Will Beararms posted an interesting thread in several previous messages: "I have found that the .45ACP is best suited for larger, heavier, steel framed pistols. I am not affected by the recoil of a full-sized 1911 variant in a stress fire situation but I assure you that a lightweight polymer or aluminum framed or a cut down steel platform is a different story."
His premise is that it is fairly easy to score accurate target hits with a lightweight .45 (e.g. an aluminum framed M1911 or a Sig P220) while engaging targets on a stationary range, but a WHOLE 'NOTHER STORY when you attempt to engage targets in a moving, highly stressful scenario a la Gunsite. He mentioned having several stoppages from inadvertently limp wristing while under stress.
Figured I would go ahead and start this thread:
Are we deluding ourselves in thinking that we are going to easily control our lightweight .45s when the adrenaline is pumping and out butts are on the line? I know for a fact that I have to have dry hands and a death grip on my Colt CCO to keep it from shifting in my hands after the second round is fired. I am tempted to replace the factory rosewood grips with a Hogue grip with finger grooves.
I can control a full size all steel 1911 much easier. Of course, it is a pain to carry... But a heck of a lot easier to bring into action and shoot repeatedly when under stress!
Thoughts?
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"Why, I'd rather suffer through a proctologist's exam than pack a Kimber!"
Gen. Thomas Jonathan "Stonewall" Jackson
Manassas, VA
1862
His premise is that it is fairly easy to score accurate target hits with a lightweight .45 (e.g. an aluminum framed M1911 or a Sig P220) while engaging targets on a stationary range, but a WHOLE 'NOTHER STORY when you attempt to engage targets in a moving, highly stressful scenario a la Gunsite. He mentioned having several stoppages from inadvertently limp wristing while under stress.
Figured I would go ahead and start this thread:
Are we deluding ourselves in thinking that we are going to easily control our lightweight .45s when the adrenaline is pumping and out butts are on the line? I know for a fact that I have to have dry hands and a death grip on my Colt CCO to keep it from shifting in my hands after the second round is fired. I am tempted to replace the factory rosewood grips with a Hogue grip with finger grooves.
I can control a full size all steel 1911 much easier. Of course, it is a pain to carry... But a heck of a lot easier to bring into action and shoot repeatedly when under stress!
Thoughts?
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"Why, I'd rather suffer through a proctologist's exam than pack a Kimber!"
Gen. Thomas Jonathan "Stonewall" Jackson
Manassas, VA
1862