A Basic Introduction To Colt 1911 Customization

By Phyllis Schroeder


Your gun has a personality or style. If your gun does not have the right one, you can have it customized. All you need is having a clear recollection of what you need it to feel like. Numerous professionals exist specializing in colt 1911 customization. These professionals will work on your gun if the changes will be safe and feasible.

General changes to weaponry centre on obtaining better targeting, carrying, plinking, personal defence, war, adoration, collection or simply presentation. Customizing three basic tenets. Reliability, accuracy and beautification. The top-notch gunsmiths aim for balancing perfectly these three. Where your gun use features function is much more important than form, otherwise its form turns out to be useless.

The United States Army and Air Force were the first institutions to commission modification of the colt 1911. The objective was better performance for their teams in competitions. All other workings stem from these initial attempts at making it extra accurate and reliable. This rests on two prongs. First is making the firearm accurate and second making it shooter friendly. An accurate firearm that is hard for the shooter to operate will not meet its potential while in that shooter hands. Customizing needs to address such a problem.

The activity is two pronged. First is making a firearm accurate while making it friendly in the hands of a shooter comes second. If an accurate gun is hard for its shooter to make a shot with then it will not give peak performance for such a shooter. Addressing this kind of problem is what customization is about. Guns are required to have sights that allow good and repeatable picture sights. The trigger pull has to be light. The reason is that heavy trigger pull moves sight jumps from targets on squeezing of the trigger. The firearms ergonomics must not be painful or increase shooter fatigue with consequential shooting.

Addition of accessories appearing on various media and magazines is usually feasible within the process of customization. Two categories feature here. It is either integrated to the firearm or an extension. Examples include rubber grips added on and gun stippling or checkering. A challenge to this is that an accentuated grip may impede shooting for small-handed shooters.

Getting mechanical accuracy is a much easier concept for the gunsmiths. With the sole objective of making a gun function properly, a gunsmith has to make the firearm make a shot from the same place mechanically each time the shooter squeezes the trigger. If the barrel is undamaged, attaining accuracy becomes the least complicated area here. In time, high quality sights have evolved; better triggers have come up as well as superior lock up barrel systems. Most of these have trickled down to the current carry guns, which are versions of the customized full size 1911.

Being accurate literally means doing the same thing each time. Making your weapon accurate therefore means it will do this, which leaves any anomaly in your hands as the weapon operator. With this achievement, the process moves from the weapon to you in perfecting the art of hitting your intended target.

There have been drastic changes within this field of the industry based on evolution but not revolution. There are better electronics, optics, finishes, new CNC machines and alloys, which have all brought changes into operations. One of the most popular area in restyling is finishing. Digitised colours and finishes like the Desert Sand Camouflage gives blending into an environment characteristic to a weapon. The United States Military do, however maintain a lead in weapon customization. Survival in combat situations demands that they do so.




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