Today's .45 ACP in the 1911 format has withstood the test of time designed by renowned firearm inventor John Browning.
Nearly 100 years ago, this man is deserving of a US National Holiday.
It was John Browning's firearms that greatly helped America win the World Wars I & II. His firearm designs also seeing action in Korea, Vietnam and by Special Forces in Desert Storm and the present Iraq War. With earlier wars also.
The Browning BMG is another of J. Browning's many fine firearms revolutionary in its day.
Kimber Mfg. is the reason for the resurgent of today's modern .45 ACP 1911's with their crisp trigger, medium recoil and safety features. Let us not forget the big knock down power also of the .45 ACP. Kimbers early controversial times due to inside board member larceny and near bankruptcy. Kimber fortunately survived and progressed in 1998 moving from Oregon to Yonkers, NY to its new facility and began making quality hand fitted 1911's with many other companies soon following and enjoying the profits of the resurgence of the .45 ACP which is still going strong today. The early Kimber's are a rare find and truly superior to some of today's Kimbers Series II guns.
Owning a quality 1911 often gives a person a disease a good one but causing you to want more 1911's that you keep for life and pass down through generations, a truly addictive firearm. With many fine 1911 manufactures and one of USA's best gunsmith shops being in Fremont, NE Cylinder and Slide. There is an abundance of different barrel lengths, frame sizes, grips, sights, trigger and other accessories to customize your 1911 to your liking by yourself or have a qualified gunsmith due the work.
Its short comings are few if any; it would be there slim profile limiting the magazine capacity to 8+1. Today's 1911 manufactures quality tooling providing very tight tolerances, achieving great accuracy, a crisp trigger and reliability one often does not need more bullets with the 1911. If need be one could always carry one extra magazine and if you cannot get it done in 16+1 than you may need to practice more. This slimness is an advantage to smaller sized hands. By just changing to slim grips measuring 5/32 of an inch versus the standard grip measuring 1/4 of an inch even the young adult male/female can comfortable shoot a 1911. Also a full sized 5" barreled 1911 can be concealed and has been by one of our members during summer softball coaching (legally CCP holder).
In my opinion many Pros and few Cons.
