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09-08-2021, 7:33pm | #41 | |||||||
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They are elegantly designed with minimum parts count and engineered (in issue configuration) to function in just about any environment imaginable needing only rudimentary maintenance. The grip angle lends to great "pointability" making fast, accurately placed shooting. They can be superbly accurate if well assembled and being all steel they recoil less vigorously than newer designs. Did I mention they reek of history? They are cool as hell because they fit, function and are true American originals. |
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Capacity is available via widebody frames if 8 in a CMC flush fit mag plus one in the chamber seems a liability. Government sized guns are long and a bit heavy but mids and micros can be had, some even with alloy or plastic hybrid frames. Please describe your ideal "better" weapon. |
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Watch what a .45 caliber does as stopping power
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Old argument. Consider the energy delivered to a target by a .45 ACP 230 grain round nose at 700 FPS versus a 230 grain .44 magnum at 1000 FPS versus a .454 Casull (SP?) at 1300FPS and things kind of fall apart.
Plus the advances in propellant and projectile tech make the "power" gap much smaller than on a caliber to caliber basis a decade or so ago. |
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maybe you should step it down to 22 Cal.
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This is it. My only complaint is how hard I have to slam the magazine it so it stays. I sense something is wrong, but as a novice, I haven't explored the mechanism at all (yet).
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I have any number of handguns that I can carry to include half a dozen 1911’s, compact 1911’s, all manner of Glocks, HKs, M&P’s, and yet, I keep coming back to my SIG P365XL. My first CCW carry was a Colt 1911 in the 1970’s. Over the years, I conceal carried HKs, SIGs, Colts, M&P’s, Glocks, S&W’s, and after 45 years, I’ve decided less is more and I’m ok and quite proficient with a 9mm Sig P365XL.
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We don't carry around town, but in the mountains, yes. My wife can poke your eye out with her Sig. I prefer my glocks. My HK sub compact is a little snappy but it'll do what it's intended for. My revolvers are just for practice/fun, but yeah, I see a 1911 in our future when prices get back to normal. Not sure which one yet, haven't researched them much
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But getting back to your original question as well as the original topic. While I love the way a 1911 feels in my hand, and I consider the ergonomics to be probably the best of all the guns I own, my primary reason for owning guns is to carry them daily in a comfortable and reliable configuration, and that pretty much explains why I have chosen to transition away from the 1911 and have gone to the SIG P365XL. |
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Note carefully if that plastic base pad contacts the frame anywhere at all before the mag seats. Trim sparingly if needed. Go slow and easy so the fit is still as fine as it is now.
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Some magazines pack so tight that there is very little give and the first round presses hard against a closed slide. I really have to slam my Glock mags in to make sure they seat on a closed slide. There’s nothing wrong, that’s just how Glock are. Perhaps that might be the case here as well.
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That'd be my guess if it seats that way on an empty mag. Kimber is known for super tight tolerances. Possibly it was assembled at a lower temperature than you're operating it. The expansion of plastic from temperature increase is not insignificant. If you only have a thousandth of an inch clearance for the baseplate an increase in temperature is liable to cause interference.
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