2011

This year marks the one hundredth anniversary of the 1911 gun platform.
Happy Anniversary John Moses Browning!
I'm celebrating by getting myself a little GSG 1911/.22 to keep the RIA and the Kimber company. Everybody needs a little brother or sister, right? They've been bugging me for one...
Besides, even though I reload...shooting .22s is way cheaper when it comes to just general plinking.

An acquaintance loaned me his GSG for the weekend and I went out to shoot it earlier just before it got dark. I'm impressed with everything except the sights. Lucky that the GSG comes with three front sights (one on the gun and two others in the case).
The GSG 1911/22 has a three dot sight. Normally,you'd want to view them as three aligned (side by side) dots to hit your target where you intend to. But I found that the factory set sights make me drop the front sight dot LOWER than the two rear dots...so it takes on a "V" rather than a straight line. When I get my GSG out of layaway, that'll be the first thing I check after a preliminary cleaning and trip to the range.
Happy New Year.