First Completed Build

[the1mu]

Thanks to all in this community for the advice and answered questions.

Built the lower on this 10.5", 5.56 PSA pistol with my 8 and 6 year old daughters today. Great family activity.

[Chipperman]

Looks great! How do you like the Romeo?

[mavracer]

Those will be great memories.

[bfoosh006]

Very Nice... enjoy that firearm.

[the1mu]

Originally Posted by Chipperman

Looks great! How do you like the Romeo?

It's a great basic red dot. Wouldn't mind some reticle options, but I'm not complaining. Great way to start!

[GarandTd]

Looks good. How do you like that NightStrike angled grip?

[Frisco]

Nicely done. I have actually grown SUPER fond of the ROMEO series of red dots over the last 7 or 8 years. In fact, I have stopped buying AimPoint all together in favor of the ROMEO series.

My first Sig RDS was an STS-081 that came on my first gen Sig 516. I pulled it off and mounted the mandated AimPoint Patrol, but stuck the STS-081 on another rifle and years later and a gazbillion rounds through it...it has never drifted off zero.

Any time I buy a non magnified RDS now...it's a ROMEO.

I think that, and in combo with your new build will be a GREAT combo.

[Ignition Override]

the1mu:

Very, very cool gun.

The fact that it's a Sig-Sauer, even better . And this is from a guy who mostly prefers a Czechpoint VZ-58 and a few imported AKMs (yes-irrational, delusional, "crackers").

The best thing might be that your daughters are interested, and that maybe they are young enough for the interest to blossom.
My son was already gone to college when my gun bug finally bit.

[imashooter]

Nice looking gun. very nice. Glad to see your daughters invited you in for the build.

[tex45acp]

I built this Commander for my son from a bare frame and slide.

[rodfac]

Beautiful work, Tex45. Alloy slide? Officer's Model grip length? And how's it shoot? Slide & frame finish type?

Here's my Sig 1911 RCS for comparison...really like the size, weight, and especially the trigger/accuracy. It's my hands down favorite for big (read adult) caliber carry. Regards, Rod

[tex45acp]

Both slide and frame are steel. Officers model grip length. It is almost as accurate as my Wilson Combat Professional. I don't remember the brand name but it was a company in Louisana and it was a Teflon based coating. They stripped the nickel finish and applied the coating. I was really impressed with the finished product.

[glove]

Look good. Now enjoy that build.

[rodfac]

Nice work Tex, thx for the info...look's like a great carry piece. Rod

[HisSoldier]

your AR project puts you in a very elite group who not only assembles guns but perhaps more rare, you involved your little one's! I do hope she doesn't write about the project for school (Her last day!) but it sounds like you're teaching the more important things.

Someone needs to teach our school teachers to respect our nation's gun heritage.

[the1mu]

Haha... my girls are homeschooled so they'd just tell their mom and she was helping us anyway!! Lol. And yes, the respect for constitution has gone out the window in our educational institutions.

[the1mu]

Originally Posted by GarandTd

Looks good. How do you like that NightStrike angled grip?

It fits my hand perfectly and allows me to throw my thumb over the top really comfortably. Perfect grip all around! For my fat hands at least.

[Glockcarry007]

Looks good thanks for sharing

[stinkeypete]

HisSoldier- instead of telling us teachers what we need to teach, maybe Teach your own children about firearms at home, like the OP has done with his build. When the COVID clears up, go volunteer at your local middle or high school for a couple of months and scratch the surface of what a teacher deals with on a day to day basis. This teacher can tell you about the National Firearms Act of 1934, why it was enacted, and discuss the racist overtones of it as the violent acts in the newspapers were being committed by the Dirty Italians and Dirty Irish, the “illegals” of yesteryear. We can also discuss the Gun Control Act of 1968 and the social abuses that led to that legislation, the complete fallacy of the mythical “American Gunslinging Cowboy”, how in fact the civil was WAS about slavery and capitalism... if you want to educate, start with original source materials.

Just like the OP, who started with bits of metal and assembled his own AR. GREAT JOB!

My personal opinion is that ain’t no pistol, just like holding a scale model of a howitzer in your hand doesn’t make it a pistol, but the OP knows every pin and spring in that firearm and when the novelty wears off, he has the know how now to make it in to any sort of rifle as suits his fancy.

The fellas making 1911s... I wish I had the full up metal shop I once had access to. Beautiful work, all of ya.

[the1mu]

Originally Posted by tex45acp

I built this Commander for my son from a bare frame and slide.

Beautiful! I had no clue you could build a 1911... Now I have my next project!

[Ricardo China]

Beautifull build, great and healty family activity.

[HisSoldier]

This teacher can tell you about the National Firearms Act of 1934, why it was enacted, and discuss the racist overtones of it as the violent acts in the newspapers were being committed by the Dirty Italians and Dirty Irish, the “illegals” of yesteryear. We can also discuss the Gun Control Act of 1968 and the social abuses that led to that legislation, the complete fallacy of the mythical “American Gunslinging Cowboy”, how in fact the civil was WAS about slavery and capitalism... if you want to educate, start with original source materials.

Any and all laws formed since 1789 that infringe on our second amendment rights are illegal and unconstitutional, in my opinion (For the record). We hold certain people in exalted positions based on their understanding of the law, yet no one is perfect, no one is exempt from weakness. As a simple high school graduate I think I can read and understand the Constitution. So why we need certain people to "Interpret" it is beyond my understanding.
How's this for the law and dirty this or that people, punish the people who commit the bad behavior, and never those who don't? As for slavery and capitalism, it is likewise unfair to condemn capitalists like myself who don't use it to extract wealth at the expense of others without power, the Golden rule works for all people, rich or poor, wise or foolish, kind or harsh. But if you want to condemn socialism I'll hop right on board Sir.

Finally, I protest being drawn into a fight over this because I've been warned to stay away from politics, are you trying to get me kicked off the board? My comments about what schools teach are sincere and were not intended to anger anyone at all. I apologize if you took me wrong as I certainly don't know what you or any individual instructors teach, I only read about tiny kids being kicked out of school for drawing a stick figure of an airsoft pistol, maybe that was in Yugoslavia, I don't know.

[stinkeypete]

We're all friends here, my apologies for getting a little hot under the collar there myself. Sorry.

I agree that "Any and all laws formed since 1789 that infringe on our second amendment rights are illegal and unconstitutional" because what you are saying is a tautology... if it indeed infringes than indeed it infringes. The difficulty is in what exactly infringes.

While you may have your own opinion, if you are caught with a firearm that is in violation of the National Firearms Act of 1934 without the proper paperwork, the fact is you will be spending a LOT of money to defend yourself from felony criminal charges and conviction. My money is on the feds here.

As for other politics, let's talk guns.