Why I Like The SKS....took a nice one to the range a handful of years ago, and a guy in a beat up truck pulled up, and said, "hey, I got one too!" He dragged out from behind the seat an SKS lightly spritzed with green spray paint, rustoleum, and rust. Proudly announced, "I ain't never cleaned'er yet, not since 1982, nossir," and put several magazines through it before throwing it back behind the seat, and breaking out the Marlin 336 with see-thrus (probably not cleaned for twice as long) for his annual 3 shots to check zero, and same box of ammo for last 5yrs.

Good guns. Both.

Thanks again, Wayne, for the gun compliments, as stock as they are. I could buy a Baer, Wilson, etc, but the bullseye gun was my one fling with "improving" old slabsides, as I plain prefer a stock spec gun, although I will admit a preference for the later style sights on the stainless job.

I have thinking about a Colt Combat Commander just for grins and giggles. oldguy

Lofty, sorry to edit down your quote. Bomar used to be THE 1911 aftermarket sight. I never had one on my 1911's but for years I drove by their shop about five miles from my headquarters.

It was not much more than a shack really. You would be surprised to see how humble it was.

It has been gone for years.

edit: After posting this I Googled Bomar; Seems they are still out there somewhere. If anyone knows. please advise.

Tom, I think there are some reproduction BoMars out there but not the same people. I think about 12 or 15 years ago the man who owned and started BoMar
was killed in a car wreck and the company was just closed up shortly afterwards.
oldguy

I know there is the official BoMar cut and name still copywrit, I have dealt with the oversize dovetail Kensight version (which they call the OOPS version), and of course, all the big name outfits are there.

Thanks for the info as to the BoMar company, and same as Ruana, love it when it turns out to be an old shack and small handmade outfit.

As for dovetails and problems, if you ever run across a gun/slide wrecked unintentionally by a local smith doing a bit too much filing or using a standard rifle dovetail cut, that Kensight can save the day for an adjustable, and for GI look, a Browning HiPower rear can be just the ticket.

Not sure if still applicable, or even correct, but it seems to memory that the Commander also suffered from internet misnaming to the point Colt surrendered? Everybody kept calling the steel version just a Commander, and the aluminum frame version the Ligtweight Commander, until, I think, Colt finally gave in.

I had a series 70 1911 that I sold last year that had a BoMar rear sight on it.

The late Bob Loveless,in his later years used to do a "melt" on the Commander series. Pretty much made it like a worn bar of soap.

I was contemplating on sending a Commander to him,but fortunately did not as he had passed away a short time later.

In all honesty,when JMB designed the 1911,it was not for any bullseye competition but for basically combat situations,probably 21 feet and less (mostly less).

That,it did very well of over a century and in my opinion is still doing so.

Wayne

Not sure about the design distance limitation, as JMB used to love roaming the desert with his pre-1911 prototype 1908, and normal NIB to-milspec gun with looser tolerance for passing the Army 5000rd trials (never since equalled) can still bounce cans (not saying from hits) at 50-100yds, plus, it was originally a cavalry gun "able to founder a horse".

I remember Loveless and his idea of melted...wow...talk about radical bob job. Never thought it attractive, but certainly bar of soap snag free, for sure. I almost bought a knife from him, but, despite his talk of wanting real people using, rather than collecting his knives, he quoted starving me a price of $2000 on a little fighter boot knife which was $150 only 7yrs earlier and the only price I knew and which money I had scraped up. He also was the main showman claiming his etched blades were stronger than "other makers" who stamped theirs, even though the Army had tested that concern years earlier and found no difference.

Yes,you are right about Loveless being the salesman but his knives were really nice. I don't think that I would pay the asking price in later years for one of them though.

Getting back to the 1911,it is a timeless design pretty much a classic.

Good enough to be the state gun for the State of Utah.

Wayne