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Originally posted by jyl
Gratuitous pics of the Combat Master:







This 1911 has a 3 1/2" barrel and holds 6 in the magazine. It is not as dinky-small a gun as you might think - I can just about get all fingers on the grip, and I have average to largish hands. If I had someone relieve the underside of the trigger guard a little, it would be a full-fingered grip for me.

The "through the sights" picture is with the actual notched blade removed from the rear sight base, and just looking through the U-shaped sight base itself. The stock rear sight blade's notch is the same width (.39mm) as the front sight, which may be good for precision shooting but makes it slower to line up the sights. This isn't a precision shooting gun anyway. I'm going to try shooting with just the rear sight base, which is about 2X as wide as the front sight, and if I like it I'll leave it as is, or make a new blade with a wider notch.

The recoil on this gun must be pretty substantial, yes?