Firing the Ultra Rare Singer 1911, Worth as Much as a House
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True story! My dad was given a singer 1911 in 1995 as payment for 4 chords of firewood! We stopped at the gun store on the way home to sell it and the cashier had never heard of it b4! On the way out of the store an affluent looking gentleman stopped my dad and educated him on what he was holding. Two weeks later that gentleman came to the house and paid my dad $20,000 in cash to buy it! My dad went back to the old lady that had given it to him and tried to give her $5000 she would not let him. We instead never charged her for firewood from that day on!
Awesome story thanks for sharing!
Good father, we need more like him
I love this❤
Sounds like you had a good ol man.
If ALL of that is true..... that's fucking beautiful man!!! Lol
Some history: apparently even though Singer couldn’t produce 100 guns a day, the War Department saw the guns made as higher quality and instead gave Singer contracts for more expensive components for things like aircrafts.
I thought they ended up getting the contract for Norton bomb sights.
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Norden. Not Norton
( I still love you. )
Cool that you knew that!!!
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@@shallnotcomply6479the article I read said T-1 bomb sights, B-29 bomber gunfire control computers, directional gyros, artificial horizon instruments, and autopilot controls as examples, I wouldn’t know if there’s any other examples and am no historian.
my grandma has some old singer sewing machines that still work flawlessly to this day and now i know why.
WTF?! In 1969-70, I carried a Singer 1911A1 In Vietnam. It was a great weapon, with tight tolerances, and a really nice recoil spring action. I would have attempted to swipe it if I had only known...DANG!
As a 1911 guy, I really appreciate you shooting the guns while simultaneously giving them reverence.
dude that loaned them is first class, i think i can say this for all of us.... please, please tell him thank you very very much.... doc
Ok i will
When Singer delivered its initial batch of 1911s to the US the military looked them over and found that they were very finly machined and had Singer make aircraft parts instead
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No they didnt and dont want trops to have nice things
It helps prevent them from being spoiled little grunts
@@krossblod8763 Yes, because of course it's better to have non-functioning weapons than to *spoil* them with things that actually work properly. The ideal standard for all militaries.
Joel is a legend. These guns were built to be fired and him allowing you to share these and the rocket pistols that shot… most of the time is so bad ass!!
As I understand it, the Singer’s were so good they were distributed to other manufacturers as examples.
I've also heard that's one of the reasons they couldn't meet the 100 a day. Quality control and care for manufacturing was to high. I can attest that the government is definitely looking for the cheapest and fastest to hire.
I worked for an electric company that was subcontracted through the government and we made things like Humvee wire harnesses and tank auxiliary cables along with other things (those two stuck out the most). Boy let me tell you, as long as the work was done half assed on time then they didn't care who did it. We had 4 recovering meth addicts, 1 "recovered" meth addicts and probably half the work force or more at least smoked pot and many on the job. Random bum people who really didn't have a skill only put wire here. I quickly became one of the more skilled their as I actually knew how to work more complex tools and solder lol.
@@betafishjeremy7454I mean to be fair, the meth heads were probably the best workers
There is a Popular Mechanics article that said the gov't thought it would be a waste for them to make handguns at that quality so they had them make bombsights
I have one 1911 singer right now...
This has to be one of, if not THE best intro so far! 😂😂😂
I love it when people jest about that girl's videos 🤣
Indeed. 😂😂
This one deserves the 🏆.
For real
They always somehow get better and better
Agreed! 😂
That Singer gun is probably finer than any 1911 made today. They made incredibly high quality machines back then. A lot of their sewing machines from that era are still being used today, running just like new.
Never shot a Chambers, huh? lol
Yeah, still got a singer sewing machine at my mums, it's not only reliable, but it was also made to look amazing, including the legs, and still works when needed.
@@trevorhawkins8757never shot a singer, huh? Lol
Got two Singer treadle sewing machines. One was made in 1927 the other was made in 1922. Even have one button hole device. Attaches to the pressure foot. There are 8 insert gears that make the button hole sizes desired.
@@A_potato9772 it’s very common knowledge that Joe Chambers makes the best custom hand fitted 1911’s you can buy.
At 1:57 minutes is the most respectfull handling I've seen Matt doing on weapons ever. Quality content as always. Keep that kar-21 in mind dude.
It's actually kind of insane how you've made high quality entertaining videos for such a long time, Keep it up Matt! Intro was a banger
Agreed, that intro will be a classic.
But seriously, that North American Arms one is around $100-150k estimated value, and then a Singer sold at auction recently for $414k!
The thing to remember about the singer contract is they didn't lose it because the guns were bad they lost it because their precision was wasted on 1911s they ended up making classified parts for the Nordwn Bombsight.
which was a bucket of crap. lol. should have stuck with good pistols.
Not wasted, just above government grade. That precision is absolutely valued by those who like precision tools.
@@jaydunbar7538 it was a waste of their factory time making 1911s and that's what the government inspectors said of the 500 pistols examined.
The level of precision wasn't needed and was more useful producing other more delicate and more precision components.
I agree with your wording. 1911s in WWII we’re going to be abused, abandoned, etc. Any other company could make them for that purpose. Their precision could definitely be used elsewhere
@@alyssatipton5080 the spec was really quite loose which is why the ww2 guns are so reliable.
911s tend to only go to jamming and being hard to keep running when yiu accurise it by making it to tighter tolerances.
Singer were an impressive maker of aviation parts in ww2 the Nordwn Bombsight being one of them
The crown jewel of my collection is a 1 of 51 prototype rifles that was made in the 70's. I shoor it whenever I have 7.62 NATO to spare when I go to the range.
A rare or cool gun is pretty much useless if you can't/won't shoot it tbh
Not only did he share them with you, he shared them with us. Very cool
Joels a good guy. To let you borrow those gems. He seems like an all around cool dude.
Hes got an assfull of cash and not a care in the world, a great merican
Joel needs to come back more often. He seems like a Demo type of cool guy!! Thanks Joel AKA Mr. Wonderful.......
Who is Joel?
Who is this Joel guy? @@Gurd72
@@Gurd72 I thought that was the guy that loaned Matt these 2 guns and also had the rocket pistol.
This might be the only episode of something where you could potentially anger gun fans and sewing fans simultaneously. 😂
As someone that owns a 1911 AND a singer😂 I'm ok with this
@@anubian860 I own an 1911, and a Singer that is as old as that Singer 1911
Not to mention the collectors 😂😂😂
No one had ever said that exact line before.
...and Canadians 🤣
I've got to give you credit man, you make hilarious and most important unique intros on every single video. How you don't run out of ideas is beyond me.
The first 2 1911-s are still in service in hungary. I used to use them at my workplace, shooting and maintaining them was part of the job.
proving that they fire correctly actually improves their value, very nice guns
To some people yes but collectors absolutely not
yeah but usually they fire once or twice, and thats it.
This guy has watched some episodes of pawn stars
Maybe if it’s some 1700s musket that’s in terrible shape. A 1911 can almost be inspected and be determined whether it’ll work or not. I mean most firearms that would be the case, without actually firing them. It’s not rocket science.
@@ryanbreckenridge3785lol
There's no way I could be a collector of anything that can't be used. If it's something I want to collect, I want to use it, too! Glad to see y'all actually use these relics!
That's why I waited for the new colt pythons. The old ones can't get replacement parts and repairs from the factory, if not now, then certainly not in a few more years.
I collect coins that I wont use.
I think after these guns were fired at Demo-Ranch they are worth even more.
@@debragibson3489 I have some that I inherited and have thought about making a collection out of them.
Same.....recently acquired a super rare and old surfboard....it's gonna be ridden a LOT
The smiles on these boys faces saaays everything we need to know😊
My mother and grandmother were professional seamstresses, that collected vintage singer machines. My grandmother owned her own shop and was the personal seamstress for the mayor of Spokane and several other people, and my mom was a gun dealer who also collected rare firearms. My grandmother was an avid hunter, who also collected rare firearms. However, I've never heard of this. WHAT THE HELL!!!???
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That intro was so freaking funny classic love the video mat take care ❤❤
You know what I love? Run-on sentences.
Best I have seen redo of that weird Bentley thing.
I finally found the fudds guntubers make these long ass intros for. I was hoping you guys didn't exists
This opening beats my favourite so far. Which is from this podcast th-cam.com/video/KzgiZpCIj1c/w-d-xo.html.
@@MMOchAForPrez How, exactly, does enjoying a random 30 second joke intro make someone a "fudd"? Prejudicing against huge swaths of people for their own opinions makes you sound like a leftist. Grow up. If you don't like them then fast forward 30 seconds like an adult... or I guess just keep going to comment sections and insult people in order to make yourself feel superior, like a child.
I look at classic guns like classic cars. They are made to be used and personally think just sitting is worse for them than use and care. Great to see these getting love.
does depend a bit, the problem is getting parts can be hard and if you break a numbered part you significantly reduce the value. Luckily few numbered parts are common to break.
@Wehraboo I agree. Hopefully the person who possess such item WILL take care of it. Hence them being a loner. If they were my guns I'm gonna be there...😊
No because they are museum pieces. If we run every museum piece you can find, then it's going to ruin the education for future generations to witness so they'll never know what an original state would have looked like.
Not to mention that there are millions of 1911s in production and this old museum piece isn't going to make you shoot any better or differently.
If I found king Arthur's magical sword I'm not going to start bashing it against a steel shield and snap the sword in half because that's how it would have been used in battle
@@jason200912if it breaks in half against a shield it isn’t Excalibur
@@jason200912 if i found king arthurs sword i would totally slice stuff with it just bc it would b cool, guns are literally built to b shot its even cooler of their 100, 200, 300 years old. just because its a museum piece doesnt mean ya cant shoot it
I have always been a 1911 fan and this video just shows the quality of that guns mechanics, still running flawlessly.
When I was in the guard during the 90s my unit had a singer 1911 in the armory. I have always wondered what happened to it when we transitioned to the M9.
As a Canadian, I'm glad that beautiful gun is getting abused in Texas. It'd just be banned here :(
Well, the sale and transfer of it was. As soon as the gun owner who owned it passed, it would be destroyed...
I saw a video a while back where a store owner in the States had managed to purchase a couple hundred Lugers for Canada's RIGHT before the freeze. So, some guns have been saved.
Aa some one from California me too
as a canadian im just happy someone can shoot it
Raise up brother!
I'd say L+Ratio but I'm genuinely sad for you all. I hope you get your country back soon.
Singers and North American Arms 1911s always bring big money at auction! I love to see them preserved, but it is kinda fun to see them in action.
Fun fact: We had Singer SN #77 come through our doors in 2019. The North American Arms SN #93 we've never sold, but we have sold 23 others.
Love you guys at RIA, thank Ian extra much for educating me on all of your fantastic guns, if I were to get a chance to buy a coonan or something from you guys, I wouldn't miss a beat
This is awsome. This weekend I gained access to a Colt 1911A serial number says it was made in 1944. I cannot wait to put some rounds through it.
The intro was beyond epic!
Such an awesome video as always. Thanks.
Camera guy David, thank you for your camera work on these videos!!! And I love how Matt is letting you talk in the videos, hopefully one day you’ll be as included as Micah from Garand Thumb ❤
edit: It’s Garand, not Garland (thanks autocorrect)
Did Micah get into Christmas decorating?? 🤔🤔🧐
What's a Garland Thumb. Garand Thumb I think I know, but Garlands seem harmless, would never hurt your thumbs...
@@davidnicholas7516 oh my god you’re right, i should change that
Nah he should definitely talk infrequently, guy seems nice but doesn’t have the same presence
Forget Michah, I want Charlie back 😢
Make sure to drink water everyone stay hydrated
All I have is vodka is that ok?
stay hydrated like the 1911 at the end
Hands down best intro for anything. Marvelous, stupendous, masterful.
Hilarious.
My dad brought home his.45 from WWII and it rattled but shot true every time, I honestly don’t remember if he ever cleaned it. My mother accidentally gave it away to a plumber for work done and I tried to get it back but he said he had sold it. That still burns my butt every time I think about it.
THE PAIN.
I miss the days of getting guns for work done...
women should just not be allowed to touch or hold on to historic firearms.The amount of times I've seen/heard/experienced this story is unreal. My grandmother got rid of a transferable AK my grandfather brought back from Korea. Sold it for like 300 at a gun buyback or something.
@@MegadethTillDeththats scary,i
I wouldnt wish that on my enemies
bruh@@MegadethTillDeth
I love it, I happen to have an original Colt 1911 with a 5 digit SN, according to Colt that puts it made in 1914, was a Special order for an officer and passed down in the family and was gifted to me when the gentlemans Children didn't want a gun in the house (Yes they were Kalifornians) so it sits in an oiled case and will be passed down to my boys who want to fight over it, lol
they got no respect for their family history
Appreciate the shoutout, Matt! Much love from us to you ❤
Gun was made to be shot. Love to see these pieces of history getting some use. Beautiful pieces. The Singer sounds so SNUG when you put a mag in!
That's amazing! after all these years they still work fine.
Today I am having a rough mental health day so when I saw you had a new video, I got super excited can't wait for the next one thanks for being so positive!
You got this man!
Keep your head up, brighter days ahead
Can we all agree this man’s intros are always the best😂❤️
Quick History with Link!: The North American Arms 1911 was originally produced in Canada as a faster, easier way to punch holes in our maple trees to get to the maple syrup! They found it was also a great hammer for breaking apart the giant ice blocks for smaller more manageable blocks to make our igloos. 🎵*The more you know*🎵
Bro. I've lost count at how many of your videos I've watched. This intro is hands down the best yet. I'm dying right now.
Been watching the channel for years being from the UK always thought I'd never be able to have a gun, recently got into clay shooting and I'm loving it. Would love to see matt do it.
I have my grandfather's 1911 from the Korean War, and it is in really good condition, we took it to the range all the time when I was a kid but now it's in a nice glass case
The intro was hilarious! Thanks!!
I've had a long day and that intro had me in stitches!
Fun fact - in Poland's there's a company producing sewing machines - it's called Lucznik (Archer) - aand - they also produced a variety of arms.
having a bunch of headaches with my old sewing machine time to time, i can see how the manufacturing skill translates into firearms lol
I am currently sitting home, getting ready to go through chemo/radiation. I'm currently on medical leave from work and am not doing a whole lot of anything while waiting. Your videos always make me smile.
Stumbled across this comment, just wanted to wish you good luck man.
Good luck to you. Fight the good fight.
Get well soon my man
Edit: I am gonna pray for you, the good lord will help you through the tough times
Thank you from everyone with the well wishes. Didn't want to detract from the video. Just wanted Matt to know his videos, from Demo Ranch and Off The Ranch, a well appreciated.
You’ve got this man keep your head up you’ve got this community behind your back🖐🏻
This was beautiful thank you for firing these items from history
The intro is the best .... made my day😂
This intro was fucking hilarious!! Great content as usually!!
Honestly to see them working flawlessly probably increased their value, not to mention seeing the singer having a different ejection than a typical 1911 is interesting
I pray
MAY YOU HAVE 50M soon ❤❤❤
You make me smile every time with your funny jokes ❤
Thanks for the chuckle....
The first 1911 I was issued [USMC 84] was made by Remington Rand in WWII. Managed to qual expert with it.
I visited a gun collector in Belgium who lived in a castle. He showed me various very rare guns including the hunting rifle of King Ludwig of Bavaria (the one who built Neu Schwanstein). The barrel is made of damask steel and there are beautiful carvings on it and the wood. I played around with it for about 30 minutes. I wonder how much that gun is worth.
Very likely priceless.
I'm glad you started it by showing the cheaper versions of those guns so I never wondered if you were actually using the expensive ones for the abuse gags. I could just enjoy the jokes as jokes and not be horrified.
At least we hope
My thoughts exactly
That intro is perfect!
Thank you!
OMFG that skit in the beginning! That's the funniest thing I've seen in months!
I once found a pre A1 1911 complete with its Abbercrombie and Fitch 19-teens holster and belt under a loose stair at a friend's home. He didn't know it was there. Talk about exciting.
Look ma, I found the ai
That opening was GREAT!
Hahahahahaha
The beginning of the video is great.
That was a hilarious start to an episode.
Cool old guns, glad you got to shoot them i know people love collecting them but i think they need to be used now and again as well.
I can understand why some really old guns are not fired for safety and metallurgy reasons but i thought it was pretty cool to see them used. Same with the gyrojet guns.
agree, which is why I also like to shoot all my old guns, even if only a box though it. like my T14 japanese nambu. that said I don't really have plans to ever shoot it again but if any of my friends wanted too i'd find another box of 8mm nambu and let them try it.
It's also why I tend to buy more "shooter grade" guns than the crazy collectable ones, my LP08, my P08, both nice guns, one refinished and the other is just a bit beat.
I had researched some on Singer. They could produce the parts to build 100 a day but getting qualified smiths to fit and assemble properly was the issue. A shortage of labor (as we all know from history books) so they failed to meet the quota.
Loved Baddie's reaction to the water pour
My SA GI model ejects shells straight over my head or into my forehead too - love it
We all value quality- and that 'Singer runs like a sewing machine'. Doesn't matter how much it costs, the value of quality and reliability is worth every penny.
The oldest 1911 I fired was a nickel plated Colt from 1953. A friend let me borrow it for a weekend. I have a scar between my thumb and index finger where the slide kept biting me. I cleaned it for him btw.
Hands down the best intro like ever!!!
1911 one of the most beautiful hand guns ever made I love Hitman's 1911s 😍
How did you NOT do an M1 *Ping* in that opening bit?
AHH!!! missed opportunity for sure!
@@Demo_Camera_Guyyep. That would have been the perfect match against her crystal ping. It is so obvious now that it is pointed out. Still, this is the best response video I have seen to that goofy thing.
@@Demo_Camera_Guy
Damnit 🤦♂️! Tell your boss to get his 💩 together 😆
For $500k they better come with a perfect credit score and their own 401k
That's what 500k gets you 😆
They are your 401k
In 30yr these will be worth millions
@@kapower06or a prison sentence because we are living under communist rule.
By the end of the Biden administration these will be worth millions
Ok the contrast between the sound of flicking the emblem and the scope cover was amazing
Best intro of all time gun tuber history!
I really like 1911s.
It looks so simple, yet timeless. There's a reason they still exist. Would love to own one.
Polymer pistols have their place and I like them, but pistols without plastic are just awesome.
@@trollolol705I personally think that polymer pistols are better for everyday carry, but steel pistols feel much nicer. I'm a huge CZ fan, though (steel).
Polymer, I would go with a Walther P99.
I hope you get to buy your SIG back!
@@hansgans297or canik, it's a pdp clone but better in many ways
To this day a 1911 is the quintessential silhouette I think of in my mind when I think of a handgun.... A close runner-up being a beretti M9..... For some reason it's always just stuck with me as what a handgun is meant to look like
@@Demertechnever heard of Canik. I'll look into it.
@@JivedSonenI really like the 1911 because of it's design. It's so simple. We have a saying here in Germany. "Weniger ist mehr". Less is more. The 1911 doesn't need flashy or tacky design elements to look good. Beretta M9 look good as well, but I personally am not a huge fan. I don't know why, though. Just a feeling. CZs are amazing, too. But the best grip I have ever felt on a gun was with a P99. This thing fits my hand like a glove.
It’s the smallest things… the gun falling at the end of the intro
😂
At 105 years old with 0 replacement parts.... you come back and tell me how your wonder 9 holds up.
@@jonathanlunger2775 metal + time = warpage.
quality metal has sat in a yard for the grain to settle, then machined, quenched, and then left to settle again.
That’s nuts
Great job
That’s gotta be one of the best intros I’ve seen u so loved the ended of it
I have no idea what is going on in pop culture, nor do I care to. You somehow make the joke funny enough to laugh at even for ppl like me. Ty sir.
You're uploading warzone 2 videos, wtf you mean don't care about pop culture? I smell cap
@@tenderonibaloney8854, oh no. You caught me.
Those guns are expressing the sounds of freedom and constitutional rights. That is absolutely priceless.
Dual wielding 1911's just reminded me of Last Man Standing, with Bruce Willis. Badass.
Joel is a legend for letting you just manhandle these 😂
The coolest 1911s in the world, are the Norwegian "lunch-box Colts" - Kongsberg Våpenfabrikk made licensed copies of the 1911 before the war, then when Germany occupied Norway, production was forced to continue. The workers in the factory smugled out pistols in parts in their lunch boxes and gave them to the Norwegian resistance. These guns have no markings or serial numbers but are such an incredible part of Norwegian history.
You should hunt down the only full auto colt 1911 from the factory, I knew the colt Museum sold it a couple of years back at an auction. That would be a really cool video!
Just recently my grandfather just passed, and upon moving things out of his house my dad and I came across a Argentina colt 1927 chambered in .45. Crazy to think I have 1 of only 10,000 made by colt before it was contracted with Argentina to make the exact same gun
Yo I got the same fmap 1927 Argentinian do you know where to get magazine or if it works with ballaster Molina magazines?
That’s awesome to know my homeland made colt 1911s albeit a very limited run but it’s cool to say there’s Canadian Colt 1911s non the less
Matt your intro's are the best and always have been!!!
Joel is a freaking legend!!
Hmm you must not know him personally.
You appear to have some kind of issue with the man, are you his ex?. @@annabanana1279
This is a bad day for me and you have brought a smile to my face Thank You Matt.
You good, man?
@@rodgersmith1573 I’m good the 15th of September is the anniversary of my wife passing, now two years I don’t know if it will get any easier. Thank you for asking.👍
Saw the LVNDMARK episode the other day, for someone who is constantly on camera, he was super awkward. Baddie on the other hand, had some damn good on-screen presence, and seems to work well in tandem with Demo. Good shtuff Baddie. You have come a long ways my dude.
this has to be one of the best cold opens in a while, i had to work not to spit out my coffee
As a historical gun nut, does It suck that "unessicary" wear and tear has now been placed in irreplaceable relics? Yes. But, it's also amazing that that wear and tear was done with care and that it allowed more public information and experience with said relics to be available to such a wide audience so worth in my opinion
I love your content and you are my favorite youtuber matt
Lasting that long and still functioning those guns were really tailored well they do deserve an epic moment, hey Matt how's do you have a special gun kept away somewhere that you don't shoot but you just keep for the future? Maybe 50 years from now it will also coat a lot. Good showing though thanks.👍👍👍👍
I never knew that about Singer. I have a Singer pedal powered sewing machine from the 1920's and it still works just fine. I wish I could see that pistol.
I almost thought you done went and bought some Cabots when I first saw the title. Haha mammoth ivory handles and 24k gold sights. Beautiful guns, guns, I'll never see in my lifetime 😂
Cabots are made about an hour from where I live! Amazing guns
@adamrosenhamer3762 It's a dream just to hold one, even if it's the meteorite ones. As you said amazing guns.
I would literally have all my guns AND all Canadian guns go to the U.S. Where folks like you can actually appreciate them than turn them into the gov't. We're hurting bad up here in the North. NEVER give up your 2A
Hide them and protect them at all costs. I am almost at the bottom of the US but I wish I could help you hide them. If I were at the Northern border you would have a safe house for storage until the day of reckoning were at hand.
We will fight for our second amendment if you bring them across the border people would be glad to hold them for you until Trudeau is out of office.
Sell all your shit and come to the US for asylum. Not only are the borders open, but you have a rare legitimate claim under international asylum law.
Start burying them. And if you have any ancient unregistered guns you’re in a good place. Don’t let those Communist bastards take anything away.
So many people would assist you in keeping your armaments brother. I know it in my heart, keep fighting your fight man and try to stay strong
I worked in sewing machine repair out of high school back in the late 2000s... i would have loved to see one of those brought in for repairs.
Oooooh my gosh that was one of the best introductions eeever!