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    1911 a1

    Finest fighting pistol ever conceived

    All hail the genius that was John Moses Browning

    Oorah

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    its good, but not the best
    Guns don't kill people. Zombies kill people.

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    Quote Originally Posted by nox View Post
    Finest fighting pistol ever conceived

    All hail the genius that was John Moses Browning

    Oorah
    Quote Originally Posted by Tommy View Post
    its good, but not the best
    Blasphemy -LOL

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    I'm with nox on this one. Been carrying one for 30 years. Drifted over to a Glock here and there, but always came back to the 1911. Currently carrying a Colt Combat Commander with some Magpul OD green grips
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    show me some 1911 porn Mac

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    Gold cup
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    "Back after 5 years. I thought you had died.

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    Quote Originally Posted by CactusCurt View Post
    Gold cup
    Nothing finer.....Ben

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    Nice grips!! Damn im jealous. That is some pimp daddy bling there!
    "Back after 5 years. I thought you had died.

    don"


    Splitting my time between the montane and the mesas

    The woods are lovely, dark and deep.
    But I have promises to keep,
    And miles to go before I sleep,
    And miles to go before I sleep.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Truckman View Post
    Nothing finer.....Ben

    He of the big bucks

    Me of lessor status: Remington 1911 R1S
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    Quote Originally Posted by Dave Grubb View Post
    He of the big bucks

    Me of lessor status: Remington 1911 R1S
    Hah!...It might be worth big bucks today if I decided to sell it, but I have an embarrassingly small amount of real bucks in it......

    And with my admittedly rusty shooting skills, I'll bet that Remington would shoot just as well as my Colt in my arthritic fingers......Ben
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    It does shoot very well Ben.

    I am sure I have mentioned in the past that I fell in love with the 1911 while in the Army. I was required to be armed at all times and the 1911 was always on my side with the other (not always carried) being an M1 carbine.

    For some reason, the occasional ability to see the bullet trajectory on sunny days appealed to me
    "A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity, an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty” ---Sir Winston Churchill
    "Political extremism involves two prime ingredients: an excessively simple diagnosis of the world's ills, and a conviction that there are identifiable villains back of it all." ---John W. Gardner
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    I was chuckling the other day when reading tru some of your old threads about old age and shooting. I can still sorta shoot a pistol but open sights on a long gun are a problem. I was complaining about it 10 years ago on my muzzleloader (and yes i did go to a williams peep-still a little sketchy in low light)

    I especially liked you geezers not being able to open your safes. I have one that opens sometimes and another that works good. I dont get it

    I dont have problems with my fingers but my brain seems to be defective. When I was shooting alot of trap I got to flinching so bad i had to go to a release trigger A release on a bench rifle would be the crats azz.
    "Back after 5 years. I thought you had died.

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    Splitting my time between the montane and the mesas

    The woods are lovely, dark and deep.
    But I have promises to keep,
    And miles to go before I sleep,
    And miles to go before I sleep.

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    I'm not sure how far back you went but I solved my problem with open sights on a shotgun with a rifled barrel that I use in some places for deer. Obviously it was not a candidate for a peep sight and someone lead me to this. An excellent solution to a nagging problem.
    "A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity, an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty” ---Sir Winston Churchill
    "Political extremism involves two prime ingredients: an excessively simple diagnosis of the world's ills, and a conviction that there are identifiable villains back of it all." ---John W. Gardner
    “You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.” ---C. S. Lewis

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    Quote Originally Posted by Dave Grubb View Post
    someone lead me to this.
    That may have been me, Dave...I used to sell a lot of those......Ben
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    Quote Originally Posted by Truckman View Post
    That may have been me, Dave...I used to sell a lot of those......Ben
    Could have been---for when Ben speaks---I listen
    "A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity, an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty” ---Sir Winston Churchill
    "Political extremism involves two prime ingredients: an excessively simple diagnosis of the world's ills, and a conviction that there are identifiable villains back of it all." ---John W. Gardner
    “You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.” ---C. S. Lewis

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