My analogy for Gods gun is something along the lines of:
"1911s are as unique as the person carrying them. They run the spectrum from old, hacky boomers that you can count on to work forever, but not everyone in the family is comfortable with them, to smooth, well dressed and high maintenance trash that you'd never trust with anything more important than taking out the garbage, to blue collar, hard working, but with no personality, and so on...
all the way up to precise, put together, indefatigable, but just a few rounds short of a double stack."
So being short of a double stack, I did a thing.
Several months ago, but the whole pandemic has kinda screwed with peoples businessman and ACW, to their credit, still completed the gun in the estimated time frame (I had ordered it pre pandemic)
I basically wanted a classic looking, no frills gun that was easy on the wrists, accurate to a fault, usable for carry and just fun to look at and appreciate as art.
Yes, guns are serious, I know, and so for seriousness, it is set up the same as each of my 1911s. Short trigger, flat mainspring housing, U-notch rear sight.
Now for the expression of art: The gun is blued exquisitely, almost like my old pre lock model 57. The gold bead front sight, because fiber optics on a gun like this is probably illegal. It's also checkered on the front strap and undercut at the trigger guard. I left it with no extended mag well because I will probably carry it, and the trade off of 9 round flush fitting magazines is OK to me for better concealment. Oh yeah I forgot to note, it is in 9x19mm. Because cheat codes gun.
I've not yet been past 2k rounds with it (around 1k of handloads, Federal AE, S&B and some assorted HSTs and Gold dots.
I probably won't do 2000 rounds without cleaning, however the gun bears all the hallmarks of superior reliability and I'd trust it to work. As expected, it passed the 10-8 test handily. I will however note that similar to my experience with all 1911s, there were some things I had to change.
Bear in mind they have nothing to do with the builder.
One is that the gun was likely zeroed for someone else, as it printed a little to the right. Itput 5 shots of 147gr AE into a tiny tiny hole at 25 yards...that hole was just a few inches right. Easily fixed. The other was the undercut trigger guard/high grip mod worked a bit too well and deactivating the grip safety was hit or miss. So a quick clearance of the safety arm and all done.
Alright, so the gun is extremely accurate. I have shot some phenomenal groups with it and I'm not a very good shot. Been trying to work up a good handload worthy of it. Certainly the most accurate handgun I own. I certainly cannot make the best use of this guns accuracy potential, but I've put up sub one inch groups at 20 yards and that's by far the limit of my skill. One hole groups at that distance.
And now why:
Why buy a gun that expensive? I mean holy shit all told the gun was a little under 3k. I own and have tuned my own sub 900 dollar 1911s for high reliability, taking them to classes, matches, and carrying them concealed... they're all accurate and reliable and I'd trust my life to them...so why this gun?
Well I asked the girl of my dreams to marry me, she said yes, and to celebrate, I kind of wanted to buy myself something nice and having no predilection to fast cars, expensive booze, cigars or watches, I decided to indulge my main vice. The other reason is more personally meaningful, so I'll keep it to myself.
Putting the order in though? Yeah I was mostly drunk when I did that.
Hey I'm still a cheap bastard what can I say?
Long term reliability and durability reports are pending the availability of 9mm/development of a viable handload.
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