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stevie_d_64 wrote:

The Annoyed Man wrote:

Jumping Frog wrote:I've carried my Para Ordnance 14.45 in the summer with shorts and (loose) tshirt. Conceals just fine so long as I have a quality gunbelt holding it up.

A Para 14.45 with two spare mags is 43 rounds of .45 ACP goodness, but it is also heavy and requires proper support: gunbelt and holster.

Don't forget the suspenders, weight-lifter's back brace, and a high-rise crane.

I thought you hated .45???

I LOVE .45. I'm just poking fun at the idea a steel framed double stack 1911 with 14 rounds on board and a couple of backup mags for CCW. The gunbelt hasn't been made that will keep your pants up under that load.

Jumping Frog wrote:I've carried my Para Ordnance 14.45 in the summer with shorts and (loose) tshirt. Conceals just fine so long as I have a quality gunbelt holding it up.

A Para 14.45 with two spare mags is 43 rounds of .45 ACP goodness, but it is also heavy and requires proper support: gunbelt and holster.

Don't forget the suspenders, weight-lifter's back brace, and a high-rise crane.

I know that the larger framed Paras will take 13+1 rounds. That said........and this is coming from someone who loooooooves the 1911 platform....I don't think that the 1911 is a good first time carry gun unless you've already got a lot of experience with the platform. My first carry gun was a 1911, but I had owned and shot one for years before I got my plastic.

If you're not familiar with the 1911 platform, then any of the point and click interfaces—Glock, S&W M&P, Springfield XD/XDm, Kahr, Walther, and others will provide you with a variety of double stack or single stack options, trigger pulls, etc., etc., and a much simpler manual of arms.

That said, everybody should own at least one 1911, but if I may compare guns to cars, your double stack polymer framed guns are the family station wagons of the gun world, while the 1911 is the Ferrari. It's not a good idea to learn to drive in a Ferrari either.