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Yes, the 1911 is a great gun, but today there are many great handguns in various calibers. Bullet technology is light years improved from the days of Sgt. York and this makes many guns as good as or better than what York carried.

Really?

So, besides a .50 Desert Eagle, what competes with a .45 JHP 230 grain?

A 9mm?

A .40?

A .22?

Ya, but there are so many who just can’t break out of the past or who just dont know any better. The 1911 and 45acp arent The Silver Bullet their followers imagine them to be. In fact the platform and cartridge are toward the bottom of the barrel. Really, its not about platform or cartridge as much as it is ability to properly place hits in a timely fashion.

Yes, the M1911 is a great design. There are a ton of other pistols that will do the same job the old M1911 does. However, each and everyone of them is always compared to the old M1911 pistol as the baseline when the claims naming a new “wonder pistol” are made. Why, because of the M1911’s reputation for flawless reliability and stopping power.

I personally like the single action feature of this pistol, its safeties, and I own three of them: 1) a WW2 M1911A1 Colt; 2) a Para-Ordnance P13.45 (a 14 shot double stack .45); and 3) Colt Combat Commander .45 Series 70. If I had to choose my “go to war” pistols, my choices would be: 1) my P-O P13.45 as first choice and 2) my Canadian Inglis No. 2 Mk I* 9mm Browning Hi-Power as a close second.

Yes I have others and have used others, but I always come back to the M1911.

There are those that say the .45 is inaccurate. However, it was accurate enough to shoot down a Japanese Zero fighter. B-24 pilot Owen Baggett shot down a Japanese Zero fighter over Burma in March 1943. Baggett became a Japanese POW in Singapore and finally retired as an Air Force colonel. Here: http://www.sdheroes.com/?p=2600