this is the gray fox gunsmithing custom 1911. thanks for watching
hey everybody thanks for watching peace love and guns my name is will and today we're taking a look
at the gray fox gunsmithing custom 1911 this began life as a springfield armory 1911 a1 mil-spec as
the original host weapon it has had a whole slew of upgrades installed and custom fit polished
and uh installed to perfection if i don't say so myself the uh the slide first of all is fitted to
the frame um it is perfection it slides like glass it is very smooth um there's no jiggle to this
at all um it's pretty much all night hot custom parts on the inside that have been
ground and polished to fit and uh yeah let's just kind of give a run through we have
australian lace wood grips that were chosen by william braden of gray fox gunsmithing
it is a bobtail or fastback style of gun this was another modification done to the middle spec by
william britton of gray fox gunsmithing wherein you
grind off the excess material there and obviously with the grips as well and then
polish smooth and re-coat this thing has been cerakoted this kind of nice flat black and as well
as the slide the sides were then honed or polished so that they are gives it this nice kind of almost
high polish stainless finish it is kind of akin to what you see on like the sig eclipse pistols
that's exactly what i stole it from because my 226 my 229 that i carry is an eclipse yeah
it's a real handsome look um everything about it feels really good um the trigger pull is uh
probably if i had to estimate a real nice crisp uh two and a half or three pounds um i don't
know have you ever measured it probably probably baby kinda sorta um it's a real good trigger pull
i mean there's just there is no take up i mean it's right there
you you barely feel the trigger move at all you can just see that little bit of movement
and it's right there on the wall it's not too light i don't like a super light trigger
but you can watch my fingertip kind of go from like pink to like uh white as i push
so you push straight back there's your take up and then click reset that and show you again
and it feels really good the pistol is outfitted with suppressor height uh hiney straight eight dot
sights so that is the sight picture where you have a single dot in the front on top and a single dot
in the rear on the bottom uh they're a real nice quick acquisition sight you've also got the very
nice cut right there where you can wreck it on the boot if you need to in the event that you're
operating and you need to get at that gun and your hands been shot off you can get it and get back on
target with your remaining you know however many uh rounds you had because you only started with
eight if for whatever reason you're carrying a 1911 for some reason in the line of duty
or concealed carry but you've got that capability if you like it they are a novak profile dovetail
that these were custom ground and uh fitted for this frame so since this was originally a mil spec
it had the standard pin a little dinky front sight up there and both the front and rear sight
the dovetails were milled in so that the novak style of sights could fit course you got your
skeletonized hammer and trigger everything feels good you don't have too much pressure required
on the grip safety to actuate that just by the nature of holding on to it it actually it's
that grip safety the bob tail feels really nice um i used to not be so excited about bob tails
but they're just so much nicer i carried a 1911 for probably the better part of three and a half
four years and the bobtail makes a huge difference and especially if you're going to be carrying
this on your person small the back even appendix carry or like a four or five o'clock uh position
it's less to dig into you and if you can see on my dirty hands here
if it was straight it would come back and there would be a little bit of a corner right there
it's just a little bit nicer of a grip this is of course a full-length guide rod
as well as a threaded barrel to accommodate your suppressor needs with that naturally subsonic
45 caliber payload very nice there got a nice knurled stainless steel thread protector on it
the match up fit and finish on the barrel to the barrel bushing and the locking lugs on the barrel
is very nice there is no play back and forth on the slide you cannot feel any jiggle
there's no you can't push down on the slide to the frame and feel any
weeble wobble in there the gun doesn't jiggle at all when you when you try and shake it
other than that i mean uh it's just a very nice gun it feels very good and if you want something
that's uh built for you custom i highly encourage you to do that um don't exactly uh recommend
1911's for your personal home defense needs but you know they work in a pinch i don't recommend
1911's in general but if you want one i'll customize it heck yeah and uh i mean there's just
there's nothing like the feel of a 1911. it has a sexiness about it there's kind of it has this aura
it's very much the american custom handgun it's still uh very popular in competition circles
and there's even a lot of people in uh industries that carry guns that will sometimes choose to
carry the venerable 1911. personally i think there are better options out there for you but
if you carry a 1911 it's much better than not carrying a gun but yeah i digress uh
it's a 1911 and they're sick speaking of 1911 it shoots 45 acp the venerable 45 acp cartridge
this here is a wilson combat magazine it's currently got a chip mccormick power mag in it
both of which work very nicely in it we're just going to gas this thing up we're going to run
some hornady tap ammunition because as we all know the edit 11 was originally designed for ball ammo
and it's always going to behoove you to in your defensive pistol test out the ammo that
you're going to be shooting it defensively and that goes doubly so for a 1911. so that's their
critical duty ammo by the way oh my bad but yeah let's go ahead and give it a a couple pew pews
it's got a gunfighter safety on it so you know with the battery of arms of the 1911 we always
recommend that you're going to carry with one in the pipe if you're going to carry a 1911.
carry one in the pipe you've got the hammer back and when you come up on target you are sweeping
the safety down and you're ready to go at that point
since this is a gunfighter safety you are going to sweep it down and keep your finger on top
keep your thumb on top of that safety and just write it like that and pew pew to your
heart's content so here we go we're just going to put a couple shots on steel and uh go for it
consensus is 1911 get used to doing that because it's a 1911.
it probably hasn't had oil in like two years yeah i mean there is that
um yeah so it is it is relatively dry but um yeah that is the
gray fox gunsmithing custom 1911 and yeah if you want something like this william britain has
quality custom work that you would be looking to have for something in as nice of a piece
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