45 ACP pistol, books could be written of the newer designs that came along only to disappear because they could not compete with the original.

Sometimes it is not: in the case of the 101-year-old M1911. There is a common perception that design and technology advance with time, that every new model must, by some natural law, be better than its predecessor. As full disclosure, we should note that, among many of us old GIs who were issued the 1911A1 for everyday carry, familiarity and confidence bred a lot of preference, and this admittedly may come at the cost of some objectivity. Many of these are new iterations of the M1911, and some are new designs, ones in this caliber by other makers. Without tiptoeing into the interminable debate (of course, we would never want to be shot with a 9mm), we will simply note that, in the recent past and today, those troops whose mission depends on a pistol will often opt for a. Recent combat experience tends to reinforce the comparative advantage of. It’s just hard to argue, even with the best scientific sophistry, with a cartridge that has a 100-year track record of knocking ’em stiff.

It has an unsurpassed record as a fight stopper, whether you measure a round’s efficacy by the Marshall-Sannow or Fackler (or even Elmer Keith) method of accounting. 45 ACP is a round that is frankly hard to argue with. 45 ACP continues as a winning, if not unbeatable, combination.

45 ACP, and Colt and a legion of copyists made the M1911 design in all the usual calibers, but the M1911 in. A hundred years later, other handguns are being made in. We find this particularly interesting because, back in “the day,” the M1911 Colt had two features no other gun could compete with: best-friend reliability and the incomparable. Today, it competes with a new generation of double-action, high-capacity autoloaders in the same git-’er-done. 45 ACP competed favorably with a whole new generation of “Wondernines,” which came to the fore after WWII. During the transition of the great police wheelgun, the 1911. A list of quality makers currently producing the basic 1911 design would fill a page in a phone book. This inherently flawless (a term preferred over “classic”) pistol has been used by some three dozen other countries and copied by more makers in various calibers, tweaks and iterations that you can count. 45 ACP has been known by many names, and virtually every one is synonymous with “stalwart.”

45 ACP has been an issued sidearm-and a preferred one, even today-for American GIs.

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