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Excess Frugality leads to... A Range Mishap (1911 KaBoom)
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| Patrick A. Rogers
Posted on 09/06/2004 10:41:57 AM PDT by TERMINATTOR
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.40S&W in a .45, definately NOT the guns fault. The bonehead is lucky he still has fingers.
To: TERMINATTOR
Well, the grips and the trigger shoe look salvageable,
so it's not a total loss.
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posted on
09/06/2004 10:44:55 AM PDT
by
Boundless
To: TERMINATTOR
Very odd 1911 configuration, almost as if somebody had made a newbie a "deal" on this thing when the newbie didn't want to pay Kimber, Les Baer, Ed Brown, etc... prices. I can't imagine anyone who'd had a 1911 that long to not know the difference between a .40 S&W and a .45 ACP cartridge almost instinctively.
To: Eaker
To: TERMINATTOR
Besides being an ugly gun The author looses all credability with this remark.
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posted on
09/06/2004 10:47:28 AM PDT
by
11Bush
To: TERMINATTOR
Ugly gun? Perhaps AFTER the KaBoom.
The 1911 is the best looking semiauto pistol ever made.
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posted on
09/06/2004 10:52:21 AM PDT
by
Mr. Mojo
To: 11Bush
Gunsite is pretty expensive for a newbie...I would rather have an $800 1911 than an $800 class.
To: TERMINATTOR
oh no...you just had to post this.....
My X in one of her fits (mea culpa)...in a fit of vindictiveness (again mea culpa) made made off with my series 70 Commander sold it for about a tenth of what it was worth...my favorite sidearm (my baby)....disappeared one day..back in the middle 80s....
He had such a great gun...and he ruined it....to take such a trophy and stuff a 40 S&W in it
and at Gunsite of all places...
What a putz....he will never live this down..poor fellow...at least it was only his pride and his pistol...
Cant believe they let him shoot that Colt with all the junk hanging off it....
sniff sniff ....poor ole Colt... Series 70 Commander......sniff sniff
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posted on
09/06/2004 10:58:54 AM PDT
by
joesnuffy
(Moderate Islam Is For Dilettantes)
To: BurbankKarl
Squared trigger guard series 70? Was this a reworked Swenson?
To: joesnuffy
I noticed my Xwife was also missing ...several months later
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posted on
09/06/2004 10:59:55 AM PDT
by
joesnuffy
(Moderate Islam Is For Dilettantes)
To: joesnuffy
oops not a commander Govt model....who cares then...
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posted on
09/06/2004 11:00:56 AM PDT
by
joesnuffy
(Moderate Islam Is For Dilettantes)
To: TERMINATTOR
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posted on
09/06/2004 11:01:28 AM PDT
by
Dog Gone
To: BurbankKarl
ahh, check that....a $1200 class? and another $400 for ammo?
That is some ching! Although, somewhere along the way the shooter didnt learn to clear his .45 He can go buy a nice Kimber to help get over losing Old Betsy
To: TERMINATTOR
Once, in the heat of battle (quail hunting with my trusty pumpgun), I swung to a bird and......... click, just click. I couldn't believe it.
Upon inspection, I found that I had chambered a roll of wintergreen lifesavers.
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posted on
09/06/2004 11:04:36 AM PDT
by
umgud
(speaking strictly as an infidel,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,)
To: Mr. Mojo
The 1911 is the best looking gun, but this example is not a great one. A tigger shoe? Jeeze. A square trigger guard, a weird 70s style that thankfully has died out. The grips, horrible. The silver highlights on a black gun, tacky. It's a time piece, at best. Well now it has been converted to an object lesson.
To: BurbankKarl
Sure he did. He tapped, racked, and banged just like he was taught. Doesn't work so well with a mangled .40 case halfway down the pipe, though.
To: BurbankKarl
Gunsite is pretty expensive for a newbie...I would rather have an $800 1911 than an $800 class.
In a gunfight, I'll bet on the guy with $1000 of training and a $100 gun, over the guy with $100 of training and a $1000 gun.
Granted, the only thing worse than no training is no gun.
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posted on
09/06/2004 11:11:58 AM PDT
by
Atlas Sneezed
(Your Friendly Freeper Patent Attorney)
To: Dog Gone
What's a trigger shoe? An attachment that is bolted on with small allen screws to make the trigger wider. Good idea on a bullseye type target gun, but not the best idea for a combat pistol.
To: TFL-Thumper
What is the deal with the square trigger guard? Did someone cannibalize some sort of race gun to make that piece up? That is most certainly not a stock colt frame.
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posted on
09/06/2004 11:13:32 AM PDT
by
Armedanddangerous
(The first rule of gunfighting is to have a gun...more than one, if possible..)
To: Tijeras_Slim
Thank you for the explanation. I'd never seen one before.
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posted on
09/06/2004 11:15:19 AM PDT
by
Dog Gone
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