Gun that put those 230-grain pills right on the sights whenever I did my No big sights, no checkering or fancy finishes-just a big. To be honest, I'dįorgotten what a great pistol a basic 1911A1 is-no oversized safeties, I perforated a few targets with the new gun too (50-yard groups ranĪbout five to six inches), but for the most part I simply enjoyedĬrumbling dirt clods on the 50-yard berm. Through the huge holes in the driftwood target. Of thumbing thoseįat cartridges into the magazine (I thought they looked as big asĪnti-aircraft shells), and of kneeling in the sand, poking my finger Of paddling out to the islands to try 'er out.
Test firing brought me back to my first GI-surplus 1911. Little horizontal movement but almost no vertical slop. My sample Auto-Ord 1911 is fitted better than any GI-issue pistol Laughridge of Cylinder & Slide has tested these guns, and he reports And those improvements aren't just on the outside. Has improved dramatically since the purchase of the company by KahrĪrms. The Auto-Ordnance 1911s are not exactly new, however their quality This same pistol built exactly as they were 60 yearsĪgo would have to sell for two or three times as much. Wrong with that? It's modern production methods that make these There, and the barrel is of two-piece construction, but what's If the design is pure 1944, a close look shows the manufacturing Improve last round feeding, and the ejector is slightly extended toīetter toss empties out the port, but there's no firing pin safety Yes, the furnished magazine does have a round follower to On the inside, the Auto-Ordnance 1911A1 looks to be pretty much The parkerized finish is a little different color from the wartime guns, The magazine well is slightly beveled, and The grasping grooves areĪngled rather than square to the slide, and the polished barrel hood The ones our fighting men carried in Normandy. 45 ACR WWII."įrom the outside, only a few details distinguish this pistol from Rather it's brand new, made by Auto-Ordnance and Television and radio broadcasts areįilled with accounts of the desperate and heroic events of 1944, as well Retrieved from Īs I write this it is the sixth of June. Auto-Ordnance WWII 1911A1." Retrieved from 2004 Publishers' Development Corporation 04 Dec.
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