The 1911 Sucks.

[twyacht]

Feel free to read this article, and post a reply back to this asshat.

http://thetruthaboutguns.com/2010/12/yankee-gun-nuts/the-1911-sucks/comment-page-1/#comment-14785

Not the complete article, but a portion:

The 1911 Sucks
Posted on December 23, 2010 by Yankee Gun Nuts

I have said it before and I will end up saying it again: the 1911 an old design that is more trouble than it is worth. I don’t say it to be confrontational, or to draw attention to myself. I say it because I see my fellow shooters mindlessly parroting the gun equivalent of Chuck Norris Facts whenever the 1911 comes up in conversation, and I just don’t get it. I am not surprised that the 1911 is out of place in today’s world, and you shouldn’t be surprised either. What other 100-year old design is still in daily use? In the comment section of another blog, I summarized my skepticism of the 1911′s attributes thusly:

It’s a 100-year old design. It needs tools to disassemble. It has unreliable magazines. It is finicky about ammo. And, as a single-action pistol, it is unsafe for 95% of its users to carry.

In my original complaint, I forgot to mention the issue with slide-stop failures, and the whole internal extractor/external extractor situation. Either of which would be serious enough to kill any other design’s reputation in the shooting world.

In response to some knee-jerk defenses of the 1911 from fanboys who drank too much John M. Browning Kool-Aid, who told me how all that I needed to do was buy a bunch of aftermarket parts and send the gun to a gunsmith, I added:

Why does a reliable 1911 cost so much, and need so much gunsmithing?

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Should have known, coming from "Yankee Gun Nut"..... Some of the comments left already, are pretty good.

[DaverZ]

Lmao,I just posted a blistering commentary of my own on his stupidity.My closing comment on how I heard unsupported stupidity in junior high I think hits the taget right in the bulls eye.

[Hazcat]

Lmao,I just posted a blistering commentary of my own on his stupidity.My closing comment on how I heard unsupported stupidity in junior high I think hits the taget right in the bulls eye.

Good reply, DZ.  The guy does sound a 'bit'  immature, especially in his reply to comments.  On here we'd just call him a troll.

[DaverZ]

yep yep  yep  merry christmas all

[fightingquaker13]

And all of you just read his column, probably for the first time. Methinks that Yankee may be counting site hits.
FQ13

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[Ichiban]

My desire to read that article is rivaled only by my desire to watch MSNBC.   

[2HOW]

I wont waste my time on him...................MERRY CHRISTMAS TO ALL 

[kmitch200]

It’s a 100-year old design. It needs tools to disassemble. It has unreliable magazines. It is finicky about ammo.

Hmmm...his must be different than mine. 

[DaverZ]

Adressed his reply to my reply..lmao this guy really is a tool.

[ratcatcher55]

Probably thinks the Winchester Model 94 is a POS.
It fires an antique under powered round and is more than 100 years old.