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Best wishes to you on finding the 1911 pistol that works for you!

Cate

BigAl52 wrote:Lots of choices and I read from several forums that contain gunsmiths. For the money and they make several models a Rock Island arms is a good way to go. The Ruger is also a good choice. But if you are after one with a little more quality and bells and whistles my favorite hands down is a Sig 1911. I have 2 of them along with a Kimber. I would not spend the money for another Kimber as the Sigs I own put my Kimber to shame. If you want to spend a little more money hard to beat a Dan Wesson or a Les Baer. You can also go up from those it just depends on how deep your pockets are. Al

Awesome advice and right on the money all the way !!!!

Catherine wrote:Best wishes to you on finding the 1911 pistol that works for you!

Cate

Cate, one of these days I probably just need to bite the bullet and buy one. I'm sure not getting any younger.

Since I didn't go into detail in my 1911 thread, I will post this here.

I've had my Springfield Range Officer for a little over a week now. I know, not a long term trial. I've got a couple hundred rounds through it, mostly my reloads.

I believe I am really going to like this pistol. It is very accurate. Once I got my reloads dialed in, it has operated flawlessly. With a good cleaning and starting it off with Frog Lube, everything operates extremely smoothly. The trigger had just a touch of grittiness to it, but that is gone now, and it's quite smooth and breaks cleanly. Once I had it apart, I was very impressed with the machining. The feed ramp was smooth as the south end of a north bound baby. The barrel has no visible machining marks at all. The slide fits perfectly and is very tight.

I did swap the wood grips with a Hogue. Thought it would look utilitarian, but it actually looks rather good with the black on black. The finger grooves help with a confident, repeatable grip, and the rubber material helps to absorb a bit of recoil.

I got this on an inventory reduction sale at my LGS. Snagged it for $650. It included a very nice hard gun case, a holster and mag pouch, and two mags. There is a promotional offer til the end of June that ships the holster and mag pouch, and 4 mags. Don't know if they will ship me the additional holster and mag pouch, don't really need them, but the extra mags would be nice.

The Range Officer seems to be a really nice 1911. Glad to hear you are enjoying yours.

You have to get a Colt just because it was the first. I have owned too many then sold off and ended up with a Series 70 Colt, Springfield Range Officer and a Les Baer, I also have a Springfield EMP 9mm. The rest of my firearms are Glocks and rifles.

Do you have a budget and a time line?

I just picked up a SA Range Officer compact in 9mm less than a year ago and since I got my STI, (twice the price) I am contemplating selling the ROc.

In case you might be interested, here's a teaser.



(It's the one in the middle, LOL)

I'm not trying to do any self promotion but I would be attentive to a conversation should this be something you might be interested in. No pressure....

That's a beauty, Bish. I think I'm going to get a full size 1911, but if I were looking at a compact, that would be tempting...

ditto1958 wrote:That's a beauty, Bish. I think I'm going to get a full size 1911, but if I were looking at a compact, that would be tempting...

Roger that!!

Good hunting.