[papertyger]

It needs to be man handled to be effective. Don't treat it timidly.

What the hell does that mean? Any weapon that requires more weight of effort to fire than the weight of the actual weapon *requires* a certain finesse.

[central_va]

It needs to be man handled to be effective. Don't treat it timidly.

If you treat it timidly and let the recoil push you around it will jam. The energy of the recoil( and there is lot comparatively speaking) has to be transmitted back to the weapon by the shooter. Revolvers do not have this issue. In a combat situation if you let your weapon jam you will be dead. Combat requires no finesse at all.

There are better weapons(cheaper ammo) than the .45 for plinking paper targets with one eye shut trying to group.

Having said that you can pry my M1911 from my cold dead hands,