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No. 109720
ID: 0d01d8
Not trying to hijack, but I was just looking around the Fusion Firearms 1911 page and saw that they offer 1911 barrels in .380 ACP. They're listed with other fullsize 1911 barrels so I do not think they are intended for the little Browning semi-miniatures, but then again I don't know for certain.
The more I ponder the mental image of a full-size 5" 1911 in .380, the more it boggles my tiny, childlike little mind. What kind of magazines would you use? Just load them in 9mm mags and hope for the best? Try to make some kind of spacer inside the mag to hold them about 3/16" further forward? Would a 9mm extractor work? The extractor groove dimensions are similar but not identical. The case diameter is a few thousandths smaller than 9mm and not tapered, so it'd sit at a higher angle in the mag, all else being equal, and that might even help feeding a little. What kind of recoil spring would you use? A fullsize 5" 1911 in 9mm usually has a 10 or 12 pound spring. 7 pounds? 8 pounds? Is that even going to be enough to strip the top round out of the mag and chamber it?
I am mindboggled that someone wanted to do this. Well, okay, it's different, and yeah, it'll make holes in paper, yeah, it could be an amusing range toy for a couple of mags, but "cheap" .380 ball ammo is as expensive as .45 ACP in most stores around here. And all of this is presuming you could get it to run, which is not a foregone conclusion.
I guess it'd be easy to rack the slide, but when I consider the class of end user who wants or desires a slide that can be racked with very little force, the mental image I am getting is of people who aren't going to train and who don't know about keeping their booger hooks off the bang switch until they want to shoot, so something with a crisp four pound trigger is gonna be Right Out. This is a class of end user who is going to have considerable difficulty holding three pounds of metal at arms' length anyway.
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