Wait 'til you see the gun!
I'm really pissy about 1911s. The last one I personally spec'ed and babysat through the creation process ended up on the cover of AMERICAN HANDGUNNER a few years back as , "The Best 1911 Ever?" I think the Bruce Gray gun is better than that AH longslide.
Bruce has been building 1911s forever...if you do some looking around, you can see some of Bruce's masterpieces from the 1980s. I believe he's the best "forensic" gunsmith around, in that he has a profound understanding of the relationships betwene all the parts of a 1911. I've built up parts guns using really good parts...but I didn't end up with really good guns. Okay guns...but not wowwie-zowwie 1911s. A great 1911 is really more than the sum of its parts. Walt Rauch and I had a long conversation about that very thing a few months ago...how hard it is to actually hit that "synchronicity" with a 1911. He and I have handled some BIG DOLLAR 1911s that had all the bells and whistles but failed to jell into a masterful gun.
The list of makers who understand that is short...I would include Bruce, Bill Laughridge at Cylinder & Slide, Wayne Novak, Dick Heinie, and a few others. I presently have guns from Bill Laughridge, Dick Heinie, Wayne Novak and a Master-Grade gun Bill Wilson built for me back in the Old Days, which I put more than 100,000 rounds through and eventually had completely overhauled by Ross Carter (who worked with Bill on the orginal gun).
The Bruce Gray gun is the equal to any gun I own!
Michael B
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