M&P Shield Redux?

[BirdsThaWord]

My Detonics Combat Master compact 1911 doesn't have a grip safety. The SIG, STI, Kimber, and SA do of course.

Sweet looking lil officer! I have not seen those come up very often. That’s one to hold on to. The one’s I’ve seen seem to fetch a premium. Maybe common back in the day, but apparently a rare bird these days.

[BirdsThaWord]

All my pistols are mint. This picture is ten years old, and I sold the Ruger LCP and Kahr CW40, but added another HK compact 45 and a Kahr CM45. This leaves me with two nines [one not pictured] two 40's and eleven 45's. The bottom row shows my 1911's.

Nice collection! I tried to blow up the pic, but it got all fuzzy. What is the one on the lower right? Looks like a long slide version of the C3 you have over on the left?

[JohnR]

I went onto Amazon… they were all out of trigger dongles. Guess I gotta check the local adult store. Being Christmas, maybe they are all in short supply. I will ask the associate. What do you think they will say?

I expect they’ve heard every euphemism imaginable

[Bawanna]

A very loosely related story to trigger dongles. My second career way back in the day was installing fences. All chain link. Galvanized everything, we'd cement post in and come back a week or so later and put up the rail and wire. This combination of galvanizing and the lye in the cement which we hand mixed in a wheelbarrow was pure hell on hands. Especially for new guys with girlyman soft hands. Most hated gloves and they didn't help all that much anyhow.
Anyhow we had a new kid (I weren't much more than a kid my own self) and of course his hands were cracked and bleeding pretty bad.
We'd discovered the best thing breaking in was Bag Balm. Comes in a square green can, looks kind of like Vaseline but don't smell as good and maybe thicker. It's actually made for putting on cows' udders, not sure we're allowed to say **** around here.

So anyhow I told him all this and told him to hit the drug store and get some and use it for a while to save his hands. So, he hits the store and his story was a cute gal saw him searching the shelves and asked he she could help him find something. Told her he was looking for Bag Balm. Of course, she didn't have a clue what it was, so he was gonna impress her with his vast knowledge and told her you smear it on your **** to keep them from cracking and drying out. (apparently left out the part about the cow). Well needless to say the cute gal was some put out at the very thought, and he thought she was gonna get physical in an unpleasant manner. Fortunately there was another rather old gal working next aisle over and heard the exchange.
She came over and saved his life, told her not on your **** but on cows **** and took him right to the stuff. He lived to put up another fence another day.

True story.

I knew it, can't say tit's, guess I should have went with mammary glands. Course I never heard of a cow with mammary glands. Oh well.


What????? Tit's, ****. We can say tit's but not ****. My apologies, I'm way overthinking this.

[O'Dell]

Nice collection! I tried to blow up the pic, but it got all fuzzy. What is the one on the lower right? Looks like a long slide version of the C3 you have over on the left?

The bottom row of 1911's are left to right: SIG C3, STI, Detonics, Kimber, and Springfield full size ultralight. The Springfield has an alloy frame and is about 10 oz lighter than a regular 1911. BTW, I'm told that the size and design of the Detonics Combat Master was made for and the first 500 were issued by the CIA. If true, I guess that puts to shame the 32 carried by James Bond.

[jeepster09]

My "wanna be 45 1911" Sig in 9mm aint got no stinkin grip safety.

[kenemoore]

I have read stories about "special" task force cops that would tie wet raw hide strings around the grip safety on their 1911's. When it dried, it would keep the grip safety engaged. Also, some even removed the trigger guard, so they could be just a tad faster on the draw.

[Bawanna]

Yeah there was a famous Texas Rangers that cut the trigger guard. Can't recall his name at the moment. That seems very scary but guess it worked for them.

[BirdsThaWord]

Scary! Some of these "solutions" sound like a death wish, or at least a negligent discharge ticking time bomb.
Funny you mention those Rangers Colonel. I was just chatting with my lgs friend, who is into 1911's like me. He was showing me a pic of one of those Ranger guns with the trigger guard cut off.

[Bawanna]

I believe it was Wyatt Earps revolver we saw at the Red Dog Saloon in Alaska that had the trigger guard cut off. We were told he was on the way to the gold fields with his wife and checked his gun in and left without it. Never came back for it. They have it hanging on the wall behind the bar. They wouldn't let me hold it.