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United States  Old 22nd April 2005, 10:51
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USFA to make 1911
When looking around the net, I went to USFA and they are showing proto type 1911's. I gave my father one of their single action flat top target revolver's last year and it is probably the finest work I have ever seen on a gun.
If anyone cares to view the proto type, here is the web addy for them.
http://www.usfirearms.com/
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I checked out the web site..........nice looking gun. Didn't like the grips much, but really liked the roll marks they're going to use.
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I like the USFA products as a rule, don't care for their 1910 or 1911 as they are now. They're neither a 1910 nor a 1911, but I guess the can call them what ever they choose.
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10 or 11?
Agree with OD...USFA needs to do a little more research on which features
are on which guns, 'cause they ain't quite got it nailed down. Good-lookin' pistols...but for 1500 and 1600 bucks...they'd better be some real doozies with milled triggers and zero MIM or castings.

Jury is still out on these pistols. The "1911 Clone" market has done bit too many people over the past 25 years to trust a newcomer until I can get my grubby mitts on one.

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If they'd put the "1911" hammer on the "1910" model, and I found $1600 on the ground, I'd be the first in line to get one. Actually, the Colt 1910 models had short, narrow spur hammers, but they were SPUR hammers. Over at that other 1911 forum, there was talk of the exact configuration of the 1910 prototypes, as to grips, safeties, etc. I went home and dug out my copy of Goddard's The Government Models, and right there on the cover is a color pic of a 1910, looking almost identical, except for the hammer, to the USFA pistol. I'd think the market for "tactical"/"combat"/"ninja"/"match" 1911s must be about saturated, but other than the Colt WWI repro, there's nothing to satisfy those who love the classic 1911 in all its beauty. $1600 is expensive, but no more so than lots of Baers, Wilsons, etc.
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RickB...Yup. It looks like they've confused the Model 1905 with the 1910.

The 1911 has a short grip safety tang...correct...but it's got the short trigger and the scalloped frame of the 1911A1.

Somebody needs to put a bug in their ear before they get hooted at.

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From Sam Lisker's Coltautos.com


No thumb safety on this 1910.
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OD...Thassa fact. Maybe they were shootin' for one of the modified prototypes that JMB re-engineered with the thumb safety...

Plain fact of the matter is that they couldn't be quite THAT authentic and still market the gun.

The contour of the slide scallop above the recoil spring tunnel is wrong too.

I still wanna have a look at one. Somebody buy one and bring it to me!

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If they would use their 1910 receiver on their 1911 and mark it accordingly, I think they'd have a winner.
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Goddard's book shows pics of two 1910s retrofitted with thumb safeties, one done by Browning, and one done at Colt. I'm sure the prototypes were modified in various ways, over time.
 
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