Happiness is a new gun 2

Thanks for the tip! Ironically I did use a hairdryer to dry them after waiting the minute called for and then rinsing them with cold water. Perhaps it helped with the process anyway?

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Originally Posted by dao

Thanks for the tip! Ironically I did use a hairdryer to dry them after waiting the minute called for and then rinsing them with cold water. Perhaps it helped with the process anyway?

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A hair dryer? No wonder it looks so luxurious! 😂

I generally don't help it dry, sometimes I don't let it dry but keep it wet and then just rinse. Think it helps to keep from going dull but I got nothing solid to back that up with. Whatever you did worked great, that's all that matters.

So....just curious, has anyone ever seen a Kahr, T or K model with a checkered front strap? I have not. I have skate board tap on all of mine. Which works pretty good.
Is it a price thing? Such as high end holsters are usually made for high end 1911's. Would anyone spend the change, to get a K model checkered? I know with the holsters, you bought a $300 firearm, odds are you are not going to spend $150 on a holster.
Have no idea how much checkering cost, but assume it is considerable, with all the labor involved. So you get a 4-600 dollar K model, going to spend 150-300 for checkering?

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Originally Posted by kenemoore

I have always been a solid trigger fan.
The typical trigger pull on a 1911 is almost always decent, even the budget ones. Why would you need to lighten the weight of the trigger?
Part of the tactical-cool crowd?
I was/am afraid something would hang up in the holes. But the pull is so short, not likely.

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Not sure why lighter may be better. However Sig's fix for accidental discharges on P320 was to install LIGHTER trigger.

Or you could buy a $50 file and do it yourself. It's really not hard to do. I thought I had seen a K here on this site that someone had checkered Ken. Won't swear to it though.

I almost forgot I do have a M1991A1 that I could checker. But I'm not sure how the bluing would work on a frame that I believe has been parkerized by Colt when it was made. Thoughts on that?

The idea of a lighter trigger jeep is that it carries less inertia if dropped. More weight/mass requires more energy to be dissipated before it will stop it's motion. Though I'm not sure that lightening the trigger was the entire fix of the Sig issues.

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Originally Posted by kenemoore

So....just curious, has anyone ever seen a Kahr, T or K model with a checkered front strap? I have not. I have skate board tap on all of mine. Which works pretty good.
Is it a price thing? Such as high end holsters are usually made for high end 1911's. Would anyone spend the change, to get a K model checkered? I know with the holsters, you bought a $300 firearm, odds are you are not going to spend $150 on a holster.
Have no idea how much checkering cost, but assume it is considerable, with all the labor involved. So you get a 4-600 dollar K model, going to spend 150-300 for checkering?

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I saw some models with checkering on the Kahr website. Sounds like a relatively new thing. I too have the soft rubbery type skateboard tape on all my guns that don't have checkering which is most of em.


https://www.kahr.com/k-series-and-mk...ries-handguns/

All this 1911 talk made me feel nostalgic.
There has been a hole in my safe since gifting the last two 1911s to my sons several years ago, so I just ordered this budget package this morning….

https://palmettostatearmory.com/spri...9108l-pkg.html

That's a durn nice package and seems like a great price too. I like it.

I'm still waiting on the adoption process so I can call you daddy. I'm patient.

Beautiful AB. One of the things I like about these new Springfields is the old school slide serrations. Exactly how they should be.