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.
I bought Wilson G10 grips, far more aggressive. Not hard on your hands at all. I did have an issue with the thumb notch. Sanding drum in rotary tool fixed to my liking. Wipe the dust off G10, and it looks like factory. No refinishing needed.
WWWest: The reason for checkering EVERYWHERE on a 1911 is twofold. One is that grip safety design, and the Command from Col. Cooper to shoot with your thumb on the thumb safety. The combo basically removes all palm contact from the backstrap, so the gun easily moves in your grasp under recoil. Grab the gun that way and look closely and you will see daylight between your hand and the gun. The problem is that lifting your thumb to the top of the safety distorts your hand shape, and the revised position with that ducktail magnifies the distortion. The problem for Cooper was so bad that he had to have the grip safety pinned so the gun would even fire, prior to the frame being undercut that moved the hand even farther! That tail added to the bottom of the grip safety is to attempt to get the safety to move to the release position. Notice how big that tail is? Even then some people can't get the gun to reliably fire with their thumb on top of the safety.
Under the stress of a two way gun range, most shooters have great difficulty accurately lining up three items: front sight, rear sight, and Bad Guy. A red dot gives you a marker to place on the BG, and only having to line that up with the BG is a MUCH easier job. Using iron sights can have the average defensive shooter missing some shots at spitting distances! You can get an accurate shot off quicker with the dot setup, and that tends to be a safer situation for everyone, including the BG. He may quit sooner, with less damage on both sides, if you don't need to do a mag dump in your attempt to stop him.
That's a fine looking brace of pistols.
ReplyDeleteThose grips look painful.
ReplyDeleteI bought Wilson G10 grips, far more aggressive.
DeleteNot hard on your hands at all.
I did have an issue with the thumb notch. Sanding drum in rotary tool fixed to my liking.
Wipe the dust off G10, and it looks like factory.
No refinishing needed.
A really good 1911 builder once told me you want really sharp checkering on grips and front and back straps "so you'll hold onto the sumbitch."
DeleteLara Croft and The Phantom, eat your heart out.
ReplyDeleteWhat a pair!
ReplyDeleteWWWest:
ReplyDeleteThe reason for checkering EVERYWHERE on a 1911 is twofold. One is that grip safety design, and the Command from Col. Cooper to shoot with your thumb on the thumb safety. The combo basically removes all palm contact from the backstrap, so the gun easily moves in your grasp under recoil. Grab the gun that way and look closely and you will see daylight between your hand and the gun. The problem is that lifting your thumb to the top of the safety distorts your hand shape, and the revised position with that ducktail magnifies the distortion. The problem for Cooper was so bad that he had to have the grip safety pinned so the gun would even fire, prior to the frame being undercut that moved the hand even farther! That tail added to the bottom of the grip safety is to attempt to get the safety to move to the release position. Notice how big that tail is? Even then some people can't get the gun to reliably fire with their thumb on top of the safety.
The Ghost Who Walks
ReplyDeleteI do not understand red dots on pistols.
ReplyDeleteUnder the stress of a two way gun range, most shooters have great difficulty accurately lining up three items: front sight, rear sight, and Bad Guy. A red dot gives you a marker to place on the BG, and only having to line that up with the BG is a MUCH easier job. Using iron sights can have the average defensive shooter missing some shots at spitting distances! You can get an accurate shot off quicker with the dot setup, and that tends to be a safer situation for everyone, including the BG. He may quit sooner, with less damage on both sides, if you don't need to do a mag dump in your attempt to stop him.
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