I inherited my grandfather’s 1911 that he carried in France during WW 1. The date stamp on it is 1913. Still fires like new. Sometime back in the 30’s, my great grandmother saw a rat in their clawfoot bathtub. She calmly retrieved the 1911 and shot the rat, blowing a huge hole in the back of the tub.
Very lucky not to have been killed by lead flung right back at her. A real dumb user of it.