Les Baer (thoughts)

[crestoncowboy]

of which I hate the name

I have a few knives and watches that I just pretend not to know the name. Why my watch has to be a "spec ops sealdelta tactical sooper dooper" model is beyond me. Kind of like my lady smiths.....sometimes I wish they would just leave the name off and let me fill in the blank.

People pay extra for "new" jeans that look tattered and worn-out from the get-go.

Believe it or not my company had to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars to convert a handful of machine to run the yarn for those pants. We have state of the art machinery to make perfectly uniform thread. The thread for those has thick and thin places. For 20 years we were picky about never having those "slubs" in our yarn. Then we spent a fortune to make them. Lol. I had alway assumed they were artificially worn by abrasives or something. But they are not.

As far as the OP goes I know several people with Wilson and nighthawk. Ive seen a couple Baer too. Very well made. but all together they probably won't see 1000 rounds total. Sadly that's how it goes a good bit of the time with higher end things.

 

[roval]

Nice shooting, Albuquerque city gun range?

yes, i am there during a ceasefire as i am typing this.

 

[tarosean]

yes, i am there during a ceasefire as i am typing this.

Didnt think there was such a think in ABQ?

 

[Paul7]

Didnt think there was such a think in ABQ?

Very quiet in my neighborhood, you've been watching too much Breaking Bad.

 

[mavracer]

I love my Les Baer. My used name should hint towards one reason I was drawn toward his guns.

 

[tarosean]

Very quiet in my neighborhood, you've been watching too much Breaking Bad.

I was raised there.. no TV series needed.

 

[Mark_Mark]

I love my Les Baer. My used name should hint towards one reason I was drawn toward his guns.

racer cars and gun!

I grow up in Rockingham North Carolina, Nascar 2x a year and NHRA several times a year. They needed workers during those times and the school system didn’t care if you worked. Best times ever, the whole town would be there, and I don’t remember ever paying a dollar!

 

[Paul7]

I was raised there.. no TV series needed.

Very quiet in my neighborhood, a few blocks from the city of Rio Rancho, they have a crime rate lower than the national average.

 

[Mark_Mark]

Very quiet in my neighborhood, a few blocks from the city of Rio Rancho, they have a crime rate lower than the national average.

Arizona is beautiful. Don’t let them California it!

 

[Trashyshoots]

Arizona is beautiful. Don’t let them California it!

We try, we try.

 

[Mark_Mark]

We try, we try.

best way to convert a Californian to a free state is to take them shooting. I’m in Seattle and I took some new friends to the range. They loved it and bought their own guns!

 

[Trashyshoots]

best way to convert a Californian to a free state is to take them shooting. I’m in Seattle and I took some new friends to the range. They loved it and bought their own guns!

We do but there's so many that are antigun. Don't get me started on what they're doing to our housing market again.

Anyways without derailing, if your budget allows you could always go for an accuracy x 1911. They have the same accuracy garentee that less Baer does, but with better finishes and refinement. I almost went les Baer, but they didn't offer some of the custom touches I wanted.

 

[bannockburn]

Mark_Mark

I wonder when did Colt stop making their own guns... I heard great things about their older guns

When I was a kid for the most part all you ever saw were older Colt 1911s. New ones seemed to be few and far between and typically sold for their retail price. There was nothing really wrong with the older Colts, just that they needed some work to be done on them to get them up and running again. For the most part I found that the Series 70 guns seemed to be better built and ready to go right out of the box. Can't say the same about the Series 80 guns as they were somewhat hit or miss, depending on when they were made during those years when Colt had numerous labor problems. Fit and finish wasn't the greatest in those times and overall quality suffered somewhat.

When I went looking for a new 1911 about 10 years ago I went to a gun shop where I knew the owner was also a custom gunsmith who worked primarily on 1911s. He showed me a number of different 1911s for under $1k (where I wanted to be price-wise), and said that the guns Colt were producing at that time were some of the best built guns he had seen from Colt in a very long time. Fit and finish were first rate, the triggers were great, and the guns locked up tight as a drum. All together I ended up getting two Colts from him. First one was a Lightweight Government Model in .45 ACP as I loved the way it handled and balanced in my hand. This was my new "all-around" 1911 in that it could be both a range gun and still light weight enough for concealed carry. The next one was a standard Government Model, also in .45 ACP, that would be my range gun and handload test bed gun.

Sometime later that year I picked up a new Colt Commander, this one in .38 Super, and it was just as well built as the two Government Model I had purchased.

 

[Mark_Mark]

Mark_Mark


When I was a kid for the most part all you ever saw were older Colt 1911s. New ones seemed to be few and far between and typically sold for their retail price. There was nothing really wrong with the older Colts, just that they needed some work to be done on them to get them up and running again. For the most part I found that the Series 70 guns seemed to be better built and ready to go right out of the box. Can't say the same about the Series 80 guns as they were somewhat hit or miss, depending on when they were made during those years when Colt had numerous labor problems. Fit and finish wasn't the greatest in those times and overall quality suffered somewhat.

When I went looking for a new 1911 about 10 years ago I went to a gun shop where I knew the owner was also a custom gunsmith who worked primarily on 1911s. He showed me a number of different 1911s for under $1k (where I wanted to be price-wise), and said that the guns Colt were producing at that time were some of the best built guns he had seen from Colt in a very long time. Fit and finish were first rate, the triggers were great, and the guns locked up tight as a drum. All together I ended up getting two Colts from him. First one was a Lightweight Government Model in .45 ACP as I loved the way it handled and balanced in my hand. This was my new "all-around" 1911 in that it could be both a range gun and still light weight enough for concealed carry. The next one was a standard Government Model, also in .45 ACP, that would be my range gun and handload test bed gun.

Sometime later that year I picked up a new Colt Commander, this one in .38 Super, and it was just as well built as the two Government Model I had purchased.
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Very nice guns! I like the Colt name. 1911’s are not for beginners who demand perfection out the box.

 

[Paul7]

best way to convert a Californian to a free state is to take them shooting. I’m in Seattle and I took some new friends to the range. They loved it and bought their own guns!

Lots of public land in WA you can shoot on, isn't there?

 

[Mark_Mark]

Lots of public land in WA you can shoot on, isn't there?

Tons! lots of federal land and gun clubs and public ranges

 

[Mark_Mark]

Les Baer Factor tour. Les Baer is a cool guy!