Posted: 11/7/2007 12:18:41 PM EDT
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Anyone have experience with the Les Baer pistols. Thunder ranch or other models. I am thinking of selling my US&S GI 1911. I know. It is a great pistol in great shape, but I have no personal attachment to it (was not used by family member etc.). Although as an investment it is probably a good idea to hold onto it........What to do??.....I would like to get 2 very nice 1911's out of the deal. May be impossible but that is the idea anyhow. Any thoughts??  |
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I have a Premier II that I've owned for about 10 years now. Its just a range queen in that I don't carry it and its not used for a house or truck gun. It just goes to the range on occasion for shooting at targets so its not used very hard. Even though its used lightly I'm satisfied with it but I don't think that Les Baer has as good a customer service as some of the other semi-custom makers such as Wilson or Nighthawk. That might be something to consider depending on what your ultimate use of the gun is. The fit and finish is excellant and the gun is still tight and very accurate. |
As long as you know going in the Baer guns are built on the tight side you should be very happy with one. Most of the tightness comes from the barrel to bushing fit instead of the slide to frame fit as most people think. When you're holding a Baer it feels like one solid piece of steel. They are very accurate and reliable. Some people have had not so great experiences with Baer customer service but the couple times I've called they seemed friendly and willing to help.
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I own four Baer pistols. Two TRS's an SRP and a Concept 9. They have all been excellent from day one. The SRP has in excess of 35,000 rounds-documented- on it and the only thing I have ever done is replace recoil springs and eventually when the finish got so pitiful that I was embarrassed by it I had Virgil Trip hardchrome it, problem solved. Some day I may have to think about a new barrel for it and in fact I have already purchased a Nowlin to replace the original with. The gun has been worth every cent I spent on it. The Nighthawks and Rock Rivers may be the new kids in town but for the dollar in a semi custom pistol, nobody beats Les Baer. |
I've shot them & the owner had to wrestle me to get his gun back................  Les Baer will be THE first gun *I* buy when I hit the Powerball!!!!!!  Someone can confirm/deny this, but I think Baer is the only mfgr whom will GUARANTEE a specific level of accuracy with their guns, regardless of ammo?????? |
I can't imagine anyone would be foolish enough to make that guarantee, simply because of the wide variation possible in ammo. It's something I've certainly never heard. Wilson, RRA, Strayer/Voigt offer accuracy guarantees, among others. |
for selling a USGI 1911A1
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TRS owner here. It's my second Baer (shouldn't have sold the first) and it's a tack driver. I bought it used and still broke a (plastic) bushing wrench taking it down!  My advise is to get the no-mar aluminum bushing wrench from Brownells. Get one & shoot the piss out of it, you won't be disappointed. |
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I got my TRS "pre-owned" and it is the finest 1911 I've had the pleasure to hold. This might sound silly, but I really like blued steel versus this trend toward coated guns. The TRS is blued. Most of what I consider its competition isn't. Heed the advice of the above post about the bushing wrench. My plastic one is about trashed.
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I would think it wouldn't be all that hard to use a little lapping compound in the right places to loosen the parts up a bit. I thought about doing this to the bushing to slide fit on my TRS but it too seems easier to manipulate the more I shoot it. |