Contemplating Purchase...

I like Baers more than Browns personally, regardless of price. More of a utilitarian, no nonsense, eat red meat kinda pistol. The Brown is pretty. Both are nice, depends on your taste.

 

On paper, they sound pretty comparable, and probably pretty close in price as well when each is duded up with the
specified options. I suspect both would have to be ordered with equivalent wait times.

So.......it might boil down to whether you wanted to deal with a Baer which will probably be tighter than any 1911 than
you've delt with before and marginally, if that, more accurate, OR a very nice Brown which is probably cosmetically better finished than the Baer.

I have variants of both--Baer and Brown--and have become a Baer advocate for reasons that would probably be
irrelevant to most others. Flip a coin, there is no wrong answer.

 

If pretty has anything to do with it, I say Brown.

claire

 

I vote Brown, just because Ed is less cranky than Les.

 

Ed doesn't list inventory or prices on the website anymore.. That tells me they're selling a lot more pistols than a year ago... Still.. I would think the Baer would be considerably cheaper.. Ron

 

If price is not an issue then I would take the Brown.
If Value is part of the equation then its the Baer. No Question.

 

There is definitely a point of diminishing returns once you sniff $2k. Is gun X that costs ____ more than gun Y worth the extra outlay of cash? Only the end-user can determine that (and the size of his bank account).

 

:lol::lol::lol::rofl2::animlol::faint:

 

What, no Dan Wesson then off to the uber smiff? If you put a gun to my head right now I'd say EB.

 

I like EB because you can get it "production semi-custom". :rofl2:

Tell Les you want your TRS flush crowned with no FCS and he will tell you that he will flush crown it up your ass.

 

Holy crap. A Joe sighting. :tongueout:

 

This times 100....!!