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AR15.COM
11/3/2009 8:11:28 PM EDT
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11/3/2009 8:30:45 PM EDT
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Just reading a thread in GD about Ruger building a 1911.  Woo frakking hooo.   I'm a 1911 guy but geeze this is what, the 342,015th mfr making a 1911?

Build a frakking 5 shot .44 magnum or .45 Colt / 454/480 based on a GP100 size frame and you'll sell them by the boat load.  

I remember mentioning this to a Ruger Rep at the NRA meetings in Seattle in 1997 and he said he hears this all the time and it was soon forthcoming.    Here 12 years later all I hear about is a 1911.    Look, if I am in the market for another 1911 it will be a big name builder like Wilson, Baer, Brown, or a SA to send off to one of them.   I would however buy a medium framed 5 shot big frakkin nasty revolver from a quality mfr.   Build the farking thing already!!!!!   Be different from everybody else and build something we know you guys can do right the first time.




i doubt they will sell boat loads of the GP100 in the big bore calibers.  People were jumping to buy the S&W 500 and so and so. guess what, you sure do see alot of them FS used.

anyone that has shot one will know better then to want a SMALL gun in the same caliber.  also, i doubt the GP100 frame can handle the pressures of the big bore.  maybe a 45LC or 44Mag/SPC version, but i seriously doubt any 454/480

I for one would be interested to see what Ruger comes up with in the 1911 department.  I would hope that they would do some innovative thinking/design instead of regurgitating whats out there.  However, if they could make one in the <400 range or less, it would be interesting.