RIA 1911

Completely understand. I just like to have my pistols "ready to go". Round in the "pipe", safety off. My finger is the safety. As I said up-thread, I just loved everything about that RIA except for the single action and will just need to get over it. Also, the finish is parterized(?) and the brass hit the port on eject causing some discolorization. It came off with a little work. Is that expected?

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849ACSO said:
The only TRUE safety is to keep your booger hook off of the bang switch until you are ready to fire.
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I'm religious about keeping my trigger finger out of the trigger guard until firing is imminent ... it's the last "safety" that "gets switched off" before firing. But I like a very light trigger-pull, and so I also religiously depend on my thumb safety and my grip safety to be "higher up the safety chain" ... the trigger finger rule alone would not be enough for me, with my light trigger-pull, and with my carry method.

I think the 1911 thumb safety is MUCH more robust than the thumb safety on any other semi-auto: it locks the sear, and it ALSO prevents the hammer from being able to rotate all the way down to the firing-pin. The grip safety locks the trigger, and (on my series II Kimber) also keeps the firing-pin from reaching the primer. So two control devices control a total of four safeties. That's an amazing amount of redundant (in a good sense) safety. But for all those safeties to be of any value, you have to establish procedures that will ensure that all those safeties are on (and stay on) when they are supposed to be on. And conversely, you need to establish procedures to assure that all those safeties are off when they need to be off. So it takes some serious commitment to handle a 1911 properly, but the payoff is BIG.
 
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NotAHardwareGuy said:
[...] and the brass hit the port on eject causing some discolorization. It came off with a little work.
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Mine does that (mostly on the top of the slide, just aft of the port), and I just leave it there ... think of them as "beauty marks".
 
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NotAHardwareGuy said:
I just like to have my pistols "ready to go". Round in the "pipe", safety off. My finger is the safety.
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I just loved everything about that RIA except for the single action and will just need to get over it.
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I think you might actually like the DA/SA Sig P220 10mm better. I HATE shooting DA myself, so if I had a DA/SA P220, I'd want to cock it for the first shot ... and if I'm going to that with the P220, I'd much rather stay with my 1911. When I shoot my S&W69 DA/SA .44mag revolver, I never shoot it DA ... DA mode for me is strictly an emergency mode, for when the bad guy is right on top of me. Cocking between shots doesn't slow me down very much, because the recoil of the 69 with full-spec .44mag is so heavy that it takes a while to get back on target with or without cocking. And with only 5 rounds before a slow reload, the 69 isn't really suited for fast firing anyway ... it seems to fit my "slow firing mentality" pretty well.
 
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Also, the finish is parterized(?) and the brass hit the port on eject causing some discolorization. It came off with a little work. Is that expected?
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I'm not sure I have ever seen one (1911) that didn't so this, at least from time to time. I'm not as picky as most, as I use my guns as tools, and they are treated as such, so it really doesn't bother me. I kind of like my guns to have that "worn Levi's" look anyway..............
 
Now I am more sad about where I live and our options
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Happiness is just a U-Haul truck and a few hours drive away.........

Seriously, I feel for the honest gun owners in CA. My home (born and raised, but left as SOON as I could) state, Illinois, is ALMOST as bad.
 
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