Re suppressors in general, I'd highly recommend making your own, if you're so inclined and have the tools. A Form 1 is the path to approval in 2-3 WEEKS. You can easily find kits for 22s and pistols for under $50, most under $25, all aluminum so light as well. Cheaper & faster process for low power stuff. For Rifle level suppression I'd still go commercial with a Form 4. I've yet to see a Form 1 rifle kit that was tough enough or cheap enough to make a Form 1 worthwhile.

And since you mention them, a recent CMMG acquisition, a MK3 in 308. Very smooth. Geisselle trigger.

 

Along with watches, I also collect rare vintage rifles.

 

I need to get this out to the range soon. It's a Guncrafter Industries 50GI, a .50 cal bullet in a case about the same length as 45acp with a rebated rim matching that of the 45acp.

 

I just took out both of my WWI era 1911 and put a hundred rounds through each. I really enjoy shooting my old guns.

 

Did someone say 1911 party?

 

Definitely... have an assortment of different rifles and handguns. Not really an AK guy but the arsnal sgl2161 a hard one to get now at a decent price

 

I know, right? I am firmly convinced these collectors don't want the guns shot so they can have them in better condition. When I first encountered this attitude, I called up a friend I knew in college who'd been shooting 1911s in competition for decades and he actually roared BULLSHIT! into the phone.

My Colt is a common WWI bring-back with the US Property mark ground off and wasn't shot a whole lot afterwards. I replaced the pins and the springs, use Checkmate GI magazines, and people who shoot better than I do shows it can shoot quite well. I sold the original stocks to a collector who needed them more than I do.

My Colt and the Remington-UMC (Turnbull)... with their replacement oil-finished Wood Caliber walnut stocks:



The Remington R1S was 90% 1911A1 already, so here it is 100%:

 

When she said it was her first time , but you had your doubts!!

 

Nice wood on AK

 

Seems I threw gas on the 1911 fire...


Excellent

 

Speaking for myself I will shoot any firearm I own. No sense owning a firearm you can not shoot that is no fun. Screw the value I am not into collecting firearms for profit it's a hobby.
Heck I am carrying a 1911 mix master I just installed a new national match barrel and barrel bushing. I still need to turn the o.d. of the barrel so I can install a briley bushing on the slide. I enjoy tinkering with this stuff

 

I am a firm believer in not screwing with a mil-spec 1911 because, except for rare edge cases, like competition, you are not smarter than John Browning and all you are doing is causing problems.

The 1911 as spec'ed by Browning and manufactured by Colt is perfect as it is, for the most part. The Army Ordnance Corps screwed with it a bit, which can be fixed. Other than that, it's loose for a reason, who do you think you are to say that 2" at 25 yards with the original spec isn;'t good enough?

Sheesh.

Of my three 1911s, only my 1918 Colt can be depended on 100%.

 

The items I messed around with do not detract anything from the 1911 I have the original barrel and barrel bushing easy enough to install them back on the slide. I enjoy tinkering with firearms to each his own I enjoy tinkering with my firearms

 

All is good. Not talking about you, per se, but the idiots on 1911 forums who can't possibly accept that a mil-spec 1911 is, when new, perfectly accurate and does not require all they add to it. Wolff springs! Why? Colt are better. Tighten the slide! Why? It doesn't really affect the accuracy enough, the shooter can't hold it that well anyways. They want to make a match gun out of a defensive weapon... and then use it for defense.

I just don't get it.

 

Speaking of barrels and bushings. A friend owned a Colt 1911 type pistol many years ago of a model that used a collet bushing. The gun was very accurate, but had a fatal flaw.
The collet shed one of its legs which ended up jamming tightly between barrel and slide.
We tried to figure out some means of freeing it but finnaly he sent it back to Colt to be repaired.
When it came back it had a new slide and barrel. The only way to free it up was to saw the slide in half lengthwise. The barrel had been deeply scarred by the broken collet pieces and deemed unusable.
After that my friend decided to convert the gun to use a regular barrel bushing custom fitted for a very close but not tight fit.

PS
I once ran across a very old and hard used 1911 that had belonged to the owner of an ice house before refrigerators became common place. It had been carried often but spent most of its time in a desk drawer at the plant.
The surface was brown as black walnut, no bluing left but evenly and finely rusted all over like an old saw blade that had been greased with bacon rind. Every corner and edge was worn down by handling and holster wear till it felt in the hand like a wet bar of soap.

I told my friend about that pistol and he radiused all the corners and edges of his pistol to match. The gun was fast as lightning from the holster after that.

 

My two 1915 Colts. The blue one is a commercial model that was part of an order bought by the Argentine government and the nickel plated one is my great granddad's side arm from WWII. When my dad inherited it in the early 70s he was still a teen and it saw in bad shape. He sand blasted it and plated it, he also fit it with a series 70 barrel and bushing and ground the feed ramp so it'll reliably cycle semi wad cutters. It'll shoot as well as many custom 1911s.

 

I have to admit I want a Cylinder and Slide .45 Pocket Model but I'd have to specify military spec so I could carry it.

https://www.cylinder-slide.com/pocketmodel.shtml

 

Took my 10yo out to shoot the Ruger MkIV. His first time shooting it suppressed. SBR is still a bit too heavy for him though.