Weight is a problem while carrying a handgun. Weight is a blessing when it comes to recoil. I'm striving for the best of both worlds.Love the 1911 but just too heavy for EDC. Once carried one in a Jackass rig with two spare mags for off duty. My shoulders and back were really hurting by the end of the day. Much easier to carry my Glock 30 and with Glock 21 mag gives me 13 rounds instead of 7, 8 or 10. Glock 29 with 15 round mag might be something to look at. Just my 2 cents.
Being a former US Army Military Intelligence Officer, I'll be looking into the 10mm's application as a personal defense weapon cartridge for both carbines and handguns. Current PDW cartridges do well against body armor. But not so well when the threat isn't wearing body armor. They have a tendency to zip right though without transferring much energy to the threat. So my new handgun in 10mm should handle both situations. On the civilian side, those higher pressure cartridges, like the 10mm, do offer much better ballistic performance, externally and terminally.
Thanks!
There's still a lot of $3500-$5000
Thanks! One observation - we're still throwing rocks, just a bit faster. Ha! Ha!
IF, it hits the market, I will look at it, like every other contender I have seen in the past 50 years. IF, I find it an improvement, at a reasonable price I will buy it.
Word of gospel right there
Your opening sentence threw all cred out the window.
Having said all that, you will not be surpassing a 1911 per se, you will be developing a whole new firearm.
The major thing that keeps me coming back to the 1911 as my primary carry gun is the ergonomics of it. It fits my hand better than any other pistol I've used. The thumb safety is perfectly under my thumb, I can reach the magazine release with a slight twist, slide in a fresh magazine and my thumb naturally comes to rest on the slide stop to release it. I can lower the hammer with one hand with no issues. When I look at a distant object and close my eyes and bring the gun up and open my eyes again the sights are where I expect them to be.
For me, the "sweet spot" is in the 24-28 ounce range. This is where the Colt LW Commander lives, as well as their new 3" King Cobra (which might be the most perfect carry revolver ever produced--the modern incarnation of Chic Gaylord's "Metropolitan Special").
Meh. Talk is cheap, and there's a huge pile of vaporware out there already.
The Seven Basic Machines upon which Western Civilization Is Based:
The wheel.
The wedge.
The lever.
The inclined plane.
The pulley.
The small-block Chevy.
The Colt Government Model M1911.
Here endeth the lesson.
When Browning created his masterpiece, blowback operating systems ruled the roost in the semi-auto world. The blowback handguns could handle the weaker cartridges of the day. But more powerful cartridges were being developed, especially for military use. Browning's 1911 was designed to handle a powerful cartridge the US military wanted. The .45acp. A blowback couldn't handle such a cartridge so the recoil operating system was born. Of course, other systems were trying to tame those powerful cartridges too. The German Luger comes to mind with the 9mm Parabellum. Cartridge development was driving the firearms industry to move beyond blowback operating systems. I believe we are seeing a similar thing today. Today's higher pressure cartridges I've mentioned, will need a new operating system to realize their benefit completely.
Well if you remember. All of Browning's designs originated first in his mind. I imagine most every inventor uses the same process. I've built my new handgun millions of times in my mind.