Hello all, here is today's article posted on TheArmoryLife.com. It is titled “The Carry Contour TRP: Less Grip to Print” and can be found at https://www.thearmorylife.com/carry-contour-trp-less-grip-to-print/.
The Carry Contour TRP: Less Grip to Print
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Grayfox
Professional
If you like it, more power to ya. But I've never cared for bobbing the 1911 grip. Just don't fit my hand.
For that matter, I don't like a flat MSH. The full grip frame with an arched MSH fits me perfectly. Unfortunately, it seems that most of the major 1911 manufacturers have gone almost completely with flat MSHs. So if I buy a new 1911, I have to spend extra money to swap it out for an arched one.
Ya hear that Springfield? I want my arched MSH back!
For that matter, I don't like a flat MSH. The full grip frame with an arched MSH fits me perfectly. Unfortunately, it seems that most of the major 1911 manufacturers have gone almost completely with flat MSHs. So if I buy a new 1911, I have to spend extra money to swap it out for an arched one.
Ya hear that Springfield? I want my arched MSH back!
Winchester67
Elite
Have to admit, I come down on the arched mainspring housing as well. They changed it back in the day for a reason. Whenever I let a newer shoot try my 1911 pattern sidearms, they always say "I really like the way this feels" then I point out the arched mainspring housing. So many newer shooters have only shot the flat mainspring, and it is a revelation when they shoot a proper arched housing.
Bob Chow Custom Combat Commander...back when customs still came with arched mainspring housings!
Bob Chow Custom Combat Commander...back when customs still came with arched mainspring housings!
Sld1959
Ronin
The flat housing might be considered proper in itself too, the 1911 was designed and adopted with the flat housing. It was afterwards that the arched mainspring housing was created and adopted in the 1911A1 in the twenties after WWI. The reason was i understand to help some shooters naturally raise the muzzle a bit more. A lot of people like it. A lot like the flat too lol.
I will admit to preferring the flat over the arched.
One might think manufacturers might find a way to include easily swappable arched and flat housings so we could choose.
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Winchester67
Elite
I grew up with a Colt Gold Cup that I bought when I turned 21. It had the flat mainspring housing, so that was what I was used to...but liked the arched when I tried it later. Easy enough to change out.
Sld1959
Ronin
They are not hard but I would think it would not break the bank to supply both styles matching the pistols finish.
Sld1959
Ronin
Yes, as have better sights, the original sights were pretty minimal affairs.
Does anyone know what brand of holster that is shown in the article. I’m having a hard time finding options for my TRP with the surefire.Hello all, here is today's article posted on TheArmoryLife.com. It is titled “The Carry Contour TRP: Less Grip to Print” and can be found at https://www.thearmorylife.com/carry-contour-trp-less-grip-to-print/.
HayesGreener
Ronin
Try Blackpoint Tactical they have accommodated all my pistols with lights
Thank you , I’ll check them out.
Winchester67
Elite
I frequently carry a 1911 pattern sidearm. I have Zero interest in light rails. Grew up with the Harries Technique and am too old to switch now. And I think it spoils the lines of a classic 1911, much like forward cocking serrations. I know some like them but I don't. But I do like the Ed Brown "Bobtail" conversion on a 1911. It makes it easier to hide with an inside the waistband holster, the only way I can hide anything. Mine is on a Sig 1911 chambered in .357 Sig.
I have been carring a 1911 since I got my concealed permit and even before I had a permit a 1911 was close by! Just not on me . I sometimes do carrya 9mm but mostly still prefer the 45's, I really don't know how many 1911's that I own! Guess I should do a head count but it doesn't matter cause I'm sure to find another that I'll assure the wife "just 1 more, I promise"
. I sometimes do carrya 9mm but mostly still prefer the 45's, I really don't know how many 1911's that I own! Guess I should do a head count but it doesn't matter cause I'm sure to find another that I'll assure the wife "just 1 more, I promise"
Mr. Untactical
Master Class
I haven't developed an affinity for the venerable 1911. Perhaps I will someday. One thing about the article that gets me as a writer: it presents the 1911 as a "duty grade" pistol, as if other, more concealable options are somehow not duty grade. Everyone on the 1911 team probably won't think twice about it, but for someone like me who has only conceal carried in the "polymer princess" era...?
Many decades ago I worked undercover drug law enforcement. Regrettably the organization I worked for did not provide firearms training or info on concealed carry. They must of figured I had training somewhere. I got a Colt Government Model, the “gun to carry.” Stuck it in my pants and covered it with a t-shirt. I was a skinny little guy so somehow I must of concealed it. No one ever mentioned it, good guy or bad guy and no one freaked out about it. I didn’t know if it was”printed “ because no one talked about it about it one way or another. As I learned more about guns I went to smaller.380s and later on 9 mm. How long ago, that .45 cost $75.00 new retail. Times have changed.
Phubar
Alpha
Ouch! I grew up with 1911's, never thought I would see the day for anything else. Now being of sound mind and medicare age I now have issues with friggin' arthritis in my hands...though a light frame revolver with light load .38 as a carry is much more tolerable for my aged hands... figure as long as I can still punch holes all will be well, hopefully, (by god I can still shoot my M1, but that thing bites as a carry weapon!!
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