I love 1911s. I don’t know why. They are impractical: too large for me to carry, require near gunsmith levels of knowledge to keep functioning properly and .45 ammo is expensive.
They’re great girl guns though, they really are. You can accessorize every inch of that gun. I can switch out the hammer and the sear spring and the extractor and the beavertail and the sear and the slide and the frame and the mainspring and the magwell and the grips. I could buy a Springfield and just completely rebuild it into something else. Not sure why I would do that, but I could. I love how modular they are, I love that I can customize and change them and I love that I don’t really know what I’m talking about at all.
Yesterday I sat through day 1 of the 10-8 Consulting Duty 1911 class and it was awesome. Shiny-eyes I-love-1911s I-should-buy-a-Glock awesome. We learned about detail stripping 1911s and what little bits go where and how they work. More importantly, we learned what a 1911 should and shouldn’t look like, what the signs are of bad wear and what to look for when diagnosing problems.
It turns out my Kimber is a great example gun (for everything that could possibly go wrong).
Some of the little bits that make up my 1911
The insides of a 1911 are a lot smarter than I am, there is a lot of geometry and important angles and little details that add up to make a functioning 1911. It’s not like the insides of an M&P where “you pull this doohickey and it moves this so this can activate then it goes bang”. It something goes wrong in my M&P it’s because something is very obviously broken. In a 1911 it could be one of a million little things.
Today, I’m going to go find out if my Kimber works after the fixes performed on it yesterday.
If you carry a 1911 consider taking the 10-8 Consulting Duty 1911 class or something similar. It teaches you what to look for and can diagnose problems with your gun, and with a carry gun you want preventative maintenance so the gun goes bang when you need it to.
No comments:
Post a Comment