hicock 45 here with a big Dan Wesson
with a crazy long barrel or something on
it some sort of weird extension couldn't
get up my holster I couldn't figure out
why let's see let's shoot it see how it
shoots see if it'll smoke pot oh yeah I
think it's a uh I think it's a velocity
accelerator no it's the banish 45 right
so this is a suppressor and this firearm
is set up for a oppressor if you haven't
noticed that's why we're uh we may get
another uh Dan Wesson vigil at some
point and maybe the commander or
different size and just shoot at the
plane without the big giant sights on it
I don't know cuz I like the firearm and
uh and I saw they had one of these and
it was set up for suppressor threaded
barrel 45 let's let's get one of those
we got a cool suppressor for it and uh
and shoot it and bring it all along
how's that for a plan 45 is so cool
because it's already basically you know
subsonic so you don't need Special ammo
you just shoot it I started putting my
ears on then know so we've got the uh
Dan Wesson
vigil and again the banish 45 uh
suppressor suppressing a lot of the
sound
right from uh silencer
Central oh cool let's put I got to put
one on the gong oh look is getting away
oh Shah high it's all right let's go to
the
gong that's too cool it really
is now y'all get mad at me sometimes
because I I get such a thrill out of
shooting steel with a suppressor guess
what I'm going to do you see that uh
brown leaf just uh beyond the Buffalo
between the Buffalo and the uh gong okay
there's a brown leaf over there there
I'm going to see if I can hit
it I bounced into the uh go I'll shoot
at that brown leaf uh let's see down
below the pig over
there there got
it got it
again got him I'm going to shoot it a
brown leaf down here lower on the
hill got it every time I didn't miss I
promise I hit the brown one and uh that
way you could hear the suppressor okay
it doesn't come through you know the
camera and your computer your ears and
all that sort of thing uh exactly it
does for John and me cuz we're here but
uh yeah cuz your camera the camera your
your computer it suppresses everything
to a certain level so it's hard to to
Really compare you know Apples to Apples
but uh again those suppressors do not
totally remove the sound now they almost
do with a big old slow moving
45 uh but uh uh you know they suppress
it they reduce it okay that's the main
thing people shoot them a fair amount on
like 5.56
AR15s let's see you reduce that one down
to nothing you know but it it does
reduce the signature and when they're
used in I guess combat that's the main
goal is to maybe people get a sense of
where you are from uh a quarter mile
away but uh unlike without the
suppressor they get a pretty good idea
where you might be from five miles away
you know they're so loud so anyway some
of you folks in the military uh some of
you operators can give us more
information on that right okay I got
ammo here we're going to shoot some of
it you mind so again I haven't talk much
about the gun this vigil is pretty cool
it's uh Dan Wesson has a reputation for
making a quality firearm i' got a MAG in
of course
uh at a at a a fairly reasonable price
for what you get there are no minim
parts in a Dan Wesson as I understand
none zero okay and hand fitted Real
Steel so it's as close as you can get I
think to like an Ed Brown or Wilson
Combat you know some of those High those
custom gun makers so it's kind of the
low end of the custom gun makers hand
fitting and everything or it's the top
end of the production guns I guess you
say I don't know so it's just up there
between say cold Kimber and all those
companies that you know produce a lot of
firearms a lot Fair number of Min parts
and all that so it's up above them is
where most people place Dan Weston I
think but still I guess maybe below uh
you know your four or five Nighthawk
your big custom you know gun makers
maybe however a lot of people think this
is really the best value for the money
you know if you're going to pay $1,500
or up to 2,000 you know for a a custom
or for a you know 1911 all right they
they just have a great reputation it's
hard to find anybody that doesn't like
them uh they really do and I've always
been impressed now watch it quit
working totally
honest uh let's shoot the
tree and that's the advantage of of the
having these tall sights I can actually
use the sights and it seems to hit where
I'm aiming okay whereas if you just
stick a suppressor on your firearm you
you obscure your your sight line of
sight your sight picture usually not a
big issue a lot of people like I want to
get a barrel for one of my 45s I'm not
sure which one maybe the Nighthawk or
something so I can put this suppressor
on it and I'm not going to worry that my
sights aren't up above it because I'm
going to use it just for shooting big
targets up close I just R live around
didn't I like that I can still hit that
that Target I can still hit the
cowboy you know without having the
sights I'm pretty sure what if I could
hit that uh cender block over there she
going come close to him on that
Barrel I think I hit the
barrel I think I hit the CER
block that's
neat you hear it you with regular
gunfire you normally you can't sometimes
you can hear when you hit the barrel but
that was pretty cool uh so the gun
itself I think these are Cocola grips
nice
grips uh somebody I saw read I read they
they are made by hog I know if that's
true or not but they're nice grips
you've got a check ring on the front and
rear of this uh grip that is cool and
it's po not polymer it's alloy okay and
it's an aluminum grip and uh it's kind
of a lightweight you know firing because
of that and it's forged aluminum okay
but it's hand fitted everything else is
steel you got a stainless steel slide
that's a nitride finish you know and uh
you don't have a lot of Ambi stuff which
is fine for me uh just well made you got
the undercutting here and a little bit
of beveling on the
Magwell and gosh what else of course
again you got these tall sights now now
understand again if you're new to Farms
this is because we have a suppressor
it's suppressor ready it has a threaded
barrel came with it it's the model that
has that okay so it's kind of the
Tactical model even though they don't
really call it that I don't think I
guess you say it has Tactical Sights on
it and uh you know higher or taller
that's a an amow front sight okay it's a
night sight and I think this the same
SES on their Standard firearms except
they're shorter they're not as tall you
got that same am merlow trium site I
think on the front and then same type of
site on the rear just they're not as as
big okay it's a vigil these just came
out a couple of years ago and uh they're
pretty nice I tell you one Chism I have
of it let me take aot and that is I mean
I'm I tell you what I don't need another
1911 need there's that word but I was
tempted and uh am still on getting this
gun for myself in the commander uh size
it comes in a commander and a uh I think
they call it the CCO which is the
officer's model grip size with Commander
length uh slide for a quarter um and I
am really tempted on on buying this I
like this gun uh just as an aside I
really like it but you know what the
only problem I have with it and I was
ready to order one but uh when I put my
thumb up on the safety like that some
some 1911s are just that way with me
then when my thumb's up there the I I
don't activate the grip safety I can't
pull the trigger now okay and I like to
shoot that way sometimes and you know
and for the defensive F you it's not a
bad position so so it's because of my
large hand though you might not have
that it doesn't have that extra bump on
the grip safety okay so that's my only
negative really period that I can think
of maybe I can make up some though okay
make up some reasons to bash
it pretty neat
firearm uh Dan Wesson does a good job I
keep wanting to put my ears on but I'm
not let's shoot that red TW ler right
there on top of that post I've seen one
there before yeah boom smack let's hit
that orange one down here and listen to
a
smack I didn't get a good solid hit on
it oh I did on that one uh do you mind
if I go back over there on that uh
cinder block that was fun
I love the
sound
boom oh just hearing where you hit is so
cool all right as I said before it's
it's more enjoyable and humorous if you
hear shooting I don't think it uh you
get the full effect if you're on the
other side of the computer screen but uh
it's just really neat the sound is so
different let's let's shoot that Buffalo
up there
just hear him get
hit bong how about that Ram while we're
at
it he like throwing rocks and the gong
needs another
hit went
[Applause]
[Music]
low how about you Cowboy I'm going to
kill you silently
[Applause]
oh man I'm going to take the suppressor
off because I want you to see this
firearm and uh you without that
extension okay so pretty cool is it hot
hot not too bad oh it feels good out
here is it's kind of chilly you know
this is the uh and this is the way you
want to take them off with the slide
back ideally nice and safe the old
banish 45 we' got a lot of good use out
of that nice nice
suppressor
okay the same one we've used on other
smaller
9mm know you just change out the Piston
adapter he just a little bit warm get
the thread protector on there back
on all right now it still has that
Barrel sticking out you got those big
sights and everything but uh but but
these are nice pistols they really are
and and they're good looking you know I
I don't have a lot of negatives I'm
sorry I could make up some things you
know just to maybe get attention sound
dramatic but other than the uh the grip
safety uh you know you know it seems
that most of these maybe it's just the
more expensive ones or whatever but most
of the grip safeties now you got that
extra bump on there to take care of that
issue and maybe this one they thought
it's it extends enough that that's not
going to be an issue for people with
gigantic hands like me but I I really
need that uh cuz I just can't you know
my twoed Browns both of them and my
Nighthawk I can lay my thumb up there
and I don't I don't get that and some of
my other 1911s but I wish I could on
these I tell you I like this I want one
I I one of my firearms on my to on my
to-do list on my uh I don't know bucket
list or whatever is cuz I've never
really had one is for when I'm in the
mood to carry a 1911 and I've been known
to do it it would be a lightweight
Commander just like this in a commander
size you know really uh and one thing I
like about this one and the commander
the same way it's got a ramped barrel in
there yeah ramped Barrel so it's dirties
and hard to tell but you're not relying
on you know the rounds banging against
an aluminum ramp okay cuz I've had
trouble with that many many years ago
dinning up an aluminum frame so you got
a ramped barrel which is the rounds
hitting steel and uh all that so anyway
that would be nice but smooth oh man put
together well let's take a couple of now
these are the mags that came with it
comes with two mags sells for about
13400 okay didn't say that yet did
okay wow tight okay oh I better put my
ears in now I just about
didn't it's a little different all
right yeah it's not quiet what's wrong
with it now let's go hit the
gong see if it still shoots
straight without that
attachment still
shoots yeah nice pistol uh boy I tell
you what this is a pistol I can I can
recommend I like it yeah if you're
looking for something and and you you
got that kind of money to spend and you
want to get something
Beyond I guess what you could say a lot
of really pretty good pistols whether
it's a Kimber or a Colt name them
there's a bunch of good 1911s you you
can get for
800,000 you know but if you wanted to if
you wanted to get one without the minim
parts if that bothers you at all and
you'll more hand fitting that kind of
thing just a nice smooth smooth firearm
getting up there into that territory of
those Custom Guns uh you know it's
something to consider just uh you know
research them don't take my word for it
I don't know nothing right really but it
it it's smooth you it feels good that
that front checkering is really nice uh
that's the thing I like about it just
locks into your hand
boom yeah man uh I'd have one on order
if it weren't for the safety I really
would it it it feels feels feels very
good so it's the vigil there was
anything I forgot to tell you I guess
not uh so anyway we appreciate everybody
that's helped us with this got us the
gun and suppressor and uh ammo and you
know just a lot of fun to shoot 45 is a
lot of fun to shoot I always tell you
you don't have to carry it I rarely
carry them
occasionally uh they're just really
really fun guns to find big old 45 slug
does not kick that much at all you might
think it does cuz it's such a big bullet
but it really doesn't uh a lot of fun to
shoot and every firearm we purchase
doesn't have to
be something we're going to rely on you
know for self-defense or or even carry
you on our person so uh you would enjoy
shooting one I I have to uh to say that
CU they're fun to shoot so the vigil by
Dan Wesson not a bad little pistol no
doubt about it life is is
good fire it's a long walk from where I
had to shoot that oh man oh hey didn't
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