Pistol Annie has a 938 and a 238. I refer to them as 1911-style pistols - with an outward resemblance but little else.
Even these two guns are different from each other. While you can use the same holster for both, the fit is sub-optimal.
The guns look like little 1911s, there are even parts inside that look like 1911 parts. But very, very few 1911 components can actually be used. For example:
Annie's 938 had a magazine release spring made for the Incredible Hulk or Andre the Giant or someone. She took it to a "gunsmith" at the local gun club.
He told her he couldn't do anything about it, and that she should put in an extended mag release (just like you might do in a 1911.)
Well, there aren't any extended mag releases for the little Sigs. So a couple of weeks ago I took it apart. Most of the action components look nothing like a 1911. But the mag release does look like a 1911 part, except the dimensions are different and incompatible even though the design and function are the same.
And, it turns out, can use a normal 1911 mag release spring if you shorten them a bit So I found an old one, cut a couple of coils off it and put it back together.
It was much better, a good deal lighter than the original (yet still plenty strong to secure magazines) and she can now drop magazines without using both hands.
But the little P-series Sigs are definitely not mini-1911s. Springfield's EMPs are mini-1911s.
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