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Delta Elites cracking is an issue from like the 1980s lol. They made a trivial change to the frame and it went away.

I won't say they CAN'T work but I wouldn't trust them. 10mm mags by every manufacturer I've seen look completely different from their .45 offerings.

I got really deep in the weeds with custom 10mm 1911s like 10 years ago and learned some things from talking to various gunsmiths (Dane Burns, Ted Yost): 1) Most factory 10mm 1911s have TOO MUCH recoil spring weight. Realize that the recoil spring doesn't make the recoil force go away, it just...

Making high-stress firearm components out of the zinc alloy that is literally used to make cheap doorknobs and die-cast toy cars is a terrible idea, and isn't even a little bit comparable to Glocks having grip frames made of modern composites with steel inserts and slides made of high-quality...

Functionally, they're all essentially the same. Cosmetically Ed Brown is the best of the bunch short of jumping up to the Super Grades from Wilson, which are truly insane $$$. But they all feel pretty different in the hand, which really is probably the most important deciding factor. For me...

That link about the 200gr +P GD failing wasn't just written by some guy on the internet; Dr Gary Roberts is an expert in the field who evaluates ammo for a living for the military and law enforcement. That's not to say that he's infallible, but he has A LOT more credibility than some random...

The M9 and P226 both passed all the test and both have aluminum frames.

I've never heard of any kind of thumb safety affecting trigger pull.

A-hahahahahahahahahaha, no. Those books are complete garbage. They're the rodeo clowns of terminal ballistics.

Unfortunately it looks like human intelligence hasn't. None of what you've said is actually, you know, TRUE. HINT: The Geneva Conventions aren't the treaties that banned expanding bullets, it was the Hague Conventions of 1899, which predate the Luger P08 by almost a decade.

This just goes to show how no 2 1911s are really alike. In my guns they were some of the worst magazines I'd ever seen, but lots of people have great luck with them in their guns.

I can't speak to the 8 rounders, but I have Ed Brown and Checkmate 7 rounders side-by-side and they are clearly NOT the same magazine. The Ed Brown magazine body is made of heavier steel than the Checkmate, has slightly different feed lips and a coated follower instead of bare steel. If...

The truth is that because no 2 companies making 1911s really make them to the same specs, there isn't one right answer. It's not like 1 gun made by 1 company to 1 set of specs with 1 magazine designed to match like a Glock. The cheapest consistently reliable magazine in my experience is...

Look under the grip panels, a lot of gunsmiths put their mark there.

$1,500 is sneaking up on Baer territory, and you can easily get a single stack STI for that money.

What follows are just my opinions from owning a bunch of 1911s over the years and knowing a bunch of 1911 shooters. IMO if you go the route described below you're most likely to get a 1911 you'll be satisfied with the first time. Entry level is Colt, Smith & Wesson, Springfield Armory. If...

As a side note, a beavertail is probably "better" in theory since it should make a higher grip on the gun more comfortable than the GI grip safety for most people, but if you don't have a good 'smith install it and blend it in it will look like crap, and you can't undo it since they have to...

Speaking from personal experience, you don't need a beavertail to fix the problem. You don't even need a new hammer. You just need the hammerer "bobbed" (shortened) and maybe some material removed from the underside. Reducing the weight of the hammer isn't a problem; if anything, it's...

Suggesting that a total beginner buy an air-weight .38 revolver as their home defense gun basically proves that you shouldn't be giving gun advice to anybody, ever. If you can't see the glaring flaw in this logic you aren't smart enough to own a lethal weapon. "Anything can break, so why...

The "dork" label for Glock owners is wrong anyway, so quit it. . . . "Cult member" is more correct. :evil: