FINALLY .... a Colt 1911 Model ...

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FINALLY .... a >ERSATZ< "Colt" 1911 Model ...

I was at Academy Sports today and .... well.... :uhoh:... got caught up in an impulse. But, hey, "early X-MAS gift" that thought can justify a lot of monetary damage.

I have always had a sorta deep felt desire to own a (actually a Remington R1) Colt 1911. They had a few there, from some tripped out Sig version with ...uh, guide rails (pretty sure Sgt. Saunders' 1911 in the 1960s series "COMBAT!" didn't have those ...) to some other smaller kinds which, I really didn't desire.
So I wound up purchasing a Remington R1 in plain-jane vanilla condition. Now it does have nice sights which are driftable which I don't think the old WW1/WW2 versions had but I like the sights -- three dot type. The barrel is "in the white" as they say and the front bushing is silver with the front surface "brushed." Trigger is silver ... it may be aluminum but I'm not sure.
This isn't my first .45. I have a Springfield XD-45 and a XDS also in .45. But at last I now have a "Colt 1911" that largely mimicks the type of semiauto many of my heroes of yore carried.
The NICE thing .... it fits my hand! I never realized how nice this gun was ergonomically!:)
 
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John Moses Browning did an AMAZING job of developing the M1911. He was SO ahead of his time! I sometimes wonder if he wasn't really just VISITING this planet.

Another of my heroes (or patron saints), the late Col. Jeff Cooper said of the 1911, "Ëxcept for the claw hammer, I know of no other tool invented in the previous century that is still the best tool for its job in THIS century." I find that assessment pretty difficult to argue with.
 
Congratulations on your new Remington R1 1911. It's a solid gun with a decent reputation and it should serve you well. However, it's not a Colt.
 
WC145 said:
Congratulations on your new Remington R1 1911. It's a solid gun with a decent reputation and it should serve you well. However, it's not a Colt.
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Meh...A Colt would likely have cost more $$$$ than I was really willing to spend.
From what I understand, during the war production was subcontracted out to various companies anyway .... wasn't Remington one of them? I'm not an expert so I could be wrong.
In any case I am liking the gun!.
 
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Meh...A Colt would likely have cost more $$$$ than I was really willing to spend.
From what I understand, during the war production was subcontracted out to various companies anyway .... wasn't Remington one of them? I'm not an expert so I could be wrong.
In any case I am liking the gun!.
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Not a thing wrong with the R1, don't get me wrong, but in your post you said a couple of different times that you got a Colt 1911.

Remington Rand, a typewriter and business machine company, built 1911s during WWII.
 
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I also thought you had bought a Colt Government (a.k.a. 1911), until I went back and reread your post. I looked at a Remington R1 when I was thinking about a new 1911 but decided I really wanted a Colt and bought this one. The rollmark, "100 Years of Service" on the slide was an added bonus, along with it being such a well built gun. Enjoy your new 1911 and let us know how it does at the range.
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None of the current 1911 offerings, including the Remington R1 and the Colt itself, really compare with the WW2 classic. They all have been "improved" to some extent. Some of these "improvements" are debatable. For example, taller, more visible sights tend to snag on holsters, and enlarged ejection ports let more dirt into the action. Most of the "improvements" would not have been accepted by the military in the heyday of the 1911. (Some of the improvements, in fact, relate to better feeding of non-military ammunition.)

There is only one alternative if you want to get a "real" 1911, and that is to get a military-issue original. (Or maybe a pre-Series 70 commercial Colt.) But be prepared to spend $2,000 for a good one. (I remember that back in the early 1960's, the DCM was offering surplus .45's for $17.50. Those were the days.)
 
Well, phart. I was hoping to learn something about a Colt gun.

OP, you should change your thread title.
 
To those who thought I was talking about a COLT "Colt 1911" I apologize. I tried to change the thread title as TarDevil suggested but the forum doesn't allow that.
The gun was originally designated a "Colt 1911." To me, THAT is what it is. It was subcontracted out to Remington Rand and I think some other companies ....but I think everyone called them "Colt 1911s" or "Colt 45s" generically.
I have always called them Colt 1911s myself -- sometimes I didn't even know who made the particular gun I was talking about.
So, it is in that vein that I called it the "Colt 1911" even though, yeah, it isn't really a Colt, it's a Remington.:eek:
 
I tried to change the thread title as TarDevil suggested but the forum doesn't allow that.
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Sure it does. You just have click on "Go Advanced" after you click on edit.
 
Don't feel bad. Remington Arms (Remington UMC) did make 1911's during WW1, and Remington Rand (a distant corporate relative) made 1911A1's during WW2.

What would bother me is not the name on the slide, but rather the departure from the original specifications. Colt itself is as guilty of this as anyone.
 
Congratulations! And don't forget your $75 rebate for purchasing the R1, if you haven't yet.
 
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To those who thought I was talking about a COLT "Colt 1911" I apologize. I tried to change the thread title as TarDevil suggested but the forum doesn't allow that.
The gun was originally designated a "Colt 1911." To me, THAT is what it is. It was subcontracted out to Remington Rand and I think some other companies ....but I think everyone called them "Colt 1911s" or "Colt 45s" generically.
I have always called them Colt 1911s myself -- sometimes I didn't even know who made the particular gun I was talking about.
So, it is in that vein that I called it the "Colt 1911" even though, yeah, it isn't really a Colt, it's a Remington.:eek:
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Not to nitpick, but this really is not correct either. The original formal designation was M1911, not "Colt 1911."
 
Your quickly learning why the 1911 is an "experts" gun.[emoji41]
 
Congrats on your purchase. I hope you have fun with it. Last year I picked up the Ruger version & you are right the ergonomics of the 1911 platform are wonderful.
 
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