My S&W M745 IPSC gun.

If we're talking box-stock non custom non high $ versions, here's mine:

For over 20 years my best performer was a 70 series Gold Cup.

Then I favored a Kimber Custom Target because of slightly better groups.

Lately the star performer has been a DW CBOB.

Had lots of 1911s, most were not keepers.

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Early 1980's a fellow unit commander was getting ready to change command and needed help with some property-He had lost some equipment-anyway-I gave him enough so that he could clear his books-Short time later he gave me a Colt Commander NIB as payback-Over the years I've tricked the gun out-Shoots like a rifle. His X-wife had given the gun to him. End of story.

Well, I like them all but I bet my life on my M&P 45ACP. Before that a Glock 21C, and before that my 4506 (no dash).

I have a S&W 1911 that is the most accurate gun out of the box I have ever known.

Did I mention that I like them all?

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I really enjoy shooting my HK 45. Very accurate.

You guys with your nice 1911'a are makin' me envious!!!

I've only got a M&P .45, but I certainly do like it .... Can't wait to get my own 1911..

Hi:
#1- S&W Model 28 4" converted to .45acp
#2- Glock Model 21 .45acp
Both are "Plain Jane's" but 100% reliable and accurate.
The S&W has been with me since I was young and pretty, which is a long, long time ago.

MY IS MY OWN 1991A1 CUSTOM BUILT MY ME==

Hard to pick a favorite, they're all very nice: S&W 1911Sc, Kimber 1911 Tactical, Les Baer Premier II, S&W 4506, STI 2011 4.15 Tactical, but maybe today the S&W 945 takes the first place:

I have a US issue mint condition Governmen Colt 1911. I bought it back in the 1960's through the NRA. It may have been refinished by the government, but it appears new and all parts are correct. I paid $17 plus shipping for the pistol. I have never shot it and to be honest, I hate to pull the slide back because I don't want to ruin the finish. I have had many people offer to buy it from me for what I paid for it. NO IT IS NOT FOR SALE

3 inch 625 im in the market for a 1911

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Since this is my only .45 auto, I guess its my favorite. It is a 1942 production remington-rand. It was highly worked over by pachmeyer in the 1950s or 1960s. It has micro barrel & bushing, micro sights, been finely checkered on the front & backstraps etc. It is accurate and dependable.

old sig-built browning bda. it is a jewel.

The Model of 1911 is my choice

My custom Springfield Mil-Spec 1911 my favorite of my small collection. I just picked up a Colt XSE Commander thats quickly prooving to be a keeper. It will also end up as a custom in the near future.

It took a long time to find this one. It's a Springfield Armory Trophy Match Long Slide. It's been tuned and is a lot more accurate than I am.

I would absolutely love it if they would make a companion in a deep lustrous blue!

I guess I'm "poor man" on this thread. I only have one .45, but it's a good one, a Lackland AFB accuracy job. I have no other knowledge of its pedigree. It was built for me in late 1966 while I was temporarily assigned to Detroit Edison. At that time, I only knew about bullseye competition, had a 38 spcl Colt Gold Cup (with a rough trigger), and had to borrow a .45 to shoot a complete match.

The day I got my .45, I fired indoors at 50 ft (5 rds per target, one hole destroying the 10 ring). The "quality check" I got was the fellow standing beside me offered to trade a Clark Long-Slide for it. I said, "No thank you".

I immediately sold my Gold Cup to a policeman in Farmington, Michigan. He'd been really helpful in getting me "legal". I'd driven into the state with my handguns. After he had the trigger smoothed-out, he called me to see if I could drop by the station and see his latest "bragging target". It was better than any I'd fired.

I like my CS45....

Best is my Kimber CDP Custom. Most carried is my Colt Double Eagle. Last to be sold is the $17 CMP Ithaca that Dad worked over the day it arrived. I cannot tell the difference in the triggers between the Kimber and the Ithaca.

Regards,

Tam 3

like my 1911 govermnet mod. and my 25-2 6 1/2 "
severd me well in Nam

Greetings, All,

My very first .45ACP was a Sig P220, and it was, and remains, super accurate, and able to feed and function with just about any ammo I'd care to use. Back then, it would NOT do well with the first generation of Federal Hydra-shock stuff, however. I hear that the latest of such ammo is much better in aluminum framed guns, so I'll have to give it a try and see.

Later, I needed a pistol that was a bit easier to conceal, and would stand up better to sweat. Ended up with an Enhanced Series 80 Colt Lightweight Officer's ACP, which I sent to Terry Tussey for a trigger job and a few other things, including a nice industrial hard-chrome job on the slide. The trigger then broke at a very crisp 3 1/2 lbs, and that little pistol has been my constant companion, and trusted friend, for many long years, now, and it's still perking along just fine!!

Last, I developed a yearning for an all steel .45 Colt, and ended up buying a NIB Colt 1991A1 .45ACP. It's not fancy, but I must say that it's exceedingly accurate, and has never jammed, or malfunctioned, even right out of the box. The extra weight is a blessing and curse, though: It holds and shoots like a dream, with far less buck and roar then the little Officer's ACP. But, it's also too darned big and heavy to carry much, especially with a tender back!! So, the little Colt still gets the nod, and works just as it has all these years, flawlessly!!

For what it's worth, I did flirt with buying a Glock sub-compact .45 ACP, but already had a Model 27 .40 S&W and found there was only scant difference in size, between the two pistols. Stuck with the M27, as it already worked well for me. Take care, Merry Christmas and God Bless!

Every Good Wish,
Doc

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just pick this up today.....first gun of this style...most of my guns are tatical like glock or my xds. i dont know much about it other than its a smith....any input would be great...all it came with was a clip and a box.

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Both I have built by Toyota. Hardball and wad.

My 20 year old 4506...the best of the best.

My newest .45auto, a fine american pistol that feeds JHP and shoots POA all day long. A good value for the dollar$.

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What's my favorite .45 Auto? The Government Model that was stolen from me.

My own current favorite is the Dan Wesson CBob, a commander sized incredibly accurate 1911 style. I thought the bobbed grip frame was just a sales gimmick until I tried 'em out.

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I've been a wheel gun man all my life, smiths, colts, rugers. Recently my son talked me into buying a springfield armory 45 ss 5 in bbl. It's been a blast to shoot and carry. But deep down a wheel gun still has a place in my heart.

My favorite .45 Auto has evolved. As I began shooting handguns while in college in the mid 1970's, I became attracted to the writings of Jeff Cooper. The Colonel's thoughts were so logical. I tried a few folks .45's and ended up buying a new Colt Gold Cup in 1979. I really, really liked that pistol.

The Para-Ordnance came out. At first, you couldn't buy a whole gun. You bought a kit that consisted of a frame and the unique widebody parts needed to make it work, like the magazines, trigger, mag catch and a few others. I then scrounged up a stripped Colt Combat Government slide from Ashland Shooters Supplies, the same as the standard Government slide except it had bigger, blockier fixed sights and an opened ejection port. I continued to try to find the bits needed to complete the gun. When I did, it wasn't totally reliable even with factory ball. Needed tuning.

I decided to attend Cooper's Gunsite pistol class, A.P.I. 250, on his ranch outside of Paulden, Arizona in March of 1987. I needed a gun, a .45, a 1911. I took the top end I had ready for my Para-Ordnance, the barrel, slide, bushing, firing pin and spring, and took them to Danny Woo, a talented gunsmith working in my town. (The early editions of the Std. Cat. of S&W were dedicated to Danny, as well as others). Danny fit the slide and barrel to each other and then to my Gold Cup frame. The frame already had a fine trigger pull. This weapon did me very good during the week-long class. It did chew up the skin on my hands a bit, and after a coule of days, the gunsmith at Gunsight did a subtle meld job and it became much friendlier. I fired probably 750 or 800 rounds through it during the week. The guy that beat me in the Saturday morning man-on-man shoot with the pepper-poppers ended up winning the whole shoot-off.

I was really happy with the fixed-sight/Cup, but finally finished putting the Para Ordnance gun together and the original target-sighted upper back on the Gold Cup. The Colt is still the better gun of the two.

My department was still mired in the age of revolvers, so my 1911's took a lot of time off. Finally, in 1991, we elected a new Sheriff that was determined to bring our department forward. He allowed a wide range of makes and models of sidearms, in 9mm, 10mm, .40 and .45 ACP. My choice was clear, a stainless steel full size Colt Government Model in .45 for uniform patrol. I packed that gun every day for 5 years and then went into detectives, where something smaller and lighter might proove useful.

Colt had made a small batch of an aluminum custom frame Commander with a silver anodized frame and stainless steel barrel, slide and other non-standard parts, like a beavertail grip safety. They called it the "Custom Carry Commander". I bought one and soon learned to love the full size grip and shorter barrel and slide and the much, much lesser way it tugged down my pants belt.

A short time later, Colt began to ship standard production lightweight stainless Commanders. I bought one, figuring 2 similar guns is always a good idea. I put Trijicon night sights on it. I shot a few 100% qualification scores with it.

One fine December morning, armed with that stainless Lightweight Commander, I interrupted a couple of sports involved in robbing a bank and kidnapping a teller. They both attempted to shoot me, but the silver Colt spoke with much more authority, and both I and the bank teller became extraordinarily fond of the Commander. The ventilated robbers, not so much.

I decided it needed a name. Many people give their inanimate possessions names; they call their pickup truck "Old Blue" if it's blue, they call their motorcycle "Old Widowmaker." I have never done that, but I then split from tradition and christened the Commander to be henceforth named as "S. P." Pronounced as "Espie." Some asked if that was short for "Esparanza," but I said, no, it is the intials that stand for ''Substantial Penalty," as in "substantial penalty for early withdrawal," which the banks exact for taking your money out before you should.

Yep, the lovely Colt on my hip these days, in uniform or plainclothes, or off-duty, is a sweetheart named "S.P."

I keep thinking that S.P. wil always be my favorite .45 Auto, but while it has the greatest sentimental attachment, I am afraid that the coolest .45 I have, the one I would tote daily if permitted, would be my Model 945. It works just like my beloved Colt 1911's, but feels just a smidge different. It is one of the first seventy 945's made, RSA00XX. It is a 5 inch gun. The slide serrations are a functional and attractive fish scale pattern. It has a Bomar rear sight buried in the slide, a tuned Videcki trigger, and shoots way better than I can.

If I could only keep one .45, I would weep as S.P. went down the river, but I would clasp my 945 close to my bosom. It's my favorite .45 Auto.

Ed Brown Kobra 5" for it's beauty and flawless functionality and a Colt Commander that I carried on and off the job for 35 years... without a hiccup or other problem.

So hard to pick favorites, but I really like my Colt Special Combat Government, in hard chrome finish:

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Kimber. I liked them well enough to have bought 3 of them

A blue, pre series 70 Combat Commander.

Para-Ord Tac-S. Commander sized, single stack, .45ACP w/ their LDA action. Keep Shootin'

Sig 220 45ACP 5 Inch Match

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Colt Lightweight Commander. Absolutely stock, except for Trijicon sights, very little finish remaining, Pachmayer rubber grips.

It shoots well enough; accurate, and have never had a problem with it in several decades of use.

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1911's in general
I dislike Tupperware guns. If bad happens and a round blows the chamber, those hot gasses are headed in the general direction of your hands. With some honest steel between those gasses and your hands, you have a far better chance of keeping your hands.
Yes there are other steel framed 45's and yes many of them of great merit. but with every out of the box gun, enough nitpicking scrutiny will uncover things about any gun you'd like to see changed.
1911 is the ford mustang of the auto loader world.
If you dont like it .. grab the torque wrench and change it.
no other auto has the range of custom parts of the 1911 ... if it cant be made your perfect piece, you ask the impossible

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Colt 1911. There are no others.

For now its my Taurus PT1911 , bought for my birthday and its my favorite open carry gun . Hits what I point it at and its been quite reliable . I also had a Firestar 45 that was a blast to shoot but darn the muzzle blast out of that il pistol was fierce !

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Colt all the way in 1911s. Hard to pick just one, but I carry my Defender more than any and I shoot it almost as much as my Commander. It would be hard to pick which was my favorite. BTW, I had a Sig 220, but my son wanted it a few years ago so he has it now.

My Dan Wesson Pointman 7

Decisions, decisions....

John

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My Sig 220ST with my Star PD in close second.

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The civilian model 1911A1 manufactured in 1932 that I gave to my son. It'll digest any 45ACP we put thru it.
A Colt Commander given to me by a fellow Infantry Officer after I helped him with some property book problems. It's tricked out-also will take any .45 ACP ..its accuracy far exceeds my skill.

My favorite is the 4566. Great ergonomics (for me) with the Houge wood grips.

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Paladin, hows that liberator shoot ? no singer 1911 ?

Now that's the way to do .45 ACP, Paladin.

Pre War 1911 my father bought with his first pay check after graduating from the University of Alabama in 1936.

Rule 303

My favorite road trip 45 is a Sig 220 (kc date).

My first was a 4506-1 that I still own and the other is a newly purchased S&W 1911 with Crimson Trace grips. Both are SS and both meet my expectations.

LTC

I've fired 3 shots with the Liberator - all keyholed through the target at very short range.

No Singer. Way out of my price range - would have to take out a second mortgage for one!

John

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