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?
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?