Hi all. I don’t yet own a 1911. But I find them them intriguing due to their history, WWII and all.
I’m also a software engineer by profession and the fact that Remington Rand corporation, that did some of the first computers, also made the M1911A1 is some interesting history.
I have some 45 autos, but I’m thinking of my first 1911. The Springfield Armory “mil spec” sounds interesting, but I don’t know if “mil spec” means anything other than some Springfield Armory marketing. Nothing against SA or anyone else. Or am I wrong?
So if any of you have a “mil-spec” 1911, why did you get it, and do you like it?
I wasn’t aware of the term when I bought my Rock Island Armory 1911.
My limited understanding is mil-spec means a firearm meets minimum military specifications.
I traded a stock Series 70 for a Series 80 Combat Government because my eyes picked up the larger sights better, and the flat mainspring housing (original to the GI 1911, btw) fit my hands better. I added a solid GI bushing because I didn’t trust the four collet bushing.
I feel the added weight of steel frame and longer barrel makes the 1911 much easier to shoot.
That’s my story and I’m sticking to it.
I saw a 1911 with a DA/SA conversion kit at the gun show last weekend. I dry fired it and I’d give it an “OK” rating. No one was rushing the table with cash in hand at the $899 asking price for an obviously rode hard and put away wet specimen
I wish I would have taken a photo, but it was a Colt slide and might have been a double eagle.
Edit#1: looking at Double Eagle photos I would say it was not one because it did have a thumb safety. The vendor said it was a kluge of parts of different 1911’s that somebody converted to a DA/SA. I don’t remember it have a swing style trigger. It could of had a slide looking trigger similar to a P238/P938 to conceal its real identity.
Edit#2: This photo was identified as a Seecamp conversion and looks like what I saw except I don’t remember the trigger looking like that:
