Posted: 2/11/2009 7:56:11 AM EDT
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Been looking thru the production numbers just out from ATF. Pulling out 1911 production totals probably can't be done, but I thought listing some of the big names might be interesting.
Nighthawk Custom 1167 Wilsons 1895 Colt 14546 US Firearms 450 Les Baer 1936 Rock River 231 Springfield 9655 Ed Brown 1065 Kimber 52763 STI 5419 Strayer Voight 1407 Caspian 1466 Olympic 293 Kahr/Auto Ordnance 11479 CZ/Dan Wesson 2374 Obviously this doesn't include places that rebuild existing pistols. Numbers for Smith, SIG and some of the others are buried to deep for me to dig out. It's possible some of these number include things other than 1911's, ATF sorts the numbers just by caliber. This does not include imports, ie no Armscor, Taurus, etal. Most of the high end builders are pretty small, only 2000 units a year or less.. |
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Quoted: Quoted: 52K + Kimbers . . . wow, is that correct? I knew they were popular, but not THAT popular That was my first thought. Figured springfield would be closer to them in numbers. I believe those are the made in USA numbers, excluding the Brazilian made imports. |
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52K + Kimbers . . . wow, is that correct? I knew they were popular, but not THAT popular That was my first thought. Figured springfield would be closer to them in numbers. Springfield numbers would not include the Brazilian imports; ie no Mil Specs, GI's and such. So their true number sold is undoubtedly much higher. Haven't found any firearms import numbers as yet. |
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52K + Kimbers . . . wow, is that correct? I knew they were popular, but not THAT popular And if you believe the internet, that's a whole lot of shitty, unreliable guns they keep cranking out and selling... Probably does explain why there are a lot of "crappy" Kimbers.. 5-10% bad apples of 52,000 is a lot more internet board complaining than 5-10% (or less in Springfield's case  ) of 10,000+ by Springfield. But of course there is also "people don't know any better"
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