Here's a recent explanation of "Why so many?"... I've never owned a 1911 pattern gun. I've fired a couple and liked them, but I chose to stick with Glocks because they all function exactly the same and I know exactly what it will cost to buy and customer them. 1911's on the other hand are a completely different monster. I know that the customization of a 1911 only stops when the checkbook cries "PLEASE! NO MORE!!!"
I was at the shooting range on Sunday. The guy beside me asked what kind of Glock I pulled out of my range bag and I told him it was a Glock 20, 10mm. He said he had never fired a 10mm and of course I offered it to him with a full magazine of Underwood ammo and told him to hold on tight. When he was finished, he handed me his very custom STI Trojan 1911 in 9mm. The slide felt like it was running on about 40 ball bearings and the trigger was at about 3.5# with no creep, very short travel, no overtrave, nothing but a short crisp "boom" I had a white target with a 1/2" black dot in the middle at 7yds and pulled the trigger. There was nothing on the target. I missed the entire target. I fired 2 more rounds and hit the edges of the black dot. How did I miss the target completely with the first shot and hit so close with the next two? Upon further inspection, the very first shot with that pistol was inside the 1/2" black dot, I just couldn't see it. Now I am locked in hand-to-mind combat to resist the urge to buy a 1911, knowing that I would probably have as much $$$ wrapped up in that one gun as a bagful of Glocks. That's how it works. That's why it's never "enough".
I was at the shooting range on Sunday. The guy beside me asked what kind of Glock I pulled out of my range bag and I told him it was a Glock 20, 10mm. He said he had never fired a 10mm and of course I offered it to him with a full magazine of Underwood ammo and told him to hold on tight. When he was finished, he handed me his very custom STI Trojan 1911 in 9mm. The slide felt like it was running on about 40 ball bearings and the trigger was at about 3.5# with no creep, very short travel, no overtrave, nothing but a short crisp "boom" I had a white target with a 1/2" black dot in the middle at 7yds and pulled the trigger. There was nothing on the target. I missed the entire target. I fired 2 more rounds and hit the edges of the black dot. How did I miss the target completely with the first shot and hit so close with the next two? Upon further inspection, the very first shot with that pistol was inside the 1/2" black dot, I just couldn't see it. Now I am locked in hand-to-mind combat to resist the urge to buy a 1911, knowing that I would probably have as much $$$ wrapped up in that one gun as a bagful of Glocks. That's how it works. That's why it's never "enough".
