Posted January 21, 2016 1:05 pm by Comments

By Tim

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You may have noticed that the site has been on a bit of a 1911 kick lately. Caleb has decided to test out a couple of 9mm 1911 pistols. He even invented a rating system to give some sort of objective score for the guns he’s testing. I’m probably partially to blame for that.

In November of 2014 I took a friend of mine to run a half marathon in Richmond, Va. When he finished up I stopped in at Colonial Shooting Academy to say hello to a good friend of mine who works the gun counter there. They have a pretty solid selection of handguns, including an entire display case of 1911 pattern pistols. My friend, who we often refer to as “El Diablo” because of his knack for dangling shiny temptation in front of his friends, knows my weakness for John Moses’ semi-automatic Peacemaker. He began taking guns out of the case and handing them to me. In the course of the conversation I mentioned how Todd Green’s experience with the Warren spec 9mm 1911 had me thinking hard about the 9mm 1911 as a concept. I never thought about investing in one until I …Read the Rest

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