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Those of you familiar with the 1911 know. It's military trials, it's supreme combat record... Anyone familiar with the Leatherslap competitions Jeff Cooper started in Big Bear, CA in the 1950s, his move to Arizona in the late '60s to establish what became the world-famous Gunsite school, his books, his columns for Guns & Ammo and with his Commentaries know the story. Any devotee of the 1911-pattern pistol needs not be convinced. Obsolete? Hardly. The J.M. Browning design continues to flourish 115 years on.
That said, The stories never get old. Here's just one of the many:
http://myweb.cebridge.net/mkeithr/Jeff/jeff1_5.html
Please share your favorite tales of this obsolete, irrelevant and immaterial pistol design, if you'd be so inclined. Thanks in advance.
Those of you familiar with the 1911 know. It's military trials, it's supreme combat record... Anyone familiar with the Leatherslap competitions Jeff Cooper started in Big Bear, CA in the 1950s, his move to Arizona in the late '60s to establish what became the world-famous Gunsite school, his books, his columns for Guns & Ammo and with his Commentaries know the story. Any devotee of the 1911-pattern pistol needs not be convinced. Obsolete? Hardly. The J.M. Browning design continues to flourish 115 years on.
That said, The stories never get old. Here's just one of the many:
Jeff Cooper Commentaries, August, 1993
Recently a [Gunsite] family member (who does not wish his name broadcast since he is a full-time lawman) was in attendance at a military smallarms school. This was considered an elite organization to which only the crème de la crème were invited. It was conducted by the Defense Department, which might have put us on the alert.
When our friend showed up for work with his 1911 it was immediately explained to him by the teachers at the school that what he was carrying was obsolete, irrelevant and immaterial. It would handicap him in the conduct of the training. Naturally, being one of the enlightened, he stated that he would try and struggle along. In the final shooting exercises our friend was so far ahead of the rest of the school that he was, in effect, in a different category. This did not endear him to the management.
http://myweb.cebridge.net/mkeithr/Jeff/jeff1_5.html
Please share your favorite tales of this obsolete, irrelevant and immaterial pistol design, if you'd be so inclined. Thanks in advance.