My, my. How times have changed.

Or actually, it is the ammunition, the engineering, and the attitude that have changed.

Forty-five, fifty years ago, getting 9mm to function in Ol' Slabsides was a journey of trial and error with much agony and frustration. Now there are so many good, well-made and reliable 9mm/1911's available that it makes that time seem like another century.

Wait - it was.