Hi gun enthusiasts,
No doubt .45 cal, 8 rounds magazine and 1911 are a match from haven but there other semi-autos that would and do, make a any 1911 look a dinosaur...!
Has mentioned, I used 2 .45cal 1911, for many years, had the 9mm 9/21mm and then I went to the rolls royce of semi-autos handguns, a custom made Caspian in 38 super, put together by one of the best handgun gunsmith's in Australia, interestingly from Adelaide, at the time I was in the NT (Northern Territory).
This end-up being the gun that gave me the best results ever in the serious competition that I was deeply involved, the International IPSC Tactical Shooting Confederation. My biggest limitation was the guns I did use initially, but at the same time they gave me the practice in the hard way, and the skills to better tools. I had great success as a R.O. and as a firearms instructor (handguns and long rifle, up to fully automatic firearms) but my competition handgun shooting went a few levels up, as soon as I started to use it in competitions.
This thing had a round capacity of 21, all internal parts were titanium, including the trigger frame and ambidestras safety, 9 whole port compensator, a PDP4 on top, and many other modification/additions I made for it. Handgun with 4 double stack caspian magazines only, very close to $9.000, special holster, mag holders and belt, another $1.000.
Now that I think about it, the amount of rounds I shot every Sunday (Club day) and the 200 rounds a day practice, at least 2 weeks before competition...!
I was shotting also "Major Power factor" which means the rounds were loaded with a higher load (like magnum) in revolvers, so the power and velocity of those projectiles were scary. That and the speed that gun could empty a full magazine with nearly pin point accuracy, has to be seen, well it was, many, many times by thousands of people! Oh...great times I had...!:biggrin:
Cheers
George
