Les Baer Premier II 9mm

Haycock 45 and guess what it's 1911 day at the compound and you know what they say sometimes less is more oh speaking of less is more I'm out of ammo let's put a Nolan in get that rascally to jump like that they love 9-millimeter I swear see what the other one will do well he does jump oh yeah 1911 5 les baer okay so now you got the joke right less is more some would say that okay and that's what we're gonna talk about les baer 1911 okay we've done ed brown we've done Wilson combat so this is I guess kind of the third I would say the Dan lessons were kind of close to these but as far as they're really custom 1911's this is kind of the third and in the group I don't know I always think in terms of four four of them out there Nighthawk let's be red Brown and Wilson combat if you think there's some others that are equal throw it out there you know I always think of those four though as making really really premium 1911's about the most you can do to fine-tune a 1911 and manufacture it as I guess in state of the art that's kind of way I think about it but anyway we're going to talk about it we're going to shoot some more and let you know what we think see if they're any good how's that and before I forget we didn't get this from Bud's gun shop we borrowed this from a viewer okay in Murfreesboro but please go to the bud shop Bud's gun shop comm link and which you can find in our website Hickok 45 calm yeah but anyway you can find it when I trouble everybody knows where Bud's gun shop is and show your appreciation they really help us a lot and we'd appreciate if you'd support the people that do us just like the NRA go to the link and the description and join up and get a big discount all right we need all the people we can as members of the NRA whether they're perfect or not whether you think they're perfect or not they are the giant among gun rights organizations join them join them all if you can afford it okay so let's go free and take a look at this let's bear now if you're new to firearms and you don't know a les baer from an Ed Brown or from a Ruger or whatever yeah maybe this will be a little bit of information for you it's it's just one of the premium custom-made 1911's all right they're expensive we're not really looking at this firearm reviewing quote-unquote this firearm with I guess the intent that we need to give viewers the kind of an evaluation of this firearm because lots of them are planning on buying one like this because that's really not the case is it there this one is $2,600 for example and that's kind of what you can expect to pay from these companies I mentioned anywhere from what 2,000 to 3,000 to 4,000 they are expensive and you might say they're overpriced there's that phrase that we hear quite often which generally means it's more than I can afford or more than I want to pay so I call it overpriced and some things might be overpriced that's a subjective term it just sometimes takes a lot of money to do to do certain things to a handgun or a car or anything else that can't just be done on an assembly line you know sort of thing you're relying on the CNC machinery computer machines that cut out a lot of gun parts these days and do it really well in fact you'll see that as an advertisement for I was in fact I was doing some research on a firearm recently in 1911 and they're you know they're bragging about everything is cut out CNC machines and it fits you know really well close tolerances and all that accurate and that's true these days the most basic 1911 or a lot of firearms should be put together pretty well because if you use in that economy it's computerized and you know it's it that should there should be a lot of consistencies what I'm trying to say and they should be fit pretty tight and work pretty well not that they have to be extremely tight in my opinion but but anyway what they do with these kinds of firearms I know less bear if you look on their website and I guess that Brown Nighthawk Wilson combats kind of all the same is they don't rely on you know cutting everything out to where it's going to fit perfectly they make it oversized is one of the things they do like your slides when they cut the slides and frames they are not going to fit really very well they make them oversize so that then gunsmiths take it and then they fit the parts okay they fit it these are folks with lots of experience with 1911's and then they actually finish the job by fitting all the parts and most of the parts are real steel or I don't know exactly there's a lot of different opinions on what parts are forged and that sort of thing and made out of bar stock tool steel and what's not but most of these kinds of firearms they're they're made from they're machined okay now you've got some parts that might be just cast forging it's like it really doesn't matter and I don't know what they make the beaver tail grip safety out of there but it wouldn't have to be made out of tool steel to withstand lots of pressure and that sort of thing it's just a part that needs to be able to you know be pressed and work right so there are some parts I don't think companies like les baer Ed Byrne the others I mentioned used mi in parts at all in mold injects injected moldings and things I don't the metals I don't think they use really anything like that probably okay whereas you'll find lots of those kinds of parts on a lot of modern firearms okay and actually they work pretty well and as I've understood and read about it if you do that process correctly and it's some it's involving it's a recipe they mix polymers and metals and different things together and you know in a soup I guess and pour it into a mold and hardens and then they they finish fitting that whatever it is but that's what in and they can you know like a safety or maybe a sight or different parts of firearms are made from that sometimes even an extractor I think on some firearm maybe even the newer Glocks and so if it's done correctly I understand can be it can be very strong and worked really well and be a reliable piece but a lot of people have an aversion to that and and so anyway people are paying a lot of money for a 1911 like this prefer to have it out of tool steel for the most part okay well it's magical I'm yakking and I know they closed up the slide there and get a good look at it anyway this is the kind of firearm that if you're willing to pay you have the money and you want a 1911 that is just hand fitted by professional gun sternness down to really every last part and one that is extremely accurate and should be extremely reliable you know this is what you get this I think les baer guarantees I know this is the premier two and I think it's on all this 1911 so I think they guarantee three inch groups of 50 yards now that's guaranteed that's not like saying you could get up to you know commercials are you could get up to you could get up to a certain number or whatever it is that's actually guaranteed so you know that's saying a lot right there and now is that's something most of us are going to notice probably not right are you steady enough to shoot 3-inch groups at 50 yards but uh it's nice to know it would it would do that ago now this thing feels like glass that that slide on the frame when you pull that slide back if it really feels nice I'll tell you and that's what you get you know you get a gun that feels great the checkering it's 30 lines per per inch and it's very fine and it feels great I mean it feels great it just locks your hand in but it doesn't scratch you the serrations same thing they're very fine you got the other les baer custom size they're like they will Bomar size sweet back in the 80s and 90s and it's it's just a nice firearm no doubt about it a lot of you would say oh that is cool but I'd won in 45 and that's understandable because we think of 1911's as 45s don't we although we're getting away from that they're available in so many different calibers 40 you know a 38 super 45 9 millimeter 10 millimeter but it's a nice gun I'm not going to field-strip it I mean it's it's got your standard spring and everything set up it is very tight I don't want to wear this thing out and scratch it but the the bushing the barrel bushing is so tight that it's very difficult to get off so I'm not going to mess with it as it's not my firearm and I'll let the owner worry about that but I'll get it off just enough to clean it but it's very few know it's fitted beautifully and of course you don't see machine marks and stuff you know inside though that's the standard 1911 except in nine-millimeter but it feels like a great shooter I mean and it is a great shooter we'll shoot it some more put a magazine in it I think it comes with two mags and we got a couple of wilson combat 9-millimeter mags here alright that slide just feels like butter I wonder if it'll smoke pot if not we need to let les baer know it's just not suitable for that I see a 12-ounce er there Yeah right that oh oh look at that doggies let's put a couple on this target over here the less bear target I'd have put them way off the center just to prove it's not accurate now that oh wow looks like shot a good group there I wasn't even try it I am NOT a paper shooter for the young oh look there's a fly up there by the date look at that fly oh let's go take a shot at him but uh I yeah I don't get a big kick out of shooting a lot of paper it's good to kind of see where your sights are citing a gun but you know me I like to bang steel and just more fun yeah cowboy if you've never shot a 9-millimeter 1911 you might have an aversion to those because you think of 1911 ought to be a 45 or it's not in 1911 I advise you to try one sometime they are really sweet to shoot they just feel great in the hand right plate I think I know where to hold on these sites where's knowing where to hold and holding there is another issue let's put one on the gong there's probably one left maybe a couple laughter you hear that Gong I said new Gong but that little 9 millimeter makes it really Gong so those who were worried about that yep no new Gong Gong is pretty well and actually it's supposed to be our 500 but I noticed some of the shots I've taken that and I even hit him in really high-powered rifles but it looks to me like it might be a little softer then you know some AR 500 I don't know well we'll see about that but it rings nicely so now two of these mags are that's the that's the Wilson Combat that's Wilson combat so we'll assume they're all gonna work phone and I have one more somewhere I probably stuck it in mine it's not in the gun it's in my shirt pocket that's usually what happens in there right so what else about this if your skeletonized trigger there and everything it boys it a sweet trigger it's I think it's supposed to be about four pounds three and a half and it's just right where I would want one if I were going to compete with this thing this is a very common this premiere to is a very common I mean it's not common like every other person you see competing at a USPSA match has one but it is used quite commonly for by people who can afford it or want one you know in limited class in u.s. BSA in probably 40 or 45 caliber quite often the nine-millimeter - I guess so it's a it's it's a one of the standards you know in that game I think less bear was a very fine competitor at one point and I've met him at SHOT Show or NRA meetings a couple of times he's offered to send us ones that just just let him know check in with him or his people you know whatever we just have never done it and a viewer in a chatter in Murfreesboro Tennessee offered to let us borrow one here he's lent us several firearms so yeah sure you know so we just haven't gotten around to going directly through les baer he seemed like a really nice guy they always have a nice setup at the big shows and they make a lot of firearms they make like ar-15s I don't think he does shotguns a lot of these custom 1911 makers like Wilson and well I say that maybe Ed Brown and Nighthawk go and do shotguns either by Wilson combat and it's famous for some of their shotgun modifications all that - I don't think that les baer does shotguns he checked their website manually ARS and in 1911 s so anyway if you've ever if you've got a lot of extra money lying around and you love 1911 it's just another option all let's load hollow points because you know this is kind of firing somebody's going to want for self-defense right it's just one of those deals as I've said before it's it's nice to know what what money can buy what's out there you know and again you get the hand fitting you get tool steel you get firearm that is you know it's guaranteed to be accurate and reliable you're not going to probably have problems with it but chime in there you know if you have less browns Les Brown les baer ed Browns Nighthawks Wilson combats maybe have experience with all four of them okay if you have you know anything to add jump in now hopefully we don't get people that just trolls that hate les baer hate one of the other you know based on your experience okay based on your experience you know what do you like about the les baer what do you not like you know very various if you have others you can compare them with other than yes oh they're overpriced you couldn't get a better gun for less money so all that but yeah they're not cheap and for some reason I think this same gun in 45 is maybe I've dreamed up I think it's around 2000 Celestin then with the nine-millimeter costs I'm not sure what all the reasons are for that but the nines are a little more expensive I believe and it really is fun shooting a nine out of his big old heavy 1911's it's like shooting a 22 almost and of course one like this it's like smooth as glass with a great trigger it's it's pleasant experience to say the least and of course we're using federal ammos you can see shooting mostly well 115 grain and we'll try these hollow points because this is probably going to be the most common carry gun you know I'm sure you see out there for long right you're right let's get all these magazines together here alright let's see if it'll feed hollow points although I don't think that's high on the list of priorities with a farm like this maybe it is let's put one on this pot alright seems to feed them but one on a bowling pin oh let's put a hollow point on the gong no let's try the red no let's try a pig I suffer from a TD or left pig alright well I just uh I just need a nose Pig little hog hunting hair nice let's try the red plate all right a little higher gotta figure out where the slides need to be that's half the battle isn't it let's uh let's hit that gone now these are 115 grain not exactly powerhouse you hear that old Gong ringing just fine sounds good sounds good let's put it back in the holster here all right let's get look somewhere in the paper here to the mag here somewhere come in there and shoot the stop sign it really all you could machine-gun with this thing in fact I want to do that once before we wrap up here such a wonderful trigger and you know just a great feel to the gun if you found yourself in the need to machine gun you could do it with this and no doubt about it recoil is negligible now you don't want to have to pay 2,600 bucks to get a firearm just to get reduced recoil but if you have a 1911 like this or just a nice 1911 this would be a fine firearm for a novice to shoot you know because there's just so little recoil I'm gonna top it off here safety on all right so if the need arose or I need to put a lot of rounds downrange whether I hit or not I mean you literally could almost go full auto when you have a great trigger a great grip and all that so anyways a les baer it's neat to have one less pair custom the premier to just to shoot a nine-millimeter you know they just they're there again one of those state-of-the-art pistols you know you've got the great Shack ring good size I still would have to get me some color on the front sight it's hard to for me to pick up that front sight without it being white or something or uh some insert in it and so I still prefer that and you do have a wide safety this kind of comes with a kind of a paddle safety and it's an ambi safety it's a little thinner on that side which makes that less problematic I generally don't like those at all as you know complain about them because might they hit my knuckle and but this one doesn't really create a problem cause it's thin and you know you've got flat mainspring housing and long trigger all the stuff that most people like on a 1911 these days not everybody but most people like those and on competition epistle especially and of course they could you get a different safety and all that if you don't want that big old paddle safety I'm sure but this is kind of a you know off the line the premier two and nine-millimeter found out what you get I'm not sure what all options are available but so anyway it's just another option for for those of you that have more money and you know what to do with and you decide that you'd like to buy a really high dollar 1911 this is one of them okay let's pair has been a good name and in this sort of pistol for a long time and it back even in the late 80s when I started competing some you know and in early 90s you know people were talking about les baer and some people were shooting them early on and you know just loving them you know so now occasionally it's like with any even these or or the other big three you'll hear people who have had nightmares with them you know it's just this the way it is anything it's mechanical I'm sure but anyway you gotta les baer pistol of any kind chime in and let us know what you think I've never owned one I guess and I guess I don't own this one unless maybe I just decided to keep it okay we do need to a torture test with it probably I'm gonna drag it under the bush hog and that sort of thing before we return it but pretty nice pistol a custom 1911 that is really not on everybody's radar some people don't even like a 1911 much less paid twenty six hundred bucks for one right so but still I think if you're really a firearms person you just like firearms you find almost any firearm interesting you know even this should should be interesting I think on some level for you because again this is what a lot of money will buy you in a 1911 you know an ultimate kind of 1911 state of the art okay even if you have no interest in one there are things you can do there are places you can put money in a 1911 to make it about as good as the 1911 can be how's that for a political answer to it this is about as good as a 1911 can be that kind of first off the basis doesn't it but anyway unless beer and it's kind of neat to have one and shoot one I guess it's the first less beer I've ever fired and we've not had a malfunction with it surprise surprise life is good hey I hope you guys enjoyed that video I'm sure if you didn't we'll be hearing from you but while you're here I want to make sure you guys are aware of SDI the Sonoran Desert Institute they are a fully accredited online distance 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Channel: hickok45

Views: 376,667

Rating: 4.9313955 out of 5

Keywords: Les Baer, 1911, custom 1911, match barrel, tool steel, Bomar type sight, 9mm, single stack, Premier II, Baer Premier II

Id: 5dcdyLEQVvw

Length: 26min 19sec (1579 seconds)

Published: Fri Sep 22 2017