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Group Gripper – One Part Equals Smaller Groups in your 1911

Des Moines, Iowa - - (Ammoland.com) - Despite his advanced age of the U.S. government shot of love with the gun in 1911 continues to burn as brightly as Romeo and Juliet.

The introduction of cars with dual action, double stack magazines, and executives of polymer not substantially performed the venerable pile unique, single action 1911, it keeps rolling along. Each generation of shooters seem to relearn the same lessons of the previous generation did.

What makes the 1911, its 100th anniversary as a perennial favorite? Is there something magical in its design?What in his makeup that mesmerizes, generation after generation of shooters? There is never a good gun, it is not a particularly natural pointer. This is the slab-sided, blunt nose, and knocks over entirely to his caliber .45 ACP for many. Yet year after year, remains on top of the heap in sales of firearms and especially in the sale of accessories.

In truth, I think we love the most 0.45 for what it may be that what it is. The accuracy box was quite doubtful an entire industry has developed around it better. It is the business backbone of most handgun makers, Custom Pistolsmiths, parts manufacturers, parts sellers, gunsmiths and tinkers all over the nation. Open any catalog dealing with the shooting sports and you are bound to find accessories or parts for the 1911, most of them claiming to improve some function of the gun.

If money were no object, and it always is, .

Unfortunately, many of us have a hard enough time squirreling away the money to buy the pistol and a milti-thousand dollar trip to a custom gunsmith just isn’t in the cards for us. Does this mean we are stuck with a stock, out of the box pistol? No, not at all. One of the things that make the 1911 so popular is the ease of changing stock parts for custom parts. If you can disassemble the pistol and clean it you can modify it to look like a custom gun right on your kitchen table or workbench.

The question is, can you also make it shoot like one? A trip through the Brownells catalog will provide the average gun owner with enough replacement custom parts to keep him busy and broke for years to come. From adjustable rear sights that fit the factory dovetail to Ambi safeties, Extended slide stops, replacement hammers, mag release buttons, and grip safeties and grips to drop in barrels, Bushings and full-length guide rods. You can buy the parts one at a time as you can afford them and upgrade your pistol over time or in bunches. That is the real allure of the 1911.