Tuesday - August 18, 2009

A Different Bill W To Be Friends With

Take a Wilson Combat CQB Compact, add the new “Round Butt” treatment, shorten the slide stop pin and counter sink the frame (giving you the option to use the Crimson Trace laser grips), slide top serrations, our new “Carry Cuts”, and finally this wonderful pistol is fitted with Bill’s favorite thumb-safety.  This “Carry pistol” is outfitted exactly as Bill would want it, wearing a set of Wilson Combat Starburst G10 grips with a black slide over a grey frame custom built to exacting standard by some of the best pistolsmiths in the world today.

Weight? 35 ounces, a full 10 ounces heavier than the Kimber Ultra Carry II. Unless this is a misprint, because a full size 1911 only weighs 35 ounces. So who knows?
Price? [ please sit down ... ] This handmade full custom pistol has an MSRP of $2850, which is actually inexpensive compared to the rest of their product line. But it is more than 3 times the cost of the Kimber, which is itself an expensive 1911 pistol. Yikes.

It sure is nice looking though. And all those extra little custom bits are said to ensure ultimate reliability and proper fit and easy holstering. Still, though, it makes me wonder ... for I have read the Gospel According to John, and I believe ...

1 In the beginning was the 1911, and the 1911 was THE pistol, and it was good.  And behold the Lord said, “Thou shalt not muck with my disciple John’s design for it is good and it workith.  For John made the 1911, and lo all of his weapons, from the designs which I, the Lord, gave him upon the mountain.”

2 “And shouldst thou muck with it, and hang all manner of foul implements upon it, and profane its internal parts, thou shalt surely have malfunctions, and in the midst of battle thou shalt surely come to harm.”

3 And as the ages passed men in their ignorance and arrogance didst forget the word of the Lord and began to profane the 1911.  The tribe of the gamesman did place recoil spring guides and extended slide releases upon the 1911 and their metal smiths didst tighten the tolerances and alter parts to their liking, their clearness of mind being clouded by lust.

4 Their artisans did hang all manner of foul implements upon the 1911 and did so alter it that it became impractical to purchase.  For lo, the artisans didst charge a great tax upon the purchasers of the 1911 so that the lowly field worker could not afford one. And the profaning of the internal parts didst render it unworkable when the dust of the land fell upon it.

5 And lo, they didst install adjustable sights, which are an abomination unto the Lord.  For they doth break and lose their zero when thou dost need true aim.  And those who have done so will be slain in great numbers by their enemies in the great battle.

6 And it came to pass that the Lord didst see the abomination wrought by man and didst cause, as he had warned, fearful malfunctions to come upon the abominations and upon the artisans who thought they could do no wrong.

So yeah, you can build a 1911 accurate enough to shoot the eyebrows off of flies at 100 paces. ( I own one, the original version, and it’s mighty pretty too. But it is not a field piece. ) Or you can build a 1911 that will work in combat, no matter what. But if you try to do both at the same time, you might be making a deal with the devil.

Posted by Drew458     on 08/18/2009 at 01:20 PM   
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