I just got off of the phone with Alex Zimmerman, CEO of Guncrafter Industries. Our discussion eventually came around to the GI HOSS 1911. After speaking with him about the design tweaks to the 1911 platform, I'm pretty sure I'll eventually own one of these. He's basically identified all of the weak links in the 1911 platform and eliminated them...or as close as humanly possible. There's an article in the American Handgunner magazine that goes into detail of this pistol, and I'd suggest you read it if you are in the market for a 1911 that you can pass on down through the generations. This is one bad mamba jamba.
“Any chain is only as strong as its weakest link. In the case of the HOSS, we’ve upgraded the potential weakest links and they are all much stronger,” said Alex. “In a standard 1911 there may be parts failures after x-number of rounds in their normal MTBF cycles. I feel strongly we’ve decreased the likelihood of any failure exponentially in the HOSS. In fact, I think, with normal use — it may never happen.”
http://americanhandgunner.com/guncrafters-hoss/
“Any chain is only as strong as its weakest link. In the case of the HOSS, we’ve upgraded the potential weakest links and they are all much stronger,” said Alex. “In a standard 1911 there may be parts failures after x-number of rounds in their normal MTBF cycles. I feel strongly we’ve decreased the likelihood of any failure exponentially in the HOSS. In fact, I think, with normal use — it may never happen.”
http://americanhandgunner.com/guncrafters-hoss/
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