If you are a 1911 gunner, you already own the one to which you trust your life. You probably own a few more, scattered around the house, shed, in vehicles, in case you ever need one in an unexpected place.
So here is a brutal business question: What will motivate you to add a III to your hip or home?
Before you can answer that, you'll need a few details: The III 1911s being built would retail from any custom shop for $2,500 - $3,000. Those are not my numbers pulled out of my arse, those are the numbers given to me by the master gunsmiths who are building our prototypes. We are not building Rock River or even modest SAs.
We designed a 1911 specifically for carrying out the front door with full knowledge you may have to defend your life.
Features: Low profile 3 dot sights, lowered and flared ejection port, ambi & extended safety, beavertail, bobbed hammer, beveled mag well. The pistols are specifically designed to go bang every f'n time you pull the trigger, no matter what. And I am told it will be the rare hundgunner who can out-shoot these pistols in terms of accuracy.
Price: Don't know yet, but they'll be well under $2k. The first guns will be more expensive than later guns(NOT more than $2K!!!), and the prices will come down as we move more and more operations in-house under our own roof. But for the sake of discussion, forget price - it should be the last consideration when deciding which pistol you will reach for every single time your life is in danger.
So, please be brutally honest: For what will you be looking before you add a III 1911 to your home, or your hip?
Kerodin
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