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Rob10ring

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Re: Ultimate Fighting Handgun
« Reply #40 on: August 28, 2008, 03:38:13 PM »
I'm sure John Moses Browning had a lot of ideas in his head that were never realized. Some of his final guns were left on the workbench after his death for his son and others to finish. After being commissioned to design a high capacity 9 by the French, he had to come up with a whole new design, because he had sold the rights to the 1911. The magazine disconnect safety was a requirement of the French military contract that it was being designed for. The Hi-power was also one of those designs that someone else completed.
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Re: Ultimate Fighting Handgun
« Reply #41 on: August 28, 2008, 10:51:52 PM »
Quote from: SigShooter on August 28, 2008, 03:19:35 PM

I am aware that some 1911s can be field stripped without tools, but those then to be pretty loose and used. Why to new ones come with a bushing wrench. If it wasn't necessary at least in the first few cleaning sessions, they wouldn't supply a nice piece of steel that could contribute to another gun or gun parts. And with the price of steel going up, that's no small matter when it comes to thousands of bushing wrenches.


I think all 1911s can be field stripped without tools. Of course you need an allen wrench to take apart two-piece guide rods, but I haven't personally seen a 1911 with a standard recoil spring guide that couldn't be field stripped without tools. If you have trouble with the barrel bushing, just pull the slide stop out and pull the slide off first. The rest comes apart easily after that.

I didn't know it was common for 1911s to come with bushing wrenches. Only one of my new 1911s did, and it was a plastic wrench for the Officers ACP size fat bushing. I don't remember ever using it. I had 4 pistols with 3 bushings that came with 1 wrench but none was needed until I put an oversize bushing in. Soon after it wasn't needed anymore.
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Re: Ultimate Fighting Handgun
« Reply #42 on: August 29, 2008, 12:10:59 PM »
Ain't this a great place? So many points of view and all with merrit...for the most part.
The bottom line (at least for me) is that you have to go with what you know and use what suits YOU best.

A single shot .22 that works when you need it to is better than a .45 that don't work when it is supposed to, regardless of the type or brand.

Shoot safe.
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