Thanks!

by Scribe, Friday, December 02, 2016, 08:32 (2851 days ago) @ Catoosa

It's a full size, all-steel Government Model 1911. Between the peripheral neuropathy and the arthritis, I have become increasingly recoil shy. The 9mm in that size package should be a much softer-kicking handgun. Cheaper ammo, too. (I did hold a used stainless Springfield .45 for a long time before even looking at the Colt 9mm, however.)

Only comes with one mag, but I have my eye on some Mec-gar magazines online, still in the package. I will be trying all kinds of hardball rounds at first and then try some of the hollow-points later. Previous 9mms I have owned have been the CZ-75, High-Power, Sig Sauer 229, S&W 39,and a Llama that didn't even feed hardball. It's ramp looked like an escalator.

I hope to shoot the Colt for the first time Saturday as it is already paid for and I am still waiting for the paperwork to go through. If not, I will still have my house gun with me for practice -- a heavy barrel S&W Model 10. And my junky guns -- Enfield Tanker model (.38 S&W) and a Colt Target Model Police Positive (.32).

Scribe