So I stopped at a gunstore and saw one of these:
You all know I talking about a Combat Commander...
What I need YOU to do is talk me down off the ledge and not go back and buy it after work...
Or, conversely, goad me into getting it.
All in comments, but mind you, I need a why. Why get it or why wait.
Reasons to:
- It's a Colt. While that cache doesn't hold me as the be all end all, it does have some influence on me. I'm not impervious. It's the company with the same letterhead that made the original 1911 100 years ago, after all. It'd be my one real purchase of 2011. (ha!)
- It's THERE. I've been looking on and off for a while and this is the first one I've seen where I could plop down the money and get it.
- It has most all the features I want. And it really doesn't need any monkeying with, really, to make me happy with what it doesn't have. (night sights, that bump in the grip safety...) I might swap out the grips and be done. If I got it.
- It's got MIM parts in it. Sure my Springfield Loaded does too, I'm sure. That didn't stop me then. And MIM isn't ALL bad. Probably give me a lifetime of trouble free service. I can slowly swap out the internals at the gunsmith over time to forging, except the frame.
- It's pricey, but that hasn't stopped me, before, you all know.
- I'd be better off, maybe, getting the XD40 at half the price of this. I bet I'd shoot the XD better.
- Other reasons I'm counting on YOU to tell me to wait and get some other Combat Commander at some future date.
- I don't want the enthusiasm of the find make me purchase in haste.
I may have to go look at it, and handle it, regardless. And if it has a sold sticker on it already, well... That's Cthore, God of Thunderboomers, telling me it wasn't to be at this time and I'll accept that philosophically.
If I did get it, that would end my 1911 desires for years and years. I'd have my spare. No more .45 pistols would come to grace my safe or need to.
You have til 2PM EST to respond...
Well, in the for column, those pretty grips on a stainless steel gun just really set it off. Were you to use this gun for the zombie apocalypse, you'd look good doing it, unlike say, a Hi-Point.
ReplyDeleteIn the words of that wise sage, Timothy Leary...If it feels goods, do it.
ReplyDeleteAnd owning a quality firearm like that is gonna feel so good.
Do it.
Do it. Then spend some time letting me shoot it, and then talk me into buying one. You tend to do that...
ReplyDeleteIf the Combat Commander is what you've been waiting for...hold off a few months for tax returns and make that your 2011 100th anniversary 1911 purchase...but that's me.
ReplyDeleteI got nuthin' except Ambulance Driver's question: Is she hawt, and does she make you happy in your pants?
ReplyDeleteDo it. It'll look good on you.
ReplyDeleteMeh. Colt is going off it's name. I love my little XD. Get it instead.
ReplyDeleteLife is short.
ReplyDeleteDo it, T-Bolt! You know you wanna!
ReplyDeleteNo no, spend that money on that speed loader for the 617 you own, and get an EOTech for your M1A!
ReplyDeleteI dunno... still on the fence. But I did bring my DD214 to work with me just in case.
ReplyDelete(for those that don't know, you need a DD214, which are military discharge papers, to buy a gun here without having to go through some other bureacrat rigmorole)
You know you're going to do this. Do it, get it out of the way.
ReplyDeleteThat pistol has soul in a way that the XD40 never will. I mean, it was a John Moses Browning (PBUH) design.
ReplyDelete'Nuff said.
Some years back, a friend who manages a local gun emporium called me about a new, stainless Colt Commander that had just arrived (knowing I corrode blue just by walking by it!) I immediately went to the store, bought it, had the g'smith put on an ambi safety, and bought a custom IWB holster. Then, I went to the range. She had a horrible trigger, and was so sloppy I couldn't keep her in 5" @ 15 yds!
ReplyDeleteI tried for 8 months, then, traded her in. Also, my WWII NM was jealous, anyway!
wv: punbong (so many jokes, so little time)
IMHO, I consider the current Springfield production 1911A1 to be the more accurate rendition of JMB's design. I believe the Colt has that abomination of a firing pin lock, which I consider far worse than the ILS. I have never had anything but great customer service from Springfield.
ReplyDeleteIf you don't get it, you will kick yourself for years and years and years. I'm STILL sad that I had to sell off my 70's Series Gold Cup back in 1980. Take it from me, you don't need to have that self-inflicted trauma to carry around. So it has MIM parts. EVERY part on a 1911 is available in the After Market. And you'll probably send it off to a good Gunsmith for tweaking anyway, right? That's what Tax refunds are for, correct? New holsters, grips, sights, ammo, etc. Besides, in case of a Level 4 Zed Outbreak, having lots of one caliber of ammo, but only one gun to shoot it could be fatal. Just keep in mind that 10,000 rounds of .45 ACP but no gun is BAD. If nothing else, say you are carrying your J-frame and there are 7 Goblins holding a school bus full of Nuns and Orphans hostage, and you're the only one who can stop them. Will you let 2 of them live to slaughter the innocents? Think of the children, T-Bolt. Do it for the children.
ReplyDeleteWell? Did you do it?
ReplyDeleteHow badly will you kick yourself if you let it pass?
ReplyDeleteSlap the Hippies and democrats upside their (empty) heads.
ReplyDeleteThis is the 100th year of the 1911. Who needs a better reason than that to by a real Colt 1911 of any sort or condition
You sir are a patriot. A Colt purchased in 2011. I'm getting misty.
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