back. Also got a spare mag and a holster. It says Holster Kings on it, but that's all I can find on it. Only cost $12, so I figured I didn't have a whole lot to lose. So far I love it. Holds the gun tightly and on an angle Tried it OWB and IWB and it conceals better than I thought it would. Just need to get a thicker belt than the one I have on now.

I got to try it out last weekend at the local fall shoot. Can't really post a target since about 4 of us were shooting at a time, but I was able to occasionaly break clays at 25 yds. If only I would stop jerking the trigger. I think I will swap out the sights for some truglo 3 dots or some other kind of illuminated 3 dot thing. It's good for now though. Reliability wise, I put 300 rds. through it so far. 100 rds of winchester white box, then 100 rds. of tula, and 100 more of whitebox. Only had one failure to feed with the tula, but I think that was bacause of the steel cases sticking together.

Takedown is easy, but putting it back together is a little tough the first time. I used this video to do it because the instruction manual is crap IMHO.

Pics so this thread isn't worthless:
 

[uryu ishida]

That's exactly what I have except in 9mm. I don't see how it's tactical myself aside form the ambi safety. Maybe it's the skeletonized bits?  

[Man of the Demoneye]

uryu ishida

That's exactly what I have except in 9mm. I don't see how it's tactical myself aside form the ambi safety. Maybe it's the skeletonized bits?

When I first heard "tactical", the first thing that came to mind was rails. Apparantly it has a better trigger and is a bit more finished than the base 1911s, but I have nothing to compare against. That and the sights are changeable. Maybe it's just meant to sound cool to us?  

[Fresnel]

Perfect for scrubbing off heresy.

But really, that's a nice looking gun. I need to get me a 1911 sometime. Considering a Taurus... Uryu, you had a Taurus, no? How was it?  

[Recon_Ninja_985]

hmm... with so many 1911s floating around my interest is rekindled.

may buy a para warthog or kimber pro carry in the near future/ whenever it can be afforded.

or maybe I may just save money and get an RIA compact. too many to choose from  

[uryu ishida]

Fresnel

Perfect for scrubbing off heresy.

But really, that's a nice looking gun. I need to get me a 1911 sometime. Considering a Taurus... Uryu, you had a Taurus, no? How was it?

Other than the known issue with the safety (the ambi safeties they use are a bit loose--mine had a bit of play between the paddles), they're great. Replace the ambi safety with a Wilson COmbat one.  

[Man of the Demoneye]

You know something, I still haven't thought of a name for it. Suggestions? Only real guideline is that it must be female.