The Guv'ment model .45 finally got a medal...

[TresMon]

I just pulled the following out of thin air, in a text, to a competitive pistol shooting friend. No joke.




Did you hear that they have redesignated the military sidearm formally know as the

"Colt 1911A1"

Government model pistol... & accordingly, it's classic chambering:

45 ACP
(A.utomatic C.olt
P.istol) cartridge?

Yep.

It's the first weapon in the history of the US DOD weapons arsenal to receive a human'like military service medal of sorts, after (both sidearm and cartridge) has served faithfully for over 100+ years in both military war time & peace, law enforcement, competitive pistol shooting in all conceivable forms & loved as well as relied upon by millions of Americans for personal defense... & last but not least, countless recreational shooters, world wide.???

Yep-

The pistol is now redesignated/ called the:

"19'AARP"

and the cartridge, is now the:

" .45 ASSDEPO. "

ASSDEPO being the official acronym that stands for:

Automatic
Soc. Sec.
Dissability
Entitlment
Pay
Out

[after gran'pa caught your punk self in his shed at 0245 tryna steal his lawn mower; him accordingly following his 'drafted into 'Nam training protocol:

B.R.A.S.S,911.

For the uniformed, "BRASS" is the old school USMC shooting acronym:

B.reath

(while)R.elease(-ing)

A.im

S.queeze

S.hoot.

Let's have a round for such a faithful, long serving veteran of these United States, now formally & correctly honored & decorated!

Cheers!

 

[JoshPutman]

 

[91Eunozs]

IKR?

As delivered ^ … And current BBQ gun configuration:

 

[JoshPutman]

My EDC. Pic with the watch is before I switched baseplates on my Wilson mags to Dawson Precision. Much nicer.

The gun has some nice finish wear from years of practice coming from the holster. I've thought about having a friend of mine Ceracoat it, but just can't bring myself to do it. It's earned that wear.

Almost forgot, it has the obligatory idiot scratch, from when I first got it and didn't know what I was doing

 

[Maggot]

Old but appropriate.

 

[TresMon]

Awesome, lol

 

[mi650]

 

[akmike47]

Way overrated it’s like a Chevy dually. Yes it’s a truck, but it’s not great. It was good in 1911 and it’s just been okay since.

I loved calling a big manufacturers for their new jam-o-matic and them saying 1000-2000 round break-in before it became reliable. I remember laughing and hanging up on them, telling the customer, and then they immediately sold it.

 

[sirhrmechanic]

1911… rendering everything else except the p35 Hi Power obsolete since before the dawn of time.

Fight me!

Sirhr

 

[Maggot]

 

[91Eunozs]

My EDC. Pic with the watch is before I switched baseplates on my Wilson mags to Dawson Precision. Much nicer.

The gun has some nice finish wear from years of practice coming from the holster. I've thought about having a friend of mine Ceracoat it, but just can't bring myself to do it. It's earned that wear.

Almost forgot, it has the obligatory idiot scratch, from when I first got it and didn't know what I was doing
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I put those same grips on my son’s 1911. Found a Sig with a really tight slide-to-frame fit, and spent an entire weekend lapping that in until it was like buttah’…. Then replaced some of the MIM parts with WC guts, and it shoots like a dream; awesome for a $1K gun:

 

[91Eunozs]

…and while that Cabot a few posts above is my favorite, this GA Precision tuned Nighthawk is the one I consistently shoot the best with:

 

[91Eunozs]

…and the other, other bible of the 1911 should get a remark in this thread too:

 

[JoshPutman]

 

[Maggot]

Looking for a new 1911?

Got a spare quarter million laying around?

Are you dumber than a rock?

 

[akmike47]

That’s gay as fuck lol