Ultimately, all pistols of this type boil down to two fundamental designs that both do the same thing. The first double-stack 1911s and what we now call a 2011 emerged in the late 1980s and early 1990s. The First Double-Stack 1911s And The вЂњ2011вЂќ 38 Super widebody with a comp for this same reason. 45 ACP.ДЄ lot of todayвЂ™s Open class shooters run a. 40 S&W) to make Major Power Factor, giving them a big edge in capacity over shooters with guns in. While todayвЂ™s shooter generally prefers 9mm, the early widebody guns were far more common in. The creation of the double-stack guns also helped usher in the Open and Limited divisions in those sports, which to this day are dominated by widebody/2011 pistols. The idea mostly came from IPSC and USPSA shooters who wanted a higher-capacity pistol that wasnвЂ™t a DA/SA gun and вЂ“ at the time вЂ“ Glocks werenвЂ™t considered the most competitive option. The 2011/double-stack 1911 was designed to keep the positive attributes of the 1911 (the trigger, ergonomics, etc.) while enhancing capacity, with the first examples emerging in the early 1990s. While itвЂ™s an amazing handgun, itвЂ™s not necessarily for everyone. WeвЂ™ll go over whatвЂ™s so great about them as well as some pitfalls to be aware of. So, letвЂ™s talk about what a 2011 actually is. The 2011 frame was invented by the founders of STI, the company now called StaccatoвЂ¦but it isnвЂ™t the only widebody 1911 frame that uses a double-stack magazine. While the term gets used colloquially to refer to any double-stack 1911, they just arenвЂ™t.

A Quick Guide To 2011 And Other Double-Stack 1911 PistolsД®very 2011 is a widebody/double-stack 1911, but not every widebody/double-stack 1911 is a 2011.

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