When is Browning 1911-380 being released?

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Does anyone have a club when this might happen? Late last year, I heard January 2015, but that came and went and nada.
 
1911-380

I was at the NRA Great American Outdoor Show in Harrisburg, PA on Sunday the 8th. I went to the Browning booth and asked to look at one. The guy got one out of a display case and let me handle. What a dandy! I kept asking him when they were REALLY going to be available - he kept saying a well rehearsed SOON!
 
I'd rather have a 9mm in a metal 1911. The 380 is inferior and the ammo is more expensive and harder to find.
 
@kcub I'd rather have a 9mm in a metal 1911. The 380 is inferior and the ammo is more expensive and harder to find.
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Au contraire. The 380 has better geometry for the miniaturized 1911 than the 9mm in a full size does. There are issues feeding 9mm in a full size 1911 frame/slide. If you're going full sized, might as well go 45. The 380 is perfect for a miniaturized 1911 IMHO.
There is nothing wrong with the .380 in a CQB or carry gun. I, as many have seen it break things at 50-to- 100 yards that place it a rung above a sledge hammer.

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I have a Les Baer 9mm that's ragged hole accurate, has never failed, and has negligible recoil. It's my favorite handgun. I have 45s but they just aren't as much fun to shoot. That's what matters. Maybe a 380 1911 is a hoot to shoot as well.
 
Ok, ok. I don't care for these inane caliber wars here. That's not why I asked about the 1911-380. I just want to know WHEN it is being released for sale.
 
Supposedly the same size as Browning's 1911-22. I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE this size. It's about the same thickness as Sig/Kimber 380's, but longer barreled and longer gripped. "Right size" is about right.

I hope, though, it is fitted & finished better with more rugged parts than the 1911-22 I have.
 
These new .380 single actions from Browning and RIA, as well as the .22s, remind me of the old Star and Llamas in those calibers. Star in particular made a huge variety of pistols, all mostly based on Browning designs. They were nice enough and the workmanship was good but the quality of the metal was a little weak sometimes.
 
There are issues feeding 9mm in a full size 1911 frame/slide.
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I think this issue is pretty much in the past. I have a Dan Wesson, Smith and Wesson and a Springfield in 9mm that run everything I have put through them. Only the Springfield needed a little extractor tuning to run JHP reliably.

None have needed any kind of feedramp modification. If Sig made one. . .I would buy it also. Maybe they do. . . . .I have not checked lately.
 
I've owned full-sized government models in .45, 9mm and .38 Super (my favorite) and only had feeding problems now and then with .45 reloads. I had a Star 9mm that would not feed hollow points but would work with lead reloads, even including 158-grain 9mm hand loads.

I like the .22 Browning but I just realized I haven't been in a gun shop since before Christmas. Where does the time go? While a .380 version makes a lot of sense, I'd be happy with a .22. If I could only afford one. When I get an itch to buy something really bad, that's when I have to sell something. I don't think I've owned anything that I wish I could have kept but didn't.

The .380 ACP is closely related to the .45 ACP, design-wise. The .32 ACP is closely related to the .38 Super. There is a 9mm Browning Long, too, and I suspect it may be like the .380. Both the .32 ACP and the .38 Super (and .38 ACP, same case) are "semi-rimmed."
 
"Dandy pistol"

Right out the gate, it got the "dandy" Quinn seal of approval. I reckon that seal ranks right up there with Good Housekeeping, UL, and J.D. Power! As if I needed any more encouragement to purchase this one!
 
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