Didn't Know They Were So Old!

[ltorlo64]

When I was on my first submarine in the mid 80's, our sidearms were, for the most part, Remington 1911s. I just looked up the history of these weapons and they were most likely old WWII weapons! They still fired well and very rarely jammed. Never saw a misfire. Most of the jams just requred a whack to the slide to ram it home. I would love to have one of those 1911s with Remington on the slide. I know that Remington is making them again, which is what got me thinking about it, but I would prefer the originals. It would be even better to get one from WWI, but that is way to much to hope for. Too bad the government now sees it as a bad thing for us to own firearms. Then we might be able to get the government to sell off any they had as surplus instead of them giving them away to other countries.

[Gunreference1]

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d1/M1911_A1_pistol.jpg/800px-M1911_A1_pistol.jpg

Remington Rand 1911A1



http://www.1911r1.com/~/media/Images/1911r1/products/Rem1911-34552-prod.ashx?w=500

Remington R1


ltorlo64, the pistols you had on the submarine were a Remington Rand (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remington_Rand) 1911A1 made sometime from 1943-1945. This was a separate company from Remington Arms (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remington_Arms), now a part of the Freedom Group, owned by Cerberus Capital Management.
Just thought you should know.

Steve

[Richard Simmons]

I know what you mean. When I was on board ship we had all WWII era 45's. Do bear in mind that the Remington Rand of WWII and our navy days is not the same company that is making the 1911 now.

Remington UMC made the 1911 for WWI and is making the new R1 which is kind of a mix of 1911 and 1911A1 features. Remington Rand was a typewriter company that made the 1911A1 during WWII, in fact they produced more from 1942-45 than any other provider.

[deth502]

i have somewhere, or had at one time, a remington-rand typewriter.

i trade it for a 1911 if anyones interested :D