Tuesday, July 21, 2015

A Basic Introduction To Colt 1911 Customization

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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 Air Force and Army were the original institutions who commissioned modifications on the 1911 colt. Their objective was attaining better performance in competitions for their respective teams. Every other development stems from this first attempt at attaining extra reliability and accuracy.

This activity has two prongs. One is making the weapon accurate and two is making user friendly. Should the weapon be accurate but is hard to operate, it will not perform optimally. Figuring out this challenge constitutes the speciality of customization. A firearm is required to possess sights allowing repeatable and good sight pictures. Pulling the trigger needs to be light work. Should the trigger pull be heavy, move sights will jump away from targets on trigger squeezing. The weapons ergonomics must not cause pain and neither should it increase fatigue with each 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.

Attaining mechanical accuracy falls into a much simpler concept. With the objective of allowing a firearm to function properly, the gunsmith needs to make the firearm shoot from the same spot mechanically whenever a shooter squeezes a trigger. Should the barrel remain undamaged this forms the least complicated area of attaining accuracy. Over time superior sights have evolved, better triggers made and so have superior barrel systems of lock up. Much of these have drizzled right down to today carry guns as versions of a customized 1911 full size.

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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