timcalhoun

Awesome! Congrats on the new addiction!!!

Chump change.......

If that is a les Baer in the picture...............Les was stoned, drunk and blind when he built it. Less Beer is what he wrote.

Basically, the ETM mags are a rip off of the Tripp mags. The tube is extended to as far as possible and then they use a very thin base pad on the mag. Virgil Tripp researched and experimented for over a year to develop the best 1911 mag possible and that was one of his ideas. What this does is give you a little extra room for the last round (full mag) increasing reliability and also helps with seating a full mag on reloads. I cannot say enough good things about Virgil. Odds are when you call up to order a mag you get to talk to him and he is a legend as far as I'm concerned. I have and use every mag out there, but I think the Tripps are the most durable, reliable, and well thought out mags in existence.

Yep +1

The problem with the 1911 platform is that you have 100 year old technology that only transfers to a certain extent to modern manufacturing techniques. Compound that with dozens of companies producing them with different levels of success and you get the confusion you feel. Take 10 Springfields, Kimbers, Para etc.....and I will show you odds are there is probably one with the barrel out of time or linked wrong or frame ramp wrong or extractor too tight etc.... So which one is better????? the RIA built right or the Springer that the link will break in 5k? How can anyone answer that? You can't. Bottom line the 1911 still requires a skilled person to put the gun together and of course every manufacture tries to minimize this thinking that their CNC machine will help reduce that labor cost. It only works so good, and all of them are willing to except a certain amount of guns coming back instead of paying for the extra skilled labor.

I just can't disagree more. I own nothing but custom 1911s (spare one 238) I can build them from the ground up and just finished one a couple weeks ago. If sprung correctly the slide speed is a constant therefore it wears the same. But to your point that somehow tighter wears more- take a hammer and hold it over your car hood 1/8" off the hood and hit the car as hard as you can. Then do the same thing holding the hammer 2 feet above the hood. A tight fit would cause less peening, but the point is moot since if fit and sprung properly there should be no peening. My main competition gun has over 50K down the pipe with major power loads and an 11lb recoil spring (in 40SW). It still shoots an inch at 25yds and I challenge you or anyone to move the slide to frame fit and the barrel to slide fit even after all those rounds. You will shoot the barrel out before you will wear the gun out and be able to re-barrel the gun and get the same performance again.

Top quality custom guns are made with the best parts out there and fitted to perfection and will wear actually less and shoot accurately longer no matter what ammo you run in them. They will not need repaired if you shoot hot ammo in them as long as the proper recoil spring is run. They will actually wear less because of the superior fit and better parts. You would need to explain to me why a gun built with the best parts on the planet fitted perfectly would be somehow less "durable".

Best one yet!!!!!!!

I have a Hi point and want to pull it out of my waistband...... I liked them hognut.

Here is the 3 gun one. YouTube - I Want To Shoot 3 Gun

Really cool fishing vests.........Whoever makes the rules for this should jump into a giant blender...

Well, I'm in the barrel harmonics camp for sure. I read about it for 20 years ago or more, and it is the only thing that can explain all that I have experienced through the years handloading and experimenting. The browning Boss system was designed on this principle. How does the BOSS system work?

MIM and PM parts if designed and processed properly are as good as the other process for most small part applications. Design, material selection and heat-treatment processes play a big part in quality and serviceable life of the part. Bottom line..........many manufactures use junk, and replacing them with better parts is probably a good idea.

LOL......everyone should do it for atleast a year or so.......it would fix a lot of that.

Tell me about it. I did the scores for a couple years..............I had trouble reading them first hand.

Remo's last name is spelled Hinlo BTW.

Nice deer!!! I'm sure you are proud of her.............great job.

Very Cool!!!! Congrats to your boy!

5 thousand rounds is like nothing for a custom built gun. It is just broken in well at that point. I will admit I know nothing about bullseye but I do know one of the best bullseye smiths in the nation who I can ask. Heck I have over 50K through my one competition gun and it is still printing groups as good as the first 5K. I'll check on that. Here is a email I dug up that I sent a friend who was asking about this very subject. It's too long but will clarify what I mean: Okay so let's talk about two hypothetical guns and compare them. A new out of the box factory 1911 that runs 100% and a full custom 1911 built by someone who knows what they are doing and of course runs 100%. Is the extra money worth it for the custom gun? Since we know they both function 100% why pay more for the same result? Or do you actually get the same results ultimately? Most anyone can pick these two guns up and rack the slides and feel that they are different. When you rack the slide on the high dollar gun, it feels like two pieces of glass sliding together with KY jelly in between and you can't wiggle the slide on the frame at all, and it moves in one perceived seamless motion. The factory gun kinda jerks in spots and maybe even feels a little gritty and has a loose slide to frame fit that you can wiggle a bit. Tearing the guns down further you check the fit of the barrel. When you drop the factory gun's barrel in the slide and down in the lugs, you can wiggle it front to back and left to right. When you do the same to the custom gun it just will not wiggle in any direction. I could go on and on about every part like this but you get the picture. We all know that the high dollar gun is fit better and use "better" parts. I know, I can hear you say " Bid deal, my Kimber goes bang every time and it is very accurate too and I didn't have to mortgage the house. I understand..........I do. Well, a really well fit gun will do a couple of important things way better. The obvious thing of course is accuracy. You should easily expect 1 inch groups at 25 yards with a well made gun. Most factory guns simply wont get close to that no matter what the rag mags say. The other is longevity. You can easily expect to replace your barrel a couple of times and the gun should still be running like a watch and you will be stunned at how tight the slide to frame fit remains. Most all over the counter guns start to beat themselves to death in 1/4 of the round count of a well built custom. Factory guns are often fit slightly wrong and yet the gun may run for thousands and thousands of rounds before a problem rears its ugly head. Everything from simple malfunctions to catastrophic failure. I remember one gun I had that the tip of the extractor hook was only part of the extractor to touch the round, it had zero pressure on the round, and yet I had shot about 3 thousand rounds out of that gun without a single problem. I'm sure FTE problems were Imminent LOL. Then if the barrel is not quite right you can have barrel lugs/feet sheared off, barrel links broke etc..... And again it might not happen for many, many thousands of rounds conceivably. All the while you are thinking the gun is rock solid and built right. Then you have the another aspect of performance. If you know what to have built, you can build a gun that even in the same hands and same load, will be a much better shooter than a factory gun. It will be faster on target (between shots) and transitioning between targets. I'm not talking about a race gun necessarily either. My carry gun looks like a factory gun. A custom gun maker can remove metal strategically, manipulate the mass of the slide, help get your grip higher on the gun so that your arm is more on line with the center of the bore, move the balance point of the gun to the shooters preference and tune the trigger to fit the shooter no matter what they like, want or need. A gun that flips much less and is more controllable on recoil will always be faster no matter the talent of the shooter. I think this is where most folks fail to realize how a true custom can be "worth it". So yes, I think that a custom is well worth it in many ways for many people. But not to everyone, that is for sure. I personally have no desire for a Porsche 911 since my 4X4 will get me everywhere I want to go that the sports car will and if fits who I am better. But I can see why they are worth the money to some folks. Come to think of it though..........if I drove a car in the hopes that it may save my life, I may have a Porsche in my driveway (particularly if I could get one for 2500 bucks). LOL

Sig 238.

I'm more of a Glenlivet and cigar kinda guy myself.

Ahhhhh........nectar of the Gods.

It would be fun to have a night of 1911 talk and beer for those who would be interested.

Naaaa...................it's an open forum and you have much to contribute!