Bill says the pendulum is swinging back to Wilson Combat building more .45 1911s than 9mm 1911s:
Bill says the pendulum is swinging back to Wilson Combat building more .45 1911s than 9mm 1911s:
Part of the reason to choose .45 in a 1911-pattern pistol would be a concern about magazine capacity limits. If one is concerned about a magazine capacity and wants a SAO design, a 1911 makes sense. If one chooses a 1911, it is easier to make one reliable in the round for which the pistol was designed.
Because it is so easy to shoot well. A new generation figuring that out? The manufacturers are marketing it well and producing more attractive models with "enough" of what was customization stuff done to them, decent sights, beavertails, etc.
WC calls their double stack X9 a 1911…
I’m not sure if he’s talking regular single stack 1911s in 45 and 9 versus adding up all the double stack “1911” in 9mm…
Lies, damned lies and statistics.
While I admire WC designs, parts, and guns, a 1911 manufacturer putting out a video title "Why the 1911 is still popular" seems a bit self-serving.
I like 1911s, I'll always have 1911s, and I'm certainly happy to see WC business prosper- but the double-stack 9mm is today's reality of defensive pistolcraft.
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It is? ? ? Lets see some sales numbers. I have nothing against a nice 1911, but I literally only see old guys like myself shooting them at the range or competitions.
*hitches up pants*
Well, it could be buncha' us old-timers learnt on Glocks and recently discovered the pleasure of shooting slow, fat bullets out of a steel pistol with a carrot-snapping crisp trigger...
I don't think single stack 1911's in 9mm make sense to anyone anymore. With Wilson's EDC based double stack guns seeming to work pretty well and the Stack-A-Toe obsession, if you want a 9mm with 1911 style controls there are just better options out there without compromising capacity.
3/15/2016