Post by hacker54 on Feb 24, 2016 18:09:51 GMT -5
Well I thought I would put this out there for thought. As we look around at firearms today at least for me I see an ever increase use of polymers (plastics) in the industry. Plastics goes way back to when they started putting plastic grips on handguns. We can go to the 60's and the Vietnam War and the M-16 with it's buttstock and forend being of a plastic material. Remember Remington's Nylon 66 22lr rifles which also had nylon roller bearings in the action and the XP-100 bolt action handgun in 221 Fireball with it's Zytle stock. We can choose many options in synthetic stocks for our rifles. Remember when people would say a plastic gun is a toy but then in 1981 Glock started making their polymer from semiauto handguns for the military and around 1985-86 these handguns found their way into the USA market. Since the Glock has gained such favor here in the USA that Smith& Wesson and others had to put up their own polymer frame semi handguns or loose their share of the market.
Now comes the year 2009 and Ruger introduce a polymer frame revolver. Even I was wondering if someone would come up with one and of course others followed like S&W and Taurus to have a share in the market. I did a thread awhile back on up grading two of my handguns because of their polymer parts. My S&W Sigma has a polymer spring guide rod that can bend to a state where it can hinder the guns performance and my 1911 has a polymer mainspring housing. Both items I wish to replace with metal ones. For as the mainspring housing being of polymer I found that quite a few of the manufactures out there have polymer mainspring housings on their 1911's.
Since I have a 1911 with a polymer mainspring housing I was wondering again would someone come up with a polymer frame 1911? I just got the answer to my thoughts. Yes they do the EAA Witness 1911 Polymer. You can go to eaacorp.com/ to check out that 1911. I can just see 30+ years in the future and people seeing an all metal handgun and saying boy people way back then were really strong to carry that much weight in a holster all day. I guess polymers are here to stay but I don't see that all metal handgun going away anytime soon. OK guys your thoughts now.
Now comes the year 2009 and Ruger introduce a polymer frame revolver. Even I was wondering if someone would come up with one and of course others followed like S&W and Taurus to have a share in the market. I did a thread awhile back on up grading two of my handguns because of their polymer parts. My S&W Sigma has a polymer spring guide rod that can bend to a state where it can hinder the guns performance and my 1911 has a polymer mainspring housing. Both items I wish to replace with metal ones. For as the mainspring housing being of polymer I found that quite a few of the manufactures out there have polymer mainspring housings on their 1911's.
Since I have a 1911 with a polymer mainspring housing I was wondering again would someone come up with a polymer frame 1911? I just got the answer to my thoughts. Yes they do the EAA Witness 1911 Polymer. You can go to eaacorp.com/ to check out that 1911. I can just see 30+ years in the future and people seeing an all metal handgun and saying boy people way back then were really strong to carry that much weight in a holster all day. I guess polymers are here to stay but I don't see that all metal handgun going away anytime soon. OK guys your thoughts now.
My daughter came from Missouri, my son and grand son, my wife and I had a nice dinner of grilled "porter house" pork chops, corn on the cobb, my son, G'son and I share 10/5. G'son is 4 minutes early though @ 10/4.
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