Top 1911 .45 Picks For Under $750

Top 1911 .45 - Under $750

  • Kimber

    Votes: 27 37.5%

  • Para Ordnance

    Votes: 2 2.8%

  • Colt

    Votes: 14 19.4%

  • Springfield

    Votes: 21 29.2%

  • Other

    Votes: 8 11.1%
  • Total voters
    72
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El Gaucho

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I'm in the market for a 1911. I've never owned a 1911 - my auto loaders are SIGs, Rugers and Berettas. I want to spend around the $750 range.

This gun would be for home defense, target and plinking. I prefer stainless steel, but blued is OK.

I would appreciate your suggestions/comments.

El Gaucho
 
Colts are the only ones that can be re-sold for something close to their original purchase price. If that doesn't matter, than any of the above will do.
 
1911

I second the Norinco 1911a1....actually no, they are aweful, in fact anybody who owns one should send me theirs just to get rid of their aweful, very reliable and accurate gun! heck i'll even pay shipping! ;)
 
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Yes there is/was, GRD. Until Klinton banned importation of Chinese guns in the mid-90's, Norinco was importing a very good GI-spec M1911A1. It looked, shot, and handled just like a GI .45. It was also selling for only about $300 or so as well. They can still be purchased in Canada. No doubt Colt and Springfield let out sighs of relief when Norinco left the US market! I find it disgusting that it was left to the Chinese to give the American shooting public something the American 1911 makers refused to make- a plain-jane, true-to-appearance GI .45!
 
Didn't know there was such a thing as a top 1911 for UNDER $750. I thought anything else was just a paperweight.:barf: I wish they had a choice of "none" on the poll.:barf:
 
If Colt had their act together and made reliable products all the time and not just in spurts I could recomend them. But this is not the case. Get a Kimber or Para.
PAT
 
Are used Kimbers that much in TX? I just priced a NIB Kimber (2001model, not the II) Custom Target w/Matt finish at $739.00. I hope to get my purchase permit by next Friday:D
 
My money is on Colt. I don't like MIM parts, and I don't like Kimber rollmarks, so theyre out. I don't like the feel of the SA guns, the dustcover and grip is contoured different than what I like, I prefer to buy American Made, and frankly I think their service sucks. I don't like the Paras, I just think I'd rather have a forged frame than cast. Plus Colt's are prettier:)
 
I got a Springfield Loaded Stainless for $650 NIB. I went Springfield because it had all the features out of the box I would have added anyway....beavertail, extended safety, Novaks, forward slide serrations, Delta hammer, Ed Brown memory groove, and a slight beveling and dehorning job.

It's been amazingly feed-reliable and very accurate right out of the box, although the trigger was a little heavier than I would have liked, probably around 7 pounds.

The dustcover and grip have a bit more meat on them than a Colt or a Kimber, but you can always have a 'smith take some material off.
 
get you a colt and add a trigger beavertail sights on and on and on or just buy a springfield or kimber and be done as for old colts their fine the newer ones quaility really sucks big time:D
 
"get you a colt and add a trigger beavertail sights on and on"

Or, leave it alone and shoot it on and on and on...

"or just buy a springfield or kimber and be done"

Until all those cheap-ass sintered metal parts break, and then you can wait in line with the crappy service deptartment to get them fixed.

"as for old colts their fine the newer ones quaility really sucks big time"

Wow. This goes against everything I've seen, and heard. Just what are you basing this statement on? A "new" pistol you saw at a gunshow in 1995?
 
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Is there something in the serial number or stamped on the frame somewhere so you can tell if a particular Colt is one of the good ones or not?

Usually people claim that whatever the current Colt production is also the good one. They claimed that when the 1991A1 came out. Now those same people say they're junk, and the new ones are good. I'll be interested in seeing whether that pans out in 5 years.

Are the sinterized parts in the Kimbers really breaking? Or are they just as durable as Colt's plastic parts?
 
Yeah, their breaking. Go to the 1911 forums and look under the Kimber section. And last I checked, Colt didn't use plastic sears, hammers, firingpin retainers, extractors and slide stops.

I wonder how much stress a plastic mainspring housing or trigger is under:rolleyes:
 
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