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Ist trip to shoot it today. It is an excreptionally nice 1911. Very little tendency for the muzzle to rise. Feels like you're shooting a 9mm. Accurate and managable. Easy to stay on target. No malfunctions with PMC FMJ or Federal Hydra-shock. And it's as purty as a spotted pup in a yaller wagon. Took 11 months to get it, but it's a VERY nice pistol. May be nicer than a certain Ed Brown Classic Custom I've shot on occasion.

Also shot a Charles Daly for the first time. It also seemed to have very little muzzle rise. It behaves pretty much like a customized 1911 in the $1.5-$2k range. It did OK with PMC FMJs, but it doesn't like hydra-shocks. I can see why they were popular 1911s.

Also the first time out for the Colt Commander with the [1*] build from Reeder Custom Guns since it got back home. Even though it was hot and sticky, the slick clear plastic grip on the weak side and lack of checkering on the front and back straps did not seem to be an issue. The bobtail job on the gripstock doesn't seem to alter the feel or pointing of the pistol, either. Those were two things I wondered about. It is as sweet a pistol as it was before the surgery. I love Colt Commanders. Hair trigger.

Of course, all these except the Commander that I've already admitted to owning belong to a very good friend and close relative of my son's. Hope he's not as prone to tragic boating accidents as I am.

Also let my grandson try out the .50AE Desert Eagle for the first time. Since I'd fired it this past Tuesday when I went to an actual range down in Tennessee (only had to drive 60 miles or so) with a friend, I just stood way back with my hands over my hearing protection. He loved it, but then he's 18 and big as a skinned mule; and he he doesn't know any better. Then we burned through some hundreds of rounds of .223 - much of it with the slidefire stock-equipped S&W M&P 15. Lotsa fun till you forget and burn something.

Nice range report. Glad to hear the Daly did a good job. I always found it funny that 1911s can be very finicky about ammo. Haven't found one yet that didn't have a problem with any type of blunt nosed/ hollow point ammo.

Chingon wrote:Nice range report. Glad to hear the Daly did a good job. I always found it funny that 1911s can be very finicky about ammo. Haven't found one yet that didn't have a problem with any type of blunt nosed/ hollow point ammo.

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Well, I reckon they were originally designed to shoot ball ammo. That's all I ever use when I'm shooting 1911s except for occasionally when I'm just testing to see if they'll feed other stuff. Builders have tinkered with the 1911 over time to improve their ability to feed non-ball ammo, I'm told. A big-name builder of 1911s once told me that even most of the high-end customized 1911s have slightly oversized chambers in them for this reason. And I guess it has pretty much worked. I've found many 1911s will feed the soft/blunt/hollow-nosed stuff just fine. A few won't. I use PMC 230 grain FMJ because I can buy it really cheap and it is pretty good ammo. Most of the 1911s I've fired it through had few or no problems. I've seen little to indicate that more costly ammo makes a huge difference. If you're just shootin' and don't need to gut somebody without collateral damage, FMJ is good enough anyhow.

But the Charles Daly I shot Saturday definitely exceeded my expectations as to quality and performance. I understand they don't make them anymore. That's a shame.