Any of the quality manufactures make a good threaded 1911A1? I can find no-name brands making them but I'm looking for a high end reliable threaded 1911A1.
My philosophy is it's better to have nothing in the bank and the best weapon money can buy than $100,000 and be dead because your cheap weapon had a malfunction when you needed it.
I've been looking at and researching suppressing a 45. It seems that the 1911A1 with it's tilting barrel has wear issues with a can, requires a bit more work to operate and almost all threaded barrels are after market so that you're probably going to pay extra big for quality.
But I love 1911s! They fit my hand so well, are perfectly slim and parts and work on them is so easy to find.
Sigh,
Unless it's a labor of love, which by all means if you chose to live passionately, for the cost, time and effort I've decided to go with the Sig P220 (good track record and have factory threaded barrels as an option).
If someone has some experiences or expert knowledge please take a moment and share.
As you've found, the 1911 is a comparatively troublesome platform to suppress, and when suppressed typically performs 2-3 dB worse than other platforms using the same suppressor.
The P220 and P226 are very good platforms to suppress. I haven't seen a host semi-auto handgun which resists suppressor related stresses better. Some of the testing floating around also describes the P226 on average 2 dB quieter than the M9; I'm unsure if that translates over to the 220 though.
I have a P226 / Trident. The pair performs flawlessly, though I'm looking at the new Ti-Rant.
I'm not sure what I was thinking but I was reminded the 220 is tilt barrel too. They'll both ware with cans on them. Still going with the Sig since the data is pointing to it suppressing better.
I'm not sure what I was thinking but I was reminded the 220 is tilt barrel too. They'll both ware with cans on them. Still going with the Sig since the data is pointing to it suppressing better.
Most of the P220/226s resilience against suppressor wear comes from their rail length. It will be around the 15k round mark for suppressed v. unsuppressed wear to be visually distinguishable at all, even with a large suppressor.
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