And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
One of the two that I've acquired. The other is an Ithaca. Picked up the Remington-Rand in the early nineties for $200 from a friend. His children got too old to want to go camping any more, so he was selling his popup for $200. His neighbor traded him the Remington for it and then he sold me the 1911 for $200. Sweet deal............
There are many variations of the Colt 1911, and they're all good, because the 1911 is good. Colt did it right over a hundred years ago and it's every bit as effective now as it was then. It's one of the preferred LL handguns.
Still the best self defense caliber ever made. I remember a local gangbanger telling a reporter that he had been shot six or seven times and saying: "It ain't no big thing." In WWI, an American officer emptied 7 magazines when the German's poured into the trench. The result was 49 dead or seriously wounded German soldiers.
The larger diameter and increased mass makes up for the lack of velocity. Its stopping power is legendary. Sure, the 9mm is good at drilling holes, but the impact energy makes the .45 ACP the king of the hill especially when using 240 grain SJ hollow points.
Yeah, you can go Dirty Harry with a .44 or .50 mag, but that is overkill for a defense weapon. And by the way, who needs a busing tool? If you cannot field strip a 1911 with your bare hands blindfolded in less than two seconds, you have no business owning one!
When John Moses Browning wondered aloud "What would God Shoot?" a Voice from Heaven proclaimed ".45 ACP"! And, so it came to be. Col. Ollie North once said that if got shot by a 9mm and he found out about it, he would be really pissed off. My Remington R1 fills the bill perfectly.....
One of the two that I've acquired. The other is an Ithaca. Picked up the Remington-Rand in the early nineties for $200 from a friend. His children got too old to want to go camping any more, so he was selling his popup for $200. His neighbor traded him the Remington for it and then he sold me the 1911 for $200. Sweet deal............
ReplyDeleteThere are many variations of the Colt 1911, and they're all good, because the 1911 is good. Colt did it right over a hundred years ago and it's every bit as effective now as it was then. It's one of the preferred LL handguns.
ReplyDeleteStill the best self defense caliber ever made. I remember a local
ReplyDeletegangbanger telling a reporter that he had been shot six or seven times
and saying: "It ain't no big thing." In WWI, an American officer
emptied 7 magazines when the German's poured into the trench. The
result was 49 dead or seriously wounded German soldiers.
The larger diameter and increased mass makes up for the lack of velocity.
Its stopping power is legendary. Sure, the 9mm is good at drilling holes,
but the impact energy makes the .45 ACP the king of the hill especially
when using 240 grain SJ hollow points.
Yeah, you can go Dirty Harry with a .44 or .50 mag, but that is overkill
for a defense weapon. And by the way, who needs a busing tool? If you
cannot field strip a 1911 with your bare hands blindfolded in less than
two seconds, you have no business owning one!
When John Moses Browning wondered aloud "What would God Shoot?" a Voice from Heaven proclaimed ".45 ACP"! And, so it came to be. Col. Ollie North once said that if got shot by a 9mm and he found out about it, he would be really pissed off. My Remington R1 fills the bill perfectly.....
ReplyDeleteyou are indeed worthy of it
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