Your "Dream" Carry Gun

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If you had a "free gun" voucher to take to any custom gunmaker, what would you have built?

Mine is a 1911, specifically:
Government size
Beveled titanium-alloy frame & slide
Bobtailed
10mm
Ambi-safety
Extended slide stop
Light magwell/beveling
30 lpi on front strap, back strap, & front of triggerguard
Bobtailed Crimson Trace burlwood grips
Tritium/Fiber-Optic sights, Yellow rear, Green front
8+1 flush fit & 10+1 extended mags custom made

And of course it would have to be 100% reliable. :)

I'd guess that it would cost around $10K, but that's where the "free gun voucher" comes in handy. ;)

And if I ever had to use it in self-defense I'd hope that I got it back. :uhoh:
 
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Mine is a 1911, specifically:
Government size
Beveled titanium-alloy frame & slide
Bobtailed
10mm
Ambi-safety
Extended slide stop
Light magwell/beveling
30 lpi on front strap, back strap, & front of triggerguard
Bobtailed Crimson Trace burlwood grips
Tritium/Fiber-Optic sights, Yellow rear, Green front
8+1 flush fit & 10+1 extended mags custom made
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I was gonna say, "I have mine" until I saw your description. Game, set an match - that's mine, too! Except mine would have a 4" bbl, not 5", and would have a steel slide (but keep the Ti frame). Dangit, something else I want to get now. :( :D
 
I have been jonesing after a Colt Lightweight Commander XSE .45 ACP for quite a while now.
 
It would be a .45... but with the recoil of a .22.
It would carry at least 12 rounds... in its single stack magazine.
It would have a locked breech... with the simplicity of a blowback mechanism.
All metal construction... and ultra-light, with total rust resistance.
Full length barrel... easily concealed because its so short.
A full size compact grip.

You know, somewhere between a KelTec p32 and a full size 1911. :neener:

Actually, I like a long heavy trigger pull and no safety. A S&W 642, Sig P232, P239, NAA Guardian... any of them would get my vote... but the P232 is on my Christmas list!
 
A S&W 13 with a 3" intermediate weight barrel from a S&W 10-5 or -7 with a dovetailed Gold bead on a 1/10" front sight blade, with B Coverage engraving and Ivory grips
 
Ruger Redhawk Alaskan chambered in .454 Casull with a feather-light trigger pull and some pimpalicious grips (material and color up for debate). The best solution? Hardly. Awesome? Absolutely.
 
a 2-barrel Derringer

very slim with one barrel being 4.6mm x 30
and one in 50.AE

Yes Ma´am!
 
686 - 1 W/ A 4 ' barrel

I already own it

A S&W 686-1
6 shot
357
4 inch bbl
full lug
stainless steel
large square walnut grips
orange ramped front sight
adjustablre rear sight
combat hammer and trigger
 
Imaginary Gun:

Italian-made Beretta 85fs Cheetah (single-stack) chambered in 9mm.

Real Gun:

Springfield EMP 9mm, custom flush-fit mags, lose the ambi-safety, bobtailed if possible, if not - round the butt.
 
Interesting question, and not to gloat but I guess I already have it. (After about twenty years of planning, pining, and paying for almost what I wanted.)

Start with a pre-70 Colt Government Model in .45ACP. Why? I just like the looks of the slide lettering, to be honest. Very classic, and Colt is the original home of the 1911. The Pre-70s were the last of the old style 1911s from Colt.

Make it new in the box.

Polish feedramp for reliability and add a tighter link and pin for just a smidge of slop removal.

Trigger job with the original trigger, crisp and 4 pounds.

Add a Smith & Wesson K Frame Revolver sight. Fully adjustable, low profile. Very popular "back in the day" and still a good set-up in my opinion. Round the edges of the sight blades to make it "snag-free" for carry.


Stipple front strap for grip and add flat, stippled mainspring housing also.

Undercut triggerguard for improved grip, but very subtly so the lines of the Maestro Browning's work isn't marred.

Add a front sight night sight.

Gild the lily a bit and throw in an Ed Brown match bushing to tighten things up just a tad.

Change the grip bushings out and add a set of slim profile carry grips.

(This last mod really slims the gun down quite a bit)

Bevel mag well, sides and front to back, to improve ease of mag insertion.

Add a modern low maintenance finish that resists sweat in the muggy summertime.

This is what I did to a new in the box minus the box, 1969 production Colt. King's Gun Works added the Smith sights and link and pin and throating. Gunsmith Karl Sokol finished it up for me a couple of years ago. Karl finished it off with his Mountain Tuff finish, which is the same thing as Wilson's Armor Tuff.

Very retro and minimalist by modern standards, but I like it.

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Premiuim Sauces,

It's a bit archaic, and I typo-ed the word gild, (It's gild as in coat with a gold colored metal, not guild as in a union- doh! That's what I get for drinking and posting) but here's the origin:

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Gilding the Lilly


Inspector,

Thank you, sir. I believe it may be apocryphal, but Winston Churchill once- supposedly- said something to the effect that his tastes were simple: the best in everything.

Same with me, but with champagne tastes and a beer budget, unfortunately. Grin.
 
Steel frame, hefty but not cumbersome
Single stack for slimness, holding 8rds of 9mm
Elegant but comfortable grips, made of rosewood or cocobolo
Round trigger guard
Maybe some light checkering on the front and back straps
Night sights
Smooth SAO trigger
Spur hammer
Ambidextrous controls
Spare barrel, threaded
Nice leather holster, possibly a shoulder holster with a 2 mag carrier on it
mag carrier for rear of belt

Loaded with 147gr Federal HST of course.
 
Ok here's mine

A kahr K9 alloy frame with a 1911 style thumb safety, single stack 9mm with a super short reset trigger (hell even a single action). Make mine with novak night sights, rosewood grips in a matte stainless. Perfect sized for a CCW. Kahr are you LISTENING???? I want this gun.
 
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