[Gaffer]

I’d like to make a comment here. I own quite a bit of pistols. I have multiple 1911s, multiple Berettas, multiple Glocks, Brownings, Sigs, Rugers, and many others.

My only comment is that what will the reputation and withstanding of the eventual winner 100 years from now?

I certainly have some that old (and from WWII) and they still shoot well. Still viable. Frankly, I have no idea of what some kind of polymer sidearm will do and how it will withstand. My gut tells me not. Not in the sense of the beating and time-tested endurance steel has.

We shall see, I guess, but I won’t live long enough to find out. :0)

[Farmer Dean]

I have a 1911 that was given to me by the WW1 vet who carried it in the Argonne.It shoots as well as the day it left the factory.

[riverrunner]

Leave a polymer frame and a steel frame out in the weather and see what one is use in able in month.

[ctdonath2]

“I have no idea of what some kind of polymer sidearm will do and how it will withstand.”

The quintessential & (practically) original polymer sidearm is the Glock 17. Subject to a few minor tweaks, it has proven durable & reliable for several decades.

Methinks we do indeed have an idea of what some kind of polymer sidearm will do and how it will withstand.