I qualified expert with the Army’s Colt .45 automatic. Not an easy feat when you consider that the weapons we used were so old that the barrels rattled in the carriage and the targets had been shot so many times they had holes big enough to put your fist through. I was convinced that I would have had a better chance to qualify by throwing the damn thing at the target rather than shooting at it.
That’s one of the few weapons I was never required to qualify with and I was a 111. I bought a commercial Colt Government Md in the sixties and still have it. They are a fine weapon if one takes the time to learn to shoot it.