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-- Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy --
Concur
I like how no one suggests adding a grip safety to an SAO CZ75, converted p07/09 or any of the other cocked striker guns.....(in fact we shit on the xd version for being pointless and fragile)
But one mentions cavalry era parts on a new gun in 2020 and everyone gets all “well I’ve never had a problem with them “
I think this is probably the "real" answer.
Even Jeff Cooper advocated deactivating it, but it's not a 1911 without it.
Colt should come out with a 1905A1 or 1907A1 model and market it as JMBs true vision.
Interesting responses here. I am usually not thinking about the grip safety while shooting most pistols with them. They always seem to engage fine for me. I have medium/large hands, and the G20/G21 fits me better than a G17 with the largest beavertail backstrap. I would theorize that most grip safeties have been designed for larger hands, but the posts indicating that competition shooters disable them whenever possible probably casts doubt on that theory.
If any "1911ish" gun came to be seen as the one true successor to the 1911A1, I think grip safeties would fade away. But I doubt 1911 fans are ever going to coalesce around one newish design.
REPETITION CREATES BELIEF
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NO EXCEPTIONS
Ken
BBI: ...”you better not forget the safe word because shit's about to get weird”...
revchuck38: ...”mo' ammo is mo' betta' unless you're swimming or on fire.”
It's funny how a feature that we can't get rid of from the design that is still the standard by which combat semiautos are judged against is a complete dealbreaker on new designs.
Has any gun design with a grip safety besides the 1911 achieved "gold standard" status with serious pistol shooters? None come to mind for me.
(I like my father's XD, but it seems he got "one of the good ones.")
REPETITION CREATES BELIEF
REPETITION BUILDS THE SEPARATE WORLDS WE LIVE AND DIE IN
NO EXCEPTIONS
While I'm a 1911 user, I'm not a big 1911 purist.
The 1911 grip safety fulfills the same function as the trigger tab on striker fired guns.
Last edited by JTQ; 04-20-2020 at 11:55 AM.
Some info on the early prototypes:
https://cylinder-slide.com/1910hammerless
And one for sale if you have extra deep pockets:
https://cylinder-slide.com/Item/Pocket_Model
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I prefer the GS, and the Series 80 configuration too, especially if its going to be carried AIWB