VaultDweller

I have an engineering degree too! So I knew enough to know that I would be better off buying a really well-made 1911, and then just taking it apart and putting it back together a few times. Which is what I did last week. Now I'm ready to start changing stuff... I'm starting with the grips, those look easy enough to swap out. After that, well, who knows. Great platform though.

You should be less concerned with astetics and more conserned with LASERS! Because they're awesome. Every gun should have lasers. And vice versa

I can help you. After I decided to buy mine earlier this year, I scoured the earth to find one. I looked everywhere, emailed everywhere, and internetted everywhere. Every site online was sold out or backordered. Every. One. I found one in stock at a store in connecticut, it said In-Stock on the website, but when I called them to get it, it turns out they wanted to save it for their local clientele. Apparently they are a top nationwide Ruger dealer. Undaunted, I pressed on. I eventually found mine on an auction site, Gunbroker.com. There were several available, but the best priced, best looking, brand new and most reputable buy seemed to be this outfitter store in Georgia, so I bought theirs. There were at least two others up for auction or instant buy last I checked. It was a pain in the ass paying by cashier's check and then doing the whole FFA exchange rigamarole with a local dealer, but at least the process was smooth, if not fast. Good luck!

I was just there on Monday! Can't believe it. It's happened there twice before, but the prior incidents were a few years back, and not in recent memory. They should really have something there for outreach, maybe a poster for To Write Love On Her Arms http://twloha.com/ and at the very least, the number for the National Hopeline. (1-800-SUICIDE). There is ALWAYS someone on the other end of that phone who will talk and listen to you.

Long Branch was quick. I initiated the process in July. They took my fingerprints shortly after. They called me in September saying my FID card was ready, but I didn't pick it up until much later. After that it can't have been much more than 6 weeks to get the permits back. This was much earlier this year.

Hello from Long Branch!

Thanks. To answer your questions, I have a Ruger SR1911! I like it a lot.

I have this really enormous walk in closet. It's filled with clothes - mine. In the rear there are 4 huge shelves, and a bunch of smaller tilted cubbies, peresumably for shoes (which I keep on racks near my home's entryways).I just put the safe on one of the shelves, and covered the door with old clothes. It's invisible. Drilling the holes for the fasteners was a huge ****, and I screwed up the 4th one, but the 3 I did get are solid, driven through 3/4 " wood and secured on the inside with washer, lock washer and hex nut. On the other side, I have one cubby devoted to miscellaneous crap, and everything else I need is there at the charging dock.

I was just going to stay where I am for a while! Maybe put lasers on it. Lasers are great!

Hello everyone, I started shooting a year ago. Here is my first gun. It is a Ruger SR 1911!

Hi everyone, So, the process I initiated back in July has completed, and now I have my handgun. It is a Ruger SR1911, made in 2012, new in the box. I got it on Gunbroker from an outfitter in Georgia. I put a safe in my house to prepare for it's arrival, and tried shooting a few similar guns. I've field stripped it twice, and put it back together twice, taken it to the range once, and even cleaned it. What else can I say. Here's a picture of it. It is big and loud and made of metal! Now I am going crazy buying accessories.

Mine too!

I just bought one in an online auction, looking forward to getting it.

Hi, I'm new! I'm a new shooter. I've had two formal training clases, I've been shooting four times, and I've got a smattering of experience with a variety of firearms - several 22 pistols, one revolver, several types of 9mm's, two .45's and three rifles. I just purchased my first weapon today. I'm looking forward to trying it out!