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I picked up my first ever Colt Commander!

I like my Para P-12 .45 ACP for my conceal and carry but I'm going to replace it with my FIRST (to me) Colt Commander M1911 (NIB) Model 04691. Blue finish, paid under $700 for it. This will also keep my temptation of taking my 1911 Colt (made in 1916) out to the range.


Can't wait for it to arrive! I wanted to buy a Colt 1911 WMKXxx 1911 reproduction but my employer might be moving my job and if they do, I'm retiring so I had to prioritize what I wanted to own vs. what I wanted to shoot!
 

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You guys might laugh at this, but I fell in love with the 1911 when I was 4 or 5 years old; my nephew ( 1 year younger than I, long story ) had a dart gun fashioned after the 1911 in bright nickel plate. I wanted it so bad I finally traded him my water rocket and 2 packs of chewing gum. I think that the little so and so stole it back, as it disappeared magically one day. I miss it!
 
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I always loved the platform and when I went in the service in 76, they issued my mos (tank mechanic) M16s and all the tankers got 1911s. Needless to say, whenever I could I went to the range with anyone that had a 1911 and shot the daylights out of them...been hooked ever since.
 
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The first pistol I ever fired was my grandad's 1911, The slide just about broke my thumb because I had no idea how the action worked and my thumb was sticking up a little too high.

Grampa kept asking me if I was sure I wanted to hold it like that and he had a wicked sense of humor so he never told me why I didn't want to hold it like that, I though he was going to die laughing after I shot it.

After my thumb quit hurting I emptied the mag and begged for more ammo but that was all he had with him that day so I had to settle for .38 special out of his S&W, he had several hundred rounds for it.

I sure do miss that man. I've wanted a 1911 ever since but somehow I've never ended up with one of them, at least not yet, but I will.

Nice commander Mak, keep yer thumb low though, them slides will bite ya. ;)
 
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Picked him up today! Side by side his Grandfather (1916-made) and new Pachmayr grips (I use this type of grip on two other 1911 frames and they work for me)
 

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Luthais, if you only knew how much I hate horses, living breathing types..(Long story short, breaking in horses on our farm in the late 60's, early 70's, being bit on the thigh while tighting the cinch, kicked in the balls without warning and bucked into barbed wire at a young age) LOL!
When I moved to WA state in 1979, urban cowboy hats were beginning to get popular. There were a few city slickers I felt like walking up to and screaming "DID YOU EARN THAT FOCKING COWBOY HAT!>!"

I intended to put 100 rds through it on Sat last week-end but ended up putting 200 through it. Beautiful weapon, slightly longer than my Para Ord P12 (previous C&C) but it rides nice on my hip. I am definitely loving it.
 
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'Bout died laffin' at that "did you earn that hat line", we had a few of them types around town back in the day, cowboy hats, snakeskin boots and BIG belt buckles, none of them had ever seen a horse let alone ridden one. ;)

Sounds like you had a good time breaking that new pistol in.
 
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I grew up on a horse ranch. Been bit, kicked, stepped on, chased through the pasture, thrown, sat on, scraped off under trees, stomped and $h!t at....... Rodeoed some, roped a lot, headed and heeled. Still wear western boots, never wore a cowboy hat or big buckle in my life. Baseball caps....
 
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JW, rodeo is something I never did, nor cared to. I'd forgotten about the 'chased" and stomped part! I learned at a young age how to despise an animal like a horse but I respect them, and they learned to respect me once I got over my fear of something 5-7 times my weight. :) I've never owned a cowboy hat either. The Aussie cap in my avatar doesn't count, picked that up in Hawaii a few years ago. :)

We had a hired hand on our horse farm by the name of Warner. Big German fellow from New Jersey (of all places) that I witnessed him taking a horse down onto it's back when it bit Warner whiling cinching a saddle. Warner walked up to the front of the horse, placed one arm around the back of it's head, took the other hand and placed it on the side of the jaw and WRENCHED as hard as he could. The head moved 45 degrees and you know a horse's neck follows it's head. BAM! on it's back, stuttering, kicking....Warner let go once the horse was down.

That horse never bit anyone again when cinching a saddle to her business end. :)
 
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My Dad was 5'9'' and weighed about 150 and I've seen him ear down so many rank horses I can't even count. They just knew he was tougher than them....

I used to keep an old sawed off maul handle with me. They understand a sharp rap across the nose.....
 
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There was a lot of good stuff. I used to walk about a mile and a half home from school. The house sat up on a big hill, the horses and my dog would be waiting for me at the gate at the bottom of the hill, I'd pick a horse and ride bareback up to the barn and corral at the top every day.

I hated shoveling manure and picking hooves, but it was a good way to grow up for sure.
 
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