S&W 1911?

yep on the 1911

In my last American Rifleman quote from S&W
" Smith and Wesson will be developing a 1911 ( style handgun ). It will be stainless steel, standard 5" (gun). It's a 1911 all the way, with 1911 parts. The only difference will be that it will have a external extractor, which is a vast inprovment over the original. The 1911 is just one of the new things that we are going to have at the 2003 Sho Show ".

Gotta get me one of those. Thanks for the info.

S&W 1911

There is a nice picture of it on the Smith & Wesson web site! Go to firearms then look in "what's new". If the price is right, I'm gonna get me one and drop the Springfield Armory pistol I have. :-D

S&W 1911 prices

I don't remember exactly, but the suggested retail price is in the $900.00 range. I found a company (SportingArms.com) that quoted a price of somewhere around $670.00. +$14.00 shipping. I now KNOW what my next gun purchase will be! :-D

S&W 1911

:grin:I like my Springfield V-10. I just put a Novak rear sight on it. I haven't found any ammo that it doesn't like. But this Smith has wetted my appitite. I cannot find anyone who has one. All of the suppliers tell me the next ones the get are spoken for. I had the same problem with Ruger's Gold Lable. I finally canceled my order and bought an Italian smoke pole.
There are a lot of 1911's out there that are quality built. I hope I can wait long enough for a Smith.

S&W 1911

Hay Grumpy: I saw some pictures of those new Smiths in one of my gun magazines that came in the mail yesterday and whoooeee, ain't she a purdy one. Dang me if it doesn't look just like an older Model 39, and I sure did like those. I may have to get one. Mikey.

I've handled but not shot one! The slides are essentially the same as the D-W, but have the scalloped serrations on slide ala -945, and have pinned external extractor as D-W. They have the Briley bushing system instead of the NM configuration of D-W.
Also, the frame is not exactly 1911, (no seperate mainspring housing ala. 945, but takes 1911 mag release and magazines.
Fit and finish, were typical S&W Perf. Ctr. and accuracy should be same.. My two, soon to be three Perf Ctr. 9mm guns shoot ~1.0"@25yds, came with targets shot by Tom Gordon to back it up. My experience affirms too.
There will probably be a 6-8mo. wait for the guns. I was told to expect a 8-9mo wait on a 6" PPC-9 I ordered in October, by Beth Myette of S&W Perf. Ctr.

Put my hands on one. The dealer had three with about a $200 markup. The checkbook had to be restrained. It almost wrote the check by itself. It also was under the watchful eye of the little lady. HMMMMM...

There was a nice little write up on the S&W 1911 in the March issue of "shooting Times".

From looking at it I have to say that "I WANT ONE!!!".

Sincere Flattery!

Sincere Flattery, But there is only one True 1911!
The rest are just imitations!

(My imitation is a Springfied Armory though!
But I really wish I still had my Old Colt!)