500 dollar 1911 vs 3,000 dollar 1911

empty dick [ __ ] 45 with a couple of 1911's shooting 45 slugs at that paper yes let's talk about a couple of 45 that are empty and they're similar actually so what we're going to do is talk about how they're similar how they're different and you can see the the topic $500 1911 versus $3,000 1911 what is the difference we did a little this with some single actions and things that oh man with 1911 it's a jungle isn't it it really is so we requested this Rock Island armory from Bud's gun shop calm we appreciate their help and we thought we would compare it and it's kind of a representative of the I'll say of the lower end the less expensive 1911 the arms core of the Rock Island which is arm to Asda I mean there's lots of them in that category that are four or five six hundred dollars depending what's on them okay and so it's just kind of a an example of that so we'll talk about this gun but it's representing that class of firearm so we appreciate getting that from both gunshot and that'll go back to e gunner just as there's specific firearm and and we're going to shoot federal ammo through it a lot of 3d 45 slugs we're going to put through it both of them and talk about that and again if you're not an NRA member I hope you will look at the link in our description think about joining okay again they're not perfect but they are the biggest dog in town and I will live been a member since I was in my 20s early 20s and I don't plan to change at all I'm still gonna keep keep after them and support the NRA until they give me a good enough reason to finally in my old age to give up on them and I'm not ready to do that I belong to all the gun rights organizations on the life members of them all and I just feel like that's important so anyway my little spiel on that but anyway we appreciate the help we get you know from buds and this going is going back for the Egon or auction now this one is an Ed Brown and it's called the Special Forces I just you know me I'm a wannabe soldier now I was just kind of random that I ended up with that one got that one's a back in the T&E days they sent that out and then I was gonna send it back I said by the way what do you want for it and they gave me a discount on it and oh man you know I didn't really set out to buy and it browned I got the other ed Brown the Cobra carry because it was used I got a good price on it from a gun shop and but hanging out of the price that quoted me on it Wow you know I could I can bear I could almost couldn't get a Colt for that well I could but you know it's a little bit more so I bought it that's why I have this specific one so I don't go around buying $3,000 1911's myself but I just sort of ended up with a couple okay now when I say 3,000 that's kind of the topic that's a ballpark the five hundreds of ballpark the three thousands of ballpark but you know if you know anything about custom 1911's they you know of 2500 3000 3500 look at the Wilson Combat website Nighthawk les baer in there people always throw another one someone like me for me with dan Wesson is not quite that expensive Jenna but they make a really nice one it's not I guess maybe considered ask customers these other four people mentioned Jesse James you know and I think about laws in the Wild West but I'm not familiar with his their firearms really but they're their other custom 1911 makers I guess so excuse me for always throwing out those same for all the time okay I'm just more familiar with them you know I'm old school I guess so this is kind of representative those of all of them okay so I'm just gonna talk about that for especially newer shooters now if you're a really experienced with 1911 I'm probably not telling you anything other than just giving you my impression and but if you're not all that experience with them and you're thinking about one and maybe you're gonna do well to even afford a $500 one but maybe you have the resources you could buy a $3,000 one or a $2,500 one or thousand dollar one and you're still not sure whether to do that or not it's like a cage you know it's a jungle trying to figure out which is the best a K you know I get a lot of questions about those too and a lot about the 1911's this is kind of a major FAQ I guess video so bottom line is it kind of depends on what you want I'll give you the punchline up front in a lot of ways these inexpensive 1911's tend to work especially The Rock Island armory and I've read a lot on them I've had a lot of experience with all these firearms and and as I always do if it's anything complicated at all from my brain I prowl around the forums and see what people are saying about them I'll even print some of it out and and read I just I just like to get a good feel for what the current opinions are of people people who seem sensible okay he knows a lot of stupid stuff on the internet have you really had a news flash there's stupid stuff on the internet all right you see it in our comments you see it on you know forums and everywhere of course but a lot of people aren't quite sensible most of the real sensible people don't even comment as often you know now I mean not that if you comment you're not sensible but I mean you see a lot of intelligent comments on our videos people have been comment about that fact that's a civilized place to participate but you don't see a lot of stupid stuff that gets filtered out but there's some bizarre crazy you know folks out there of course but you can tell if someone seems to know what they're talking about and even they might be off base you know but but you get a feel for what people are experiencing with these guns with these guns and all guns you know if you've studied it and read and get a rattling off on the internet you really do and ask people and gun shops gun shows and everywhere else people you respect that know what they're talking about and the rock on armory the consensus on it is they're good guns these guns made in the Philippines are good guns the Rock Island armory has served a lot of people well I saw several comments as I was doing research the people I got you know 20,000 rounds through mine no trouble and all that kind of thing well they might have forgotten a few malfunctions but but by and large they work okay they work if you don't have the resources for a $2,000 or $3,000 of firearm don't feel like oh okay get a real gun but I'll get me a rock I'll or army or I guess or one of the Turkish 1911's or any of the others you know River make some that are not that expensive you know I'll just get me a cheap one and make do with it I'll feel bad about it every time I pull it out at the range you know it's not like that not at all hey any time you're paying three four five six hundred dollars for a firearm that's not exactly junk there are people on the planet as you know and in this country they can't afford to buy a hundred fifty dollar gun or barely can okay so so we don't want to really classify these as cheap guns five hundred dollars is not cheap and all about you but I've never considered that cheap or anything so that said there is a difference but it's not necessarily gigantic I think I talked about that in the other video with single actions you know it sometimes if something is just a little better it might cost a lot more because the handwork in it I saw a posting you all may have seen it somebody was uh he may not know what he's talking about but he said he had read somewhere he thought he had his memory correct that the Colt Python and we all know that's a beautiful firearm we all know they were expensive in back in the 70s I had bought a couple of them back then they were more expensive than other firearms that he had read that there were ten hours worth of like polishing to get that finish on the Python I guess the blue ones for whatever but ten hours and that's what someone who is is probably a master gunsmith or polisher or whatever making a high-wage you know so ten hours it just takes more man-hours woman hours human hours to do some of those things that we we don't you know we can't fully appreciate maybe sometimes okay so that's a big difference that the better fit the better finish maybe you know something simple as that front strap checker ring you know like on this this gun the rounded melted edges on it that kind of thing you know it just it just takes more but mainly it's the fit and the finish on these guns that they really drive up the cost and in addition maybe a little bit better steel now I'm gonna talk in generalities go oh my gosh it's hard to know and pin down what's water on these things generally speaking I think and I'm gonna ask you all that know to to share your your knowledge if you know for a fact some of this and can not necessarily correct me but just elaborate on it well correct me too if I need it for my reading it seems that one generalization you can make is that most on the less expensive of 1911's there's a lot of these are made overseas somewhere turkey or Philippines or somewhere the frames are cast all right whereas on the more expensive ones the frames are more likely to be a forged forged frame just like the slide and I think even the slides are forged though on these guns forged steel okay so the barrel the frame and the slide you know obviously key parts and you can pretty well count on you know the Wilson's the less bears of the world the Nighthawks you know that Browns you're gonna have mostly tool steel through the whole firearm although I've read that they do use some mi M parts you know mold injected parts alright and that's a whole nother can of worms isn't it because some people say oh that's fine they work and they don't break and they tend not to well since this one is uh the less expensive one let's go ahead and shoot them here while we're kind of yakking so this firearm does have more that's another generalization about firearms into five six hundred dollar category four to six let's say seven I don't know they're gonna have more mi in parts once you get past the frame the slide in the barrel for sure most of it's probably mold ejected parts okay and that can be good it can be bad if they're not done right as I understand but I think as a human species we have kind of a little bit perfected but we have developed the systems for making those that they tend to be pretty strong so let's shoot something I'll just put one on the gong I mean if it's gone worthy it can't be all that bad right now the sights are just like black on black so if not you think there we go I'm gonna try a pig up there in the top I'll shoot him some more all right I had been shooting this firearm off and on for whatever three four days and it's done well I've not had a malfunction we might have one today all right so now even guys a ram how about a two-liter how about for Kentucky now this thing is nice it's a the trigger is not all that bad at all and now I can tell difference between it and they had brown but it's not bad it all it's a nice break and the reason requested this specific one was it's it's kind of dick toute like this Ed Brown all right you got look at the sights they're similar all this has night sights and everything and it's got the long trigger the flat mainspring housing you got the nice beaver tail you know in both of them okay commander hammer now that Browns got you know the stippling up here and that kind we're not going we're not saying that they're the same obviously but this is just kind of representative of the more expensive firearms but this thing I'm sure yeah can I do that the mi imparts as I was saying you know they they could they make them to fit and they don't require in fact I think as I've read it's hard to machine them once you have them made that you need to make them the right size some folks that are involved in that kind of work can elaborate on that but I think that's the course the the beauty of just like a CNC machine they they come out the size you want and you don't have to mess with them a lot in fact I think it is hard to to fit them if you have to do a lot of grinding on them after that they're not suited for that as I understand now where I read that might not have being correct I don't know I'm not a machinist nice I know the 2-litre for UT that's slow Jeff hey cowboy you need a bullet so thanks she's well let me go ahead and shoot this real quick what did I do now I don't know did it walk back with a mag bullet left in the man it might have now one thing I was going to say oh let's put that last one on the cowboy these magazine guys brought out my hodgepodge unless we have a problem with here's the Rock Island nag that came with it so we're not going to be hard on these pistols if they have a malfunction let's go crazy if it's with one of my mags I know some of these have weak Springs and all that times I just grabbed a bunch of them so so just keep that in mind alright let's shoot the or empty yeah they had Brown to here just to remind you that does it shoots just fine cowboy you know gone let's see what about the turkey up there not the RAM oh let's see there's a difference right there that Brown doesn't generate as much muscle energy did you believe that yeah that's why you need you need us to keep you straight that would have nothing to do with it it's how that animal sets what that is so I mean this one you know it's got a beautiful trigger it's just this perfect it's got nice sights which don't help necessarily but the thing that helps is it's got you know the white outline there a little bit where this one's just black or if it were mine I would paint the front side do something there and that would be a lot better but I'll tell you what you get this pistol you can take to a IDPA or usps a matched you know today and you just fine with it it uh I mean if if you can do just fine so today okay I'm not let's just yeah let's just bang some steel here with it kind of fun to get out the old 1911 again I I don't shoot them often enough let's see you look at a holster here this smiled gun side holster I bought that they have me around 89 or 90 and let's shoot something saw this falling out of that bowling pin what we need some bowling pins feels good feels really good oh we got some targets right here we got a paint can that's about shot and how it's really shot whoa Dom we almost got hit great little gun no doubt about it you could buy that firearm everyone liked it one in that category and be perfectly happy you notice we have John's been showing you I think our usgi pistols out here too because I mean technically that falls into a $3,000 category as well or there abouts or more or less you know and the reason these are expensive is they were actually World War one or World War two firearms actually used in in the Union in battle and so you know that's another way you can spend more on 1911 and and because of the history the age their antiques and all that but then also back then you know one thing I think about is the way the the major custom makers make their guns again let's bear wilson combat and i don't let brown and on that align if it's in some ways it's like the way those were made you know you had you know real steel all the way through I guess tool steel and had be fitted and a lot of time involved accomplished the gunsmiths master gunsmith whatever you want to call it okay a lot of words for that but a lot of hours put in by people who really know what they're doing okay and that's that's another thing that's cool about though you get an old gun like that yeah the biggest the main value to me is fact its World War one or World War two it's so cool but you also want to keep in mind you know it's made more like these are the steel and everything there's definitely no mi imparts on these old things these old babies they might be a little loose more than you like them so and of course these custom gun makers they're not trying to be milspec now this one is milspec I think most of Rock Island armory and maybe some of the ours you have to check I don't know the Turkish guns in various ones they're milspec in terms of these parts supposedly are interchangeable with most of the old military guns like those lying there that's not as important to some people once you get into a price category like two or three thousand dollars or more it's like that with a ours you know LWRC or what's a LaRue or Daniel defense maybe I don't think you can name a lot of the high-end ar-15 they don't care whether they're mil spec or not what the reason they're so expensive you know maybe i'm i hope i'm speaking correctly when i mentioned names like that there's a lot of they're really high in AR makers they are about trying to design a better bolt or maybe a better firing pin or a better you know just this so they're not worried about it are you being able to take a part out of a you know a mil spec firearm and put it in their gun and at work it's not quite as important okay because you're you're buying those this is the different things like you're not buying a Porsche and then mad because you can't take the carburetor out of your nissan and put in yours you know what i'm saying so so what they try to do is just that kind of redesign it in some ways and they don't worry about it being compatible with every part with a mil spec 1911 they think they're making it better okay so but still of keeping in the spirit of the same gun and one thing i was speaking of cars that was gonna point out in some ways it is like vehicles you know either one of these firearms that work just fine put either in your holster and then you go to a match you could even carry it whatever and it's gonna work for it probably you're probably not gonna have trouble and it's like cars you know you could buy a Porsche or a Mercedes it'll get you where you want to go but so will a Nissan you know or even a cheaper car and sometimes even the more expensive car and even at an expensive 1911 it's it can it can break on yeah it can have trouble there's a lot of moving parts there so you're not guaranteed with any piece of machinery that it's absolutely gonna work you know every time this year next year and ten years from now yeah so something could break so so I mean I'm not going to come down and say yeah you don't want to buy that or you definitely want this or you definitely don't want it it is like cars it comes down to kind of your pocketbook your tastes largely your pocketbook and whether you can even appreciate the difference whether you even care about the difference like if you're into other farms more so the 1911's but you you wouldn't mind having one for the collection just to plink around with well you're in kind of a different category you know any old 1911 that you kind of like this is fine isn't it but if this is your baby you just love the 1911 and you are willing to put a fair amount of money into one to know you've got at least what we kind of think is histah is the best quote unquote the prettiest the best finish maybe the best fit maybe a name you're proud of on it whether it's les baer Wilson combat or whoever and I don't you see James wider post name smother cowboy so you know it all comes to kind of down to that and don't give people a hard time I see this in comments sometimes with whether it's single actions or any any gun it's it's so obvious if I mean I try to avoid this in my life being envious of people because they have a Mercedes or something I can't afford or something else yeah just because somebody does spend three or four thousand dollars for 1911 it's so obvious when we say so we rationalize it oh that's no better my gun I'm not gonna shoot that one you know with me it might not shoot it but don't give a person a hard time if they do spend $3,000 you may have buddies that have them and you think they're crazy but they get their their kicks from having an Ed brown or Wilson combat you know it's just it's just kind of neat sometimes to own what is considered maybe the best example of something so don't get them too hard a time so you know it kind of gets into like a class in the sort of thing or something sometimes you see comments like that they're both great guys they both work okay I'm gonna shoot them both again does this one again I think a part of what we're not proving it here this is just one sample but I guess I want to partly just show you that even this five or six hundred dollar Rock Island armory from the Philippines really works pretty well it's even effective on cinder blocks I think nice yeah I put up a new cinderblock just for the in honor of the 1911 don't have any more ammo yeah right here let's get back to the holster here all right well the 1911 let's try fleet got him on the last shot this one you need to hold up on the target a little bit but not a lot you can't take a 6 o'clock hold I've noticed but it's it not a big problem with the site and its dovetail so you could replace that if you wanted to so so it's kind of a plain Jane but I tell you it comes again the point is whether it's a rock on an armory or Turkish gun or whatever they are available now with you know the beaver tail the flat mainspring housing which most people prefer now long trigger you know this is a configuration that a lot of people like you know that's why kind of popular with that so the bottom line is these work it's just that when you go in with these really expensive guns you know there's probably less margin of error on on something happening tell me if you disagree like I don't know the frame cracking on you or something some major breakage okay although you know it's it's metal and submachine anything could break you know the these folks like Wilson combat and Oh ed Brown they're famous for supplying for making some of the best parts in the industry I know for years I know when I had my first Colt modified for competition back in Wow 87 or something thought I would try a little IPS see I think my gunsmith put an Ed Brown beaver tail on it you know I mean and like triggers and oh yeah I think it was an Ed Brown maybe trigger and sear and stuff yeah they've been making this stuff ever and they have a reputation just for the parts they make and Wilson combats the same way and probably the others les baer you know and I talk but uh what's it what's was Wilson Combat bulletproof right they they're they're they're extractors and things they've got to think a whole line of 1911 parts and some of them are called I think I'm right right John bulletproof I think is what they call him you and people in fact we replaced one of John's 1911 the extractor wasn't working right in a cult put a bulletproof extractor and it will start working fine you know that kind of thing so you're not gonna find that you know with a people are ordering beaver tails and extractors from from the Philippines so they can have a good 1911 that's probably not the case correct me if I'm wrong you know so so there is a difference but they both work ok and again when I say 3,000 you know we title the video or 500 you know I think this one actually is around 6 maybe and this one I don't know the special forces you know ed Brown if they still make it it's in a neighborhood of high 2000s or low 3,000 something like that but you've got all the parts that make these things really comfortable and I haven't shot this guy shoot this one again got him dirty so I need to shoot this one more often - pretty nice and now one thing I prefer about this one it doesn't have that ambi safety the hit my knuckle let's put it in the holster here oh we have a 2 liter we have neglected let's just take him out how about yeah and what about that red plate on the right over there all right I love that sound in the gong sweet sound I think there's a mag lift let's put some on the gong this thing and also let's try that red plate on the right I could you know the people from Ed Brown this company probably hate me saying I it's just standing and shooting those things there's probably no difference in accuracy at practical accuracy for me just shooting around with them now whether I can hit the red plate or not one thing it makes it a little harder is press check we empty safety is off yeah we're good is I've got to hold up on it it's the fact that I've got this site that doesn't have the visibility and the point of aim I have to hold up on the about the top of it I think which makes it a little bit harder but other than that I don't think there's that much difference at this distance let's try it let's me miss them all and the misses were really close let's try the gong okay I was holding too low [Music] I think we're also on splinter yeah so as far as this banging around shooting in an IPSec match or something USPSA whatever you're doing the biggest difference would be your sites the visibility on your sites and the trigger and the trigger is not that bad at all on the on this this this firearm so again we're living in great times you can you can walk into a gun show or a gun shop at least in this country and you can walk out with a 1911 that's calling buy it ready or one that you can do buy anything you want to do with it in the neighborhood of five or six hundred dollars okay so it's just depends of course you got the american-made issue if that bothers you this is american-made of course in any Wilson's and everything so that's another issue now I don't know if I've helped you any at all again it's kind of like deciding on an 8k or something regal an AR because there's such a drastic difference in price between these custom guns now you do realize of course there's a middle ground and in the middle ground we might sleep we could have brought a couple out here because that's most of the 1911 that I've had in my life like a cult or a Springfield Armory depending on what it has actually they still make some really basic ones I guess like that are kind of in that category but then they've got several that it would be in the middle ground you know thousand dollars twelve hundred or or whatever and a several other companies there's so many companies that make 90 and Elevens now you got them up in the two thousand range and then on up but when you get up into these four or five six companies that are just these are really custom guns you are going to be talking 25 3,000 or more so the difference I've rambled on about about the differences what you get it's neat to own something that that you know is kind of state-of-the-art but you got to pay for it you know and is it worth it that's a big question and that's that's up to you just look at the house you live in the car you drive the shoes you wear the clothes you buy what else you just go right on down the list the TV you bought the radio you bought you name it the pocket knife you care I mean there's a wide range of choices and all those categories and it's based on your income your taste what's important to you your values lots of times all of us buy something that cost more than we really need you know it's better quality than we really need I guess so so before you give somebody too hard a time for spending 3001 in 1911 you just keep that in mind we all do that probably with something you know whether I shoes or our hearing aids or whatever it might be so I feel like I probably left out some some things that I I could have rambled about but I've rambled enough and if you're trying to select a 1911 you can get a good one you know on that low end you really can the fact that there's so many expensive ones doesn't mean these are junk just like cars I see a lot of Kia's on the road and as I understand they are they're pretty reasonably priced now owing to the last you know or Hyundai's or whatever name you want a brand brand you want a name but there's a lot of people driving around and and they work apparently you know so it's kind of the same with these it's just a fact so anyway please if you have experienced your gunsmith and we have a wide range of experience in the audience their gunsmith soldiers and competitors just everybody let us know what your experience has been with with with these things you know with the low winds especially now we all know that these are great guns from the custom gun makers you can't have problems with them though certainly can they our machinery as I said but maybe you know if you've had you know again we're not hide any gun companies you know view you find a certain Turkish company when we're talking five six hundred dollar 1911's whichever ones you think are the best and you guess because you have experience with them or your friends have experience or just whatever or you machine on them you work on them I have heard to that gunsmith sometimes don't want to work on a on one of these because it's because of the cast frame or if you're a gunsmith you know share what you you know about that but but yeah if you've got experience with with um let us know you know if you if everyone and of course that's anecdotal you know that's just you know anybody there one the breaks but but anyway we'll get some input from you all hopefully on that big world the 1911's out there you may hate 1911's I don't carry a 1911 but I like them they're a lot of fun to shoot and a lot of you feel the same way I don't carry a single-action army either Colt very often but there are a lot of fun to shoot so the carry issues is irrelevant okay what we're talking about they're just great shooters at least so anyway I'm gonna quit rambling and I'm glad y'all came out today to you know kind of think about 1911's and this is just a couple of choices there's a lot of them that would fit in that category a lot of them that would fit in this category so whatever you think let us know but I don't think a lot it's really really hard to do take way too much energy I might blow a 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Channel: hickok45

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Keywords: 1911, John Browning, Rock Island Armory, Ed Brown, 1911-A1, RIA Tactical, RIA, .45 ACP, 45 ACP

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Length: 36min 38sec (2198 seconds)

Published: Tue Feb 05 2019

Reddit Comments

[u/ATLBMW]

This isn’t really the sub for personally owned sidearms.

[u/Gusfoo]

Can any 1911 owners comment on what they like about their unit?