Comments on: Taurus 1911 pistols in 9mm and .38 Super http://www.thefirearmblog.com/blog/2009/11/16/taurus-1911-pistols-in-9mm-and-38-super/ Firearms not Politics Mon, 22 Mar 2010 09:26:25 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: CUrob http://www.thefirearmblog.com/blog/2009/11/16/taurus-1911-pistols-in-9mm-and-38-super/#comment-18243 CUrob Mon, 16 Nov 2009 19:14:35 +0000 http://www.thefirearmblog.com/blog/?p=9219#comment-18243 Steve, You haven't let us down... Taurus has. TAURUS - GET THESE TO MARKET PLEASE!!! I have been contacting dealers all over the SE with no luck. Steve, You haven’t let us down… Taurus has.
TAURUS – GET THESE TO MARKET PLEASE!!! I have been contacting dealers all over the SE with no luck.

]]> By: DrStrangegun http://www.thefirearmblog.com/blog/2009/11/16/taurus-1911-pistols-in-9mm-and-38-super/#comment-18228 DrStrangegun Mon, 16 Nov 2009 16:14:46 +0000 http://www.thefirearmblog.com/blog/?p=9219#comment-18228 Hrmm. If I could get one of these, I might just be convinced to also buy another Phillipines double stack 1911 just for the frame... modify the ejector a little, buy a big pile of the largest Para compatible 9mm/.38super doublestack magazines I could lay hands on, and BOOM! Son of Spacegun*! *Etiology: Started with Frankengun, Para P16-40 converted to 10mm with other internal goodies, and a pile of lucky-find competition extended .40 magazines, for 19+1 capacity. Frankengun was to recieve an "upgrade" fitment of a 10mm carbine upper. Unfortunately the Para LDA system doesn't work with the Mech-Tec CCU units due to one frickin' 1/8" wide strip of missing metal (seriously, if I had machine tools at home I'd have shaped a wafer and superglued it in place). So, with Frankengun "un-pictured", I thought a bit and found an RIA '1911A2' cheap. Cheap because they apparently are not qual-checked at the factory and mine needed tweaking to run. But, for $250 I got a new (and decent) .45 upper and barrel for another project, and what is essentially a cast clone of Para's double stack, single action frame. Carbine + RIA frame = Spacegun! Son of spacegun... ok, maybe not right. Son of Frankengun, that works. Then I could combine the RIA slide and Taurus frame (modified) into an "honest" 1911. Bride of Frankengun? Hrmm.

If I could get one of these, I might just be convinced to also buy another Phillipines double stack 1911 just for the frame… modify the ejector a little, buy a big pile of the largest Para compatible 9mm/.38super doublestack magazines I could lay hands on, and BOOM! Son of Spacegun*!

*Etiology:
Started with Frankengun, Para P16-40 converted to 10mm with other internal goodies, and a pile of lucky-find competition extended .40 magazines, for 19+1 capacity.

Frankengun was to recieve an “upgrade” fitment of a 10mm carbine upper. Unfortunately the Para LDA system doesn’t work with the Mech-Tec CCU units due to one frickin’ 1/8″ wide strip of missing metal (seriously, if I had machine tools at home I’d have shaped a wafer and superglued it in place).

So, with Frankengun “un-pictured”, I thought a bit and found an RIA ‘1911A2′ cheap. Cheap because they apparently are not qual-checked at the factory and mine needed tweaking to run. But, for $250 I got a new (and decent) .45 upper and barrel for another project, and what is essentially a cast clone of Para’s double stack, single action frame.

Carbine + RIA frame = Spacegun!

Son of spacegun… ok, maybe not right. Son of Frankengun, that works. Then I could combine the RIA slide and Taurus frame (modified) into an “honest” 1911. Bride of Frankengun?

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