The evolution of IPSC guns

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Ran across this cool BEnos thread while internetting: http://www.brianenos.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=22496&st=0

Raceguns are all pretty homogeneous these days, and it's cool to read about the days when people did crazy elephant dung like this:

Mac's 45 shop in Seal Beach built me a 1911 Colt with the grip cutoff and pieces added to allow the use of S&W 459 magazines around 1988-89. Man, what an advantage, it held around 14 rounds of major 9mm. Of course the pounding from the 115gr major 9's beat the solder joints in the grip to pieces and I had to get it done about every 4-5 months.

Another story in another thread:

As I recall, he had to take two steel frames for M-39s, slice them in two off-center, and then weld them together, to make one frame with a magazine opening large enough for .45 ACP magazines.

Then get .45 ACP magazines made by hand with which to feed it.

Nowadays everyone just buys a 2011. Booooooooooooriiiiiiiiiiiiiiiing.