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Posted: 9/14/2023 11:16:50 AM EST
Flat or Arched mainspring housing? Which do you prefer and why?
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Posted: 9/14/2023 11:24:50 AM EST
[#1]
Flat. Arched sucks.
I shoot better with a flat MSH. However, I am a weirdo in that i like flat MSH 1911's but I like the OG beretta M9 vs the flat vertec style. |
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Posted: 9/14/2023 11:31:20 AM EST
[#2]
I prefer flat. To my hand size, arched might look better, but flat shoots better.
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KY, USA
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Posted: 9/14/2023 11:37:12 AM EST
[#3]
I mostly have arched, and like them. I do have one with an in between style Ed Brown mainspring housing, and I like it a bit better than arched. Sort of a compromise, but one that seems to work for me.
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Posted: 9/14/2023 11:40:55 AM EST
[#4]
Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By 50-140: I prefer flat. To my hand size, arched might look better, but flat shoots better. Learned to shoot my grandfather’s 1911 he brought back from the Big One in France as a wee lad in 1966. Firmly imprinted that a flat mainspring housing was the way that the prophet JMB designed the 1911. |
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Posted: 9/14/2023 12:12:45 PM EST
[#5]
Arched points more naturally for me.
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IA, USA
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Posted: 9/14/2023 1:28:57 PM EST
[#6]
Arched. All but one of mine are arched, and the one flat one is a WW1 clone.
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Posted: 9/14/2023 1:47:19 PM EST
[#7]
I don’t have a problem with arched, but I prefer flat.
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CO, USA
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Posted: 9/14/2023 1:59:29 PM EST
[#8]
Depends on trigger length. Short trigger then arched mainspring housing. Long trigger then flat mainspring housing.
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Posted: 9/14/2023 2:02:33 PM EST
[Last Edit: DocApocalypse]
[#9]
Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By AardvarkRatnik: Depends on trigger length. Short trigger then arched mainspring housing. Long trigger then flat mainspring housing. This is kind of where I'm at. My Springfield Mil-Spec has a short trigger and arched mainspring housing; my Garrison has a long trigger and a flat mainspring housing. It's six in one, half dozen the other which one I prefer, but I agree the two parts go together in combination. |
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Posted: 9/14/2023 2:03:39 PM EST
[#10]
Normally flat, but I want to find a nice arched MSH to swap onto my Colt "Classic."
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TX, USA
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Posted: 9/14/2023 2:28:15 PM EST
[#11]
Flat the way The Lord and John Moses Browining intended.
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Posted: 9/14/2023 2:43:05 PM EST
[#12]
Bought my first 1911 in 1978/79. 1917 made Colt US Army pistol.
Flat mainspring housing. Just never could get used to the arched mainspring housings after that. Replaced the arched mainspring housing on my Colt Combat Commander and Series 80 Government Model with flat mainspring housings as soon as I could. |
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GA, USA
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Posted: 9/14/2023 6:35:01 PM EST
[#13]
Makes absolutely no difference to me.
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WA, USA
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Posted: 9/14/2023 6:55:51 PM EST
[#14]
For my first 1911 I bought a Gold Cup, partly because I thought the flat msh looked sexy. After a while I discovered that it makes me hold low, and an arched msh fixes that, which is what it was designed to do. I still have some flat ones, but they are no longer on my pistols.
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Posted: 9/14/2023 6:58:50 PM EST
[#15]
I strongly prefer flat MSHs, arched sucks. The only I I have is because it’s an A1 clone.
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Posted: 9/14/2023 7:06:53 PM EST
[#16]
 angled |
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Posted: 9/15/2023 5:05:51 AM EST
[#17]
Bobbed.
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FL, USA
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Posted: 9/15/2023 7:49:49 AM EST
[#18]
I started shooing the practical pistol spots beginning with bowling pins in around 1982 with a flat mainspring 1911 in .45..... when the shooting sports progressed to USPSA and draws from a holster, I found that the arched MSH which gave me a slightly higher flash front sight picture that was easier for me to acquire, and stayed with an arched housing until I switched to the Glock platform in 2005... Les L747
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Posted: 9/15/2023 7:57:33 AM EST
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By poonstang90lx: Flat the way The Lord and John Moses Browining intended. Yup, I hate almost all the changes made to the A1's Why? Because the flat MSH feels better and points better for me but my favorite option is flat 1 piece MSH/Magwell combo with the rounded butt like the Chen SI model |
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Posted: 9/15/2023 1:41:14 PM EST
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Posted: 9/15/2023 9:56:43 PM EST
[#21]
I shoot mostly one handed....so flat for me. Arched will always looks best.....but flat is what I prefer to shoot.
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Posted: 9/18/2023 5:31:09 PM EST
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Quote HistoryQuote HistoryOriginally Posted By Strela: Originally Posted By DaddGoneMadd: Bobbed. /media/mediaFiles/sharedAlbum/confused-britney-spears--83.gif I wear XXXL gloves, and the square end of the flat mainspring housing stabs me in the heel of my palm. But I prefer the way it points. And bobbed doesn't print as much for me. |
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Posted: 9/18/2023 5:33:42 PM EST
[#23]
flat fits my hand way better.
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Posted: 9/18/2023 6:01:47 PM EST
[#24]
Flat and square butt k frames
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Posted: 9/20/2023 11:00:29 PM EST
[#25]
Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By DaddGoneMadd: I wear XXXL gloves, and the square end of the flat mainspring housing stabs me in the heel of my palm. But I prefer the way it points. And bobbed doesn't print as much for me. Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By DaddGoneMadd: Originally Posted By Strela: Originally Posted By DaddGoneMadd: Bobbed. /media/mediaFiles/sharedAlbum/confused-britney-spears--83.gif I wear XXXL gloves, and the square end of the flat mainspring housing stabs me in the heel of my palm. But I prefer the way it points. And bobbed doesn't print as much for me. Whatever works for you. For me it's strictly a looks thing. |
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Posted: 9/21/2023 5:32:16 PM EST
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Wombat:  Attached Filehttps://wilsoncombat.com/media/catalog/product/cache/38528a489a7fa3c4e20803155c31cc91/9/2/92bv_1.jpg angled Flat or Wedge/ Angled. |
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Posted: 9/21/2023 5:56:51 PM EST
[#27]
I voted Arched but prefer Bobbed
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Posted: 9/24/2023 10:51:05 AM EST
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By 03RN: Flat and square butt k frames |
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AZ, USA
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Posted: 9/25/2023 9:32:10 AM EST
[#29]
Arched, makes the pistol point better for me.
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Posted: 9/29/2023 10:05:55 PM EST
[#30]
Arched all the way. Feels better, points better and shoots better for me.
Not a hater of the flat MSH, but it’s just not for me. |
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