by tigwelder56 » Tue Dec 17, 2013 2:19 pm
Hi Pastor, good to talk with you again! It has been awhile, hope all is well and of course I wish you a Merry Christmas!! Maybe Santa will deliver one of those new compact 1911's!
You're absolutely right about the market seeing a flood of Philippine manufactured 1911's. I've handled a few and they are certainly worth a look. Like anything you go in search of, if a low price is one of the requirements, just remember that quality can suffer as a result of it. However, many of these big bore's will fill most people's requirements and do it well. They aren't a Match quality handgun but an adequate self defense gun(?), yes. Like everything else, a thorough shake down and reliability check is required. But these handguns can and do meet the requirements and they do it for a very attractive price! You're going to find more pistols available with 5" barrels than you will 3", but they're available. Rock Island Armory, Century Arms Intl., Armscor and American Tactical Imports are a few I'm aware of. American Tactical has a 7 round FX45 Titan, with a 3.18" bull barrel on the market among others. Buds Gun Shop has them on their website under $500 bucks.
I got the bug to purchase a compact .45 recently as well. I paid a bit more than $500 but did it willingly and am happy with the decision. I bought the Kahr PM 45 and it's my EDC now. They don't offer a big magazine capacity (5) but I carry it with one in the pipe and an extra mag. That's adequate for me but I know some would rather carry an ammo supply shop with them. In that case, these single stacks don't fit their requirements. Kahr also offers the CW 45 now which is several hundred dollars less than the PM and has a few differences, but they're close. Fabulous handgun and as compact as a .45 auto gets. If you're looking at other .45 compacts, you should look at the Springfield Armory models too. The XDS is another decent offering, just be sure it's a post recall model. They had a problem but claim to have that resolved. It's an accurate pistol, scary accurate!! Have fun shopping and shooting, it's a buyers market out there now!!
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