LIMCAT CUSTOM: RACE READY COOL

​Limcat Custom makes some of the coolest iterations of the 1911 platform available on the market today. These are high-end assemblages of the best custom components from Caspian, Wilson, Ed Brown, STI etc married with premium parts then accessorized and sculpted to form aggressive-profiled competition pistols for the VERY serious shooter. With frame mounted sighting, slide racker and pronounced compensators, these masterpieces have splendid profiles spawned from the parentage of utility and precision. These are very lustworthy objects that’d be as well placed in a museum of modern art as they are at the IPSC range. As remarkable as these pistols look, and with the variety of available finishes (check out the gold!), one would be forgiven for mistaking these 1911’s as vanity pieces or showcase ornaments: but their purpose explains all and after digesting this we see them in a new light…like a Formula One car. Or an Arabian horse. Or a P-51 Mustang. Some things are created beautiful simply as a byproduct of their absolute, unwavering purpose. It’s an accidental benefit of being pure. Okay, maybe I’m being too romantic, there’s undoubtedly an angle or two hewn for attraction-enhancement alone, but overall the form is a result of necessitating the end purpose. Alas, not all weapons are born this pretty. I once had a disagreement with a weapons engineer who insisted it was not possible to have both a beautiful exterior and a functional interior when it came to guns. This argument was the end of our association because neither of us could agree to differ nor evidently see past our own beliefs. But personally I think the original John Browning 1911 is a thing of minimalist loveliness, born from absolute function and yet crafted by the hands of a man of a different, more artistic era in which aesthetics were something to be admired. In my opinion that all ended in the 1980’s when maximizing profit became the zenith of manufacturing endeavors, accountants began running corporations and we started outsourcing everything to nations wriggling out from beneath the heinous cement block of communism and/or oppression. Cheap is rarely beautiful, which is why when we buy a hand crafted American 1911 that has hundreds of hours of conceptual consideration behind it, we get a memorable heirloom versus a shooting tool that resembles two lengths of 2x4 nailed together and sprayed black. My commendations to Limcat for birthing some handsome offspring and keeping the platform alive. Check them out at https://www.limcat.com 
GOM