Are ALL 1911 owners nuts?

You're supposed to clean these things? I let my USP get so gummed up I can watch the slide cycle. :) Works just fine.

- Gabe
 
The 1911 was one of the last pistols that was designed to be detail stripped by the user with a minimum of tools. The BHP and most of the later "wondernines" are easy to field strip, but detail stripping is best left to a shop with tools.

Jim
 
Yes, but I'm feeling much better now! In all seriousness, I think the better description would be, obsessive-compulsive.
 
I personnally took as much enjoyment in cleaning and taking my 1911s apart as much as I did shooting them
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I'd send you mine when it gets dirty, except I was taught by my father that you never trust someone else to care for your guns. I regard it as a chore, not a pleasure. But I use the cleaning ritual as an opportunity to check the internals for unusual wear, inspect the springs, occasionally replace the shok-buff, etc.

As far as the guy who was cleaning his gun in the diswasher :eek: is concerned, he was not only lazy, but an idiot, too. SOME lead residue from the gun WILL contaminate the dishwasher. The chances of it contaminating dishes - you know, the things some of us eat food off of - makes cleaning guns, brass, etc. in the dishwasher a very bad idea.
 
quote by Lavan...

Do NOT take the sear out of a series 70 Gold Cup unless you watch carefully where the little sheet metal clippy thing goes.
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It's called a "Jesus Clip" because when it goes sailing off into nowhere, you go, "Oh, Jesus! Where did that thing go!?!?"
 
Why yes I am nuts......about my 1911's that is.

and .. any other gun is just a gun.......IMHO!


So I'm a gun bigot!
Routine gun maintenance may just help to save your life some day. A clean well maintained gun is cheap insurance in my book.

My 1911's don't require any more maintenance than any of my others. I simply prefer the 1911 therfore I take more pride in them.
 
Obsessive compulsive is good.... I must admit that the older I get, the harder it is to clean the darn things tho. Seems kind of like work now.
 
I own SIGs and Glocks as well as 1911s and they all get field-stripped and cleaned. It's just so much faster with a SIG or Glock that you miss it while trying to get your 1911 apart. ;) :D
 
blades67

I could probably BUILD a Sig or Glock in the time it takes to clean a 1911 right. I hate it when those springs go sailing across the room. :eek:
 
But some 1911s just have that, that, wood and blue *fondle factor*!

Sensual pleasure!

Same as old Winchesters and good double shotguns, some examples qualify as "fine things".

I should venture no more crazy talk lest violent and unpleasant debate ensue :D
 
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I could probably BUILD a Sig or Glock in the time it takes to clean a 1911 right. I hate it when those springs go sailing across the room.
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...sounds like someone needs some practice with their 1911...
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If you were a true 1911 owner you would know that the word is'nt nuts, it's not obsessive compulsive.

The word is: PASSIONATE

A few of you were close when you said: fondle

Gunzo
 
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