How about chambering the 1911 in a unique new caliber, designed by custom gunsmith Fred Craig? The Tuason-Craig MicroMagnum stuffs a .223 bullet into a 9mm casing to create a hot little cartridge that gives maximum muzzle velocity with minimum recoil. It is called .22 TCM for short and it throws a 40-grain projectile at around 2,100 feet per second out of a 1911. Similar to FN’s 5.7×28 loading, this “Honey, I shrunk the .223 Remington” concept produces a big fireball at the muzzle of the gun, very little felt recoil, and the power to zip right through steel plates. According to one early review, “It did things to a watermelon that would put a .45 to shame.” All this from a pistol holding 18+1 rounds with very little felt recoil, using ammo that costs about as much as .45ACP. Interested yet? There’s even more. In case you want to shoot cheaper ammo for the day, each .22 TCM 1911 comes with a spare 9mm caliber barrel, and the rear sight on the gun is adjustable to make up for the difference in point of impact down range.
What good is a new caliber if you can’t find it, or if it’s too expensive to shoot anyway? After all, plenty of innovative and potentially useful pistol calibers failed because affordable ammunition was not available. When was the last time you saw someone at the range shooting a .400 Corbon or a .50GI? Armscor’s .22 TCM won’t have this problem—they just opened a new ammunition manufacturing facility in Stevensville, Montana! Armscor USA ammo now has a new yellow sunburst logo and the motto “Right On Target, Right On The Price”. We have .22 TCM in stock already and it’s just $21.09 for a box of 50 rounds. That’s almost exactly the same price as brass cased .45ACP and 10mm are going for these days. Cheaper Than Dirt! is going to be carrying the full line of Armscor USA ammo, and right now at my desk I have boxes of the stuff in .45ACP, 9mm, .380ACP, .223 Remington, and .22 Magnum. All of it is beautiful new production ammo with polished casings, uniform crimps, and consistent overall length. Now that I am handloading my own .223 ammo I can really appreciate how nicely made this stuff is. For example, the 55 grain .223 bullets have cannelures, and each casing is properly crimped exactly at the cannelure, just like it is supposed to be. I am happy to note that the .45ACP loadings use large pistol primers– there has been a trend recently to use small pistol primers in .45ACP practice ammo as a cost-cutting measure. For low-cost plinking stuff it doesn’t really matter, but it’s not the correct specification for .45ACP and I’m not personally a fan of doing that.
This is from "The shooters Log" cannot find any pricing on the pistol, but it sounds like a honey
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