I saw this posted on a Yahoo list by Jack Fuselier. He is a superb gunsmith from a family of gunsmiths. He has been around for a long time, now in his 70s and does a lot of 1911 work. I thought his comments on this pistol would be of interest to 1911 fans:
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I felt I should pass this along, particularly to the members who
are interested in the 1911 and accurizing. This is about the
new Dan Wesson 1911 Pointman 1911A1s. I saw my first one some months ago at a local show where I had a table. I bought a DW PM2 minor from an unlicensed fellow who trades in guns by walking the aisles.
I wasn't interested at first, but I looked it over at his insistence,
and ultimately fell in love with it because it was so well made. I
bought it from him.
After taking it home and shooting it, I was confident that my early
assessment was absolutely correct. I get every kind of 1911 in here for one reason or another, including the very high dollar Les Baers, and this DW gun was as well put together as any production line 1911 pistol I had ever had in my hands, and as accurate as any 1911 I have ever seen or shot, bar none. I was astounded, to say the least.
I thought perhaps that this was a fluke, but when the opportunity
came up to acquire more DW assembly line pistols I bought them.
These guns put any 1911 'smith out of the accurizing business.
To make the story short, these new guns are absolutely correct, and looking them over I find a hundred things that I learned the hard way in a lifetime of working with 1911s are incorporated and correct in these guns. I even called and talked to one of the DW gunsmiths about them. I believe these are the finest production 1911A1s ever made and the accuracy is incredible. This is not a commercial, it is just about how amazed I am at the quality and accuracy.
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I felt I should pass this along, particularly to the members who
are interested in the 1911 and accurizing. This is about the
new Dan Wesson 1911 Pointman 1911A1s. I saw my first one some months ago at a local show where I had a table. I bought a DW PM2 minor from an unlicensed fellow who trades in guns by walking the aisles.
I wasn't interested at first, but I looked it over at his insistence,
and ultimately fell in love with it because it was so well made. I
bought it from him.
After taking it home and shooting it, I was confident that my early
assessment was absolutely correct. I get every kind of 1911 in here for one reason or another, including the very high dollar Les Baers, and this DW gun was as well put together as any production line 1911 pistol I had ever had in my hands, and as accurate as any 1911 I have ever seen or shot, bar none. I was astounded, to say the least.
I thought perhaps that this was a fluke, but when the opportunity
came up to acquire more DW assembly line pistols I bought them.
These guns put any 1911 'smith out of the accurizing business.
To make the story short, these new guns are absolutely correct, and looking them over I find a hundred things that I learned the hard way in a lifetime of working with 1911s are incorporated and correct in these guns. I even called and talked to one of the DW gunsmiths about them. I believe these are the finest production 1911A1s ever made and the accuracy is incredible. This is not a commercial, it is just about how amazed I am at the quality and accuracy.