Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Handguns RIA to offer Titanium frame 1911, and .380 1911

I picked up a few Titanium frames and built several for carry when they were first available and some guys were excited.

After fitting the slide to the frame and lapping, I used Gunkote on both matched rails.

No wear or galling and the coating was still there as of last time I saw any them, but the frames and slides were a proper, ie., not a factory, fit, and I tell guys to run 'em wet, even though Gunkote has some lubricity.

I even gave those boys a free bottle of my "magic" sticky 1911 Stainless frame lube from the vat in my basement.

Hard Chrome would likely be better, but has dimensional issues on a real nice frame to slide fit, and as it was I figured saving those 5 ozs cost about $100 an oz.

That was great, but it is really much ado about nothing because MARSOC is considered the 8th "SF" Group by SOCOM. The fact remains, they are walking trails already blazed, and they had someone show them the path.

Personally my favorite video was the Firefighter Vs. Police one.
As far as Marsoc versus SF I don't care about that. To me it's .45 ACP versus 9mm type of argument.

Really? You're trying that one as a means of insulting the Marines? Not only is it old, but it's tired, put out to pasture, dead, and buried.

My Ti framed gun was built by Christensen (this is the correct spelling) & it does have WC coated rails on the frame as JOG has said.

When I received the gun, I wasn't as happy with the surface finish of the frame rails as I would have liked to have been, so I fixed that by polishing them to a level that made me smile.

So far with about 1,500 round through the gun it's absolutely perfect with no evidence of any issue on either the slide which is cerrokoted, or the frame rails.

But as with all my 1911's I run them pretty wet as all 1911's should be run, IMO.

i wasn't going to jump on RIA's but for the most part, you get what you pay for, if that satisfies you fine, but don't try to convince me the RIA is the equal of Colt, SA, S&W, etc. etc.

As for Safariman, the guy's s phugging narcissist, almost on a par with The Muslim & I won't even respond to his BS posts. He needs to sincerely GF himself.

MM

Christensen 1911

Damn, that's a sweet looking pistol.

VERY nice.

That MARSOC is/are the new kids on the block in SOCOM, is a point-of-fact, not open to debate. By all accounts they are doing a superb job at a lot of new (to the USMC) missions. I've heard Army guys say most are out-performing ODA's down range. No slight was stated or intended.

I hate when folks misspell names, doubly so when I do it. My apologies to Christensen Arms.

Great pistol - what's the barrel set-up?

Then why bring it up?

Also, it depends upon when the SOCOM clock started ticking. Roger's Rangers would historically be the first, if we really wanted to get down to brass tacks. After that, who counts and when? Where do the Marine Raiders fall in? There's no doubt they were SF, before SF existed.

All that "1st, next, last" BS is exactly that. Those that went first are long gone, and all others regardless of branch or division follow in their tracks.

Standard 1911........non-ramped barrel, with a very well fitted barrel bushing, both to the slide & the barrel, better than Wilson.

So far, functioning has been flawless & I have not touched it at all except as noted to polish the frame rails. Trigger is absolutely PURRRRRRRFECT, crisp, no creep & breaks at 3.25 lb consistently.

They provide 3 of their own (name stamped stainless) mags that are very, very nice & seem to perform just fine & the performance has been equally good with stainless Tripp's, too.

Best feel in the hand of any 1911 I've ever had.........partly due to the grips & the bobtail, but it's not quite as slick as a Wilson which feels like it's on ball bearings.

I was mildly disappointed in the finish on the frame rails as I am fairly expert (mild understatement) in various thermal spray materials applications, but it was easily remedied in about 10 minutes.

Except for the slight overprice, I'd very highly recommend it.

For real value, my Dan Wesson Guardian, & even the S&W bobtail are really better value for the $$$$$.

MM

4ager, when you talk about units and are ignorant of the applicable OB, you make that apparent to all. Be advised:

U.S. Department of Defense UW mission

UW was the first mission assigned to United States Army Special Forces when they were formed in 1952; they now have additional missions, including foreign internal defense (FID).[2] In the United States, "special forces" refers specifically to the United States Army Special Forces (SF), as opposed to the usage in most other countries, where "special forces" refers to the range of unit types that the U.S. calls "special operations forces" controlled by the United States Special Operations Command (USSOCOM). SF units are tasked with seven primary missions: :*unconventional warfare (United States Department of Defense doctrine) (UW)

foreign internal defense (FID)
special reconnaissance (SR)
direct action (DA)
counter-terrorism (CT)
counter-proliferation (CP)
psychological operations (United States) (PsyOps)
information operations (IO).

SF may be given other missions including warfare and support, combat search and rescue (CSAR), security assistance, peacekeeping, humanitarian assistance, humanitarian demining and counter-drug operations; other USSOCOM units or other U.S. government activities may be the specialists in these secondary areas[3]

The UW mission assumes that U.S. forces will work with troops in another country and possibly with other allies; UW is always multinational. Depending on the particular situation, their role may be from pure training all the way to leading a joint force in combat. Over more than fifty years, roles and missions have continued to evolve, based on the history of operations.


This is my last post on this thread. I only commented on a video some one else posted.

Dang MM, that is a very nice looking 1911.

How does it balance in the hand, both holding and shooting it?

Absolutely perfectly.......best ever in a 1911 & I have & have had a few, so no need to guess.

For the previous 3 years or so, my primary carry piece has been a S&W Scandium bobtail 1911 & it's an outstanding gun, but the Christensen just feels better in the hand.......mainly because of slightly slimmer & better feeling grips.

MM

Because when a [bleep] POS huckster like yourself claims to be a patriot, but you can't bother to make it to pro-gun/anti HB I-594 rallies in your own home state because you "didn't have the cash to attend", yet you're running WTB adds in the classifieds, you deserve to be called out. Same old song and dance; crying poverty in one breath when it's convenient and then building/buying something in the next.

And you're about as much of a patriot as the [bleep] idiot in the White House is and your knack for dishing out bullshitt is about the same too. Don't worry though, Squats to Pee has your back!

All the carbidized treatments I've seen, which is not a lot, look funky. Tough as nails though, actually, quite a bit tougher.

Wolverines!