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Originally Posted by jyl
The double stack doesn’t make much difference, since the pistol butt isn’t in one’s pants.
While we’re at it, the world also needs a slimmer holster than the typical leather or Kydex holsters. They add an appreciable amount to the thickness of the package. Part of the problem is that pistols and holsters are not designed together. Some of the thickness of a holster is to securely retain the pistol, by the rather crude method of friction (leather) or clamping the trigger guard (Kydex). If the two were designed together, retention could be via an underbarrel lug, a magnetic catch, etc.
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Clearly you try to use a pistol for something it's not designed to do.
a 1911 is a service pistol to be holstered on the hip or under the armpit , or across the chest.
It's not a gun designed for CCW.
It will obviously be too heavy,
and it will print because of the big grip, especially double stack
Now a .45 ACP round, is also not designed for that purpose.
It's a big, fat round
and as a result it's heavy, with fat magazines, which, when double stacked will be even fatter.
Some 1911's have been made compact, but it will be a compromise because it needs a slide and the 45acp has a big diameter and so is the barrel and slide around it.
Some pistols have been designed for that purpose, but the look nothing like a 1911 and they have very little mag capacity and typically don't use 45acp to begin with because they want more boolits in the mag.
So what you need (and the world already has ) is a CCW design from the ground up, in 9mm, or if you really think you need more power, 10mm)
You are really not the first to come up with this question
There's plenty of choice already out there, many have answered that question because at least that one can be answered, it's not a conflict of requirements (.45 <>Concealed carry)