Comments on: Yes, Honey, I Need Another Pistol… (A .22 LR 1911)

By: Chris

Chris — Sun, 22 Mar 2015 15:22:44 +0000

I’ve gone a different route by bypassing .22 rimfire and going with BBs. As a companion to my Remington 1911 I have a Remington RAC 1911 pistol which you can get for $90. The magazine holds one 12gram CO2 cartridge and 18 BBs, and I get around 60 shots before it starts to drop velocity.

The slide blows back which uses more propellant but adds to the realism. At short ranges these are a blast, and I was just using mine yesterday in my garage. All you need is a good trap that won’t let the steel BBs ricochet, and good eye protection just in case.

There are replicas of many models of pistols, and they can be a great way to get in cheap trigger time no matter what the weather. Just a suggestion.

By: Mike Gifford

Mike Gifford — Sun, 22 Mar 2015 00:34:06 +0000

My route was a little different than Richard’s. Several years ago, when they first came out, I tried to procure one of these, but neither my dealer or his distributors could get a straight answer out of Kimber – it was like they didn’t care if they sold any or not. I finally gave up and got the match conversion kit from Midway and put it on a Series 70 1911 I had sitting around. No complaints about the results, but I hope Kimber is more interested in selling them this time around than they used to be.

By: Richard

Richard — Sat, 21 Mar 2015 19:50:02 +0000

I went down this route to improve my 9mm shooting. The key lessons I took away from a couple years of frustration were:

a. need to find the ammo that works in the pistol (sometimes harder than you think);

b. if you want to improve our 9mm shooting – shoot 9mm! (I found going back to the 22lr after a good round of centerfire saw more improvement than the other way around).