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Safe queens are like playboy models fun to look at and fantasize about.
But I like mine like big girls warmed up rode hard and put away wet
None of them. I would go to heirloom precision.
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I've owned many brands of 1911's, and after trying several high end guns, I chose to order my Wilson Stainless Professional. I decided to order what I wanted with the particular bells and whistles and have never regretted my decision for almost 20 years and over 10,000 rounds. I carry it in a custom Milt Sparks Versa Max 2 IWB holster with a custom IWB dual mag carrier. If I buy another it will be another Wilson. Here's mine.
beautiful
No argument there. My silverback 10mm gets shot a lot. Puts holes where I point it with boring regularity.Buy a dan wesson and shoot the everloving shit out of it
I have owned a Les Baer Premier II, a stainless Wilson Combat Classic, a Wilson two toned CQB, and a stainless Ed Brown.
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The Les Baer was the worst 1911 I have ever owned. It arrived with damaged bluing. I contacted the factory and was basically told to go fly a kite. Les himself even told me he had no time to deal with customer problems. He last words to me were "sell it if you don't like it, someone else will be glad to take it off your hands!" I did just that a few weeks later.
When I pay close to $2,000 for something I expect to get good customer service. Not at Baer. At least not 10 years ago.
His 1911s are also built to over tight tolerances. They tell you to shoot 500 rounds through your pistol before you attempt to take it apart for maintenance. I tried to take mine apart after only 200 rounds. The slide and barrel got wedged together partly open. It took a large rubber mallet and my bench vise to get them apart. No other "high dollar" 1911 I have ever owned was this way.
Wilson Combat has a saying that goes something like this "we don't have to build them tight, we build them right".
The Ed Brown was a good pistol, but I found the Wilsons more to my liking.
All high dollar 1911s are great. I had to buy the three in the photo before I decided to keep the stainless Wilson Classic at the bottom. The other two pistol have gone on to other happy campers.
DON'T BUY FROM Les Baer.
Unless you find one in the wild I don't think any of those smith's are taking on new builds.Baer, Wilson and Brown are more semi-customs or well fit production guns.
Look at guns from Gregg Derr, Chuck Rogers, Ted Yost, or Jason Burton. Harrison Design is good too.