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Idiosyncrasies

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 Been reading Hilton Yam skewering the 1911 lately.

He definitely knows them intimately.

Something that's lost, again, in these "1911 has been rendered obsolete" discussions is the needs of a department aren't the needs of the individual.

My single gun is not being treated like an issue gun and the attention I need to apply to the quirks of the 1911 aren't onerous to me.  I can see those needs being too much for a department armorer to want to deal with.

It's a small price to pay for a gun I shoot very well.  Not that I've needed to address any idiosyncrasy of the gun yet.  I've been lucky that way.  I've yet to encounter a single one of the "routine" failures associated with one.

It makes me wonder.  I harken back to my Army days and I recall how we abused the snot out of every single item we were allowed to touch; and I wonder if abusing the gun is now the norm in people's minds.

Gun X can be beaten like a red headed step-child and sits there and asks for more like a puppy!  OK.

When did we decide that's how the gun SHOULD be treated?

It's like cars.  My Biscayne CAN sling along at 155 miles per hour; SHOULD I?

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