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Originally Posted by Riverpigusmc
Ubaldo...be advised, the stainless Wessons have had some galling problems as of late. Carbon steel is good to go. Do me a favor...unload your 1911, and hold it in your hand. Make a fist. Thumb disengages the thumb safety, palm disengages the grip safety, index finger squeezes the trigger. All by just making a fist, the way it was designed.
Ride the safety thumbs forward. I do, ever since Dave Waits schooled  on it. Search "Hey , lets play cowboys and Indians" on this forum. Follow Yoda's pictorial, and you will never miss taking off the safety again. And I'd shot crossed thumbs for 35 years
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I refuse to change my two handed grip I've used for 40 years on every handgun just to carry a 1911 and not worry about snicking the safety off Pig..
Condition 0 works just as well as condition 1 without having to change grip or think about snicking. I've used condition 0 for longer than most have carried a 1911 in condition 1 without any issues. Having someone change their grip just to reliably snick seems like bad advice. If they've not used flagged or forward thumbs in the past, the issue then becomes will they revert back to their normal grip under stress. The less you change what you're accustomed to the better. He's also been trained to shoot one handed the majority of the time and a flagged/forward thumb does not give the best grip one handed [ for recoil control ]. Humans have an opposable thumb for a reason, and it's not to grip tools with the thumb flagged/forward. It's an unnatural grip.
LG,
After carrying a steel govt model [ or two ] for near 30 years professionally, I prefer the lw commanders presently. It'll be personal preference for everyone to decide, but remember, the shorter the slide, the faster it clears leather.
No need to compromise if you want to carry 45acp, there's always the DA/SA guns like my Sig 227.. No remembering snicking or change of grip you're used to required. The other issue I see is the commonality of drawing and firing various firearms. In condition 0, the 1911 is no different than pulling my
s, or Sigs--draw and fire. If you move back and forth between platforms of striker and hammer fired that don't require snicking and then the 1911 where you'll have to snick and change your hold to make the snicking reliable, you're changing too many ingrained skills to meet one guns requirements, IMO. That's a recipe for disaster when your under the stress of having to defend yourself, again IMO.
There's a lot to be said for commonality of skills between various weapons platforms.