What does Colt have in plan for 2011? 100th Anniv. for 1911 design?

[AirPower]

I'm curious if anyone has heard anything on what Colt plans to do to commemorate the 100th anniversary of 1911 pistol?

 

[BlindJustice]

Well, didn't Colt drop the ball when another company trademarked
the 2011 model name?

I was very disappointed when S&W didn't create a 100th
Anniversary model for the N-Frame - the Triple Lock of -1908-
1915 in .44 Specia.

Colt already has retintro'd models of the WWI 1911, WWII
and 70 Series.

Randall

 

[Dimis]

nothing so far but im hoping something great seeing as how the 1911 will have finaly been around for the big 100

 

[1KPerDay]

I'm going to buy my first real 1911 then... I got my first .30-06 in 2006. Good a reason as any.

 

[weisse52]

I have already started my 1911 fund for 2011.

 

[Mags]

Would it be blasphemous to hope for a 38 super 100 year anniversary 1911? I am eyeing a Colt Commander in 38 super, but I could hold out another 18 months if there would be an anniversary model.

 

[BlindJustice]

The Goverment model became first available in .38 Super in 1929
so get one of them now for the 80th of that model

Commander - hmm, mid-50s 9mm Parabellum and .38 SUper
but the Combat Commander with steel frame wasn't until
1970?

R-

 

[steveracer]

Technically, they could do the 1911 100th a couple of years ago. The gun was complete before 1906.

 

[Trebor]

I was just wondering this earlier today myself for some reason...

It would make sense for Colt to do *something* whether it's a special issue pistol, or just run some big ads commerating 100 years of the design and pushing their current guns or just something to mark the anniversary. But, you know, I won't be surprised if Colt doesn't do anything at all because they just can't get their act together enough to do something.

 

[Double Naught Spy]

Technically, they could do the 1911 100th a couple of years ago. The gun was complete before 1906.

Technically, no it was not. From http://www.sightm1911.com/lib/history/hist_dev.htm

A grip safety was added in 1908, followed by a major development in 1909, which brought the pistol to the brink of final success. The two-link system relied upon the slide block key to hold the entire pistol together. If this block should happen to fail, or if a careless shooter should happen to fire the weapon while the block was not in place, the slide could blow off, right into the shooter's face! To solve this potentially deadly hazard Browning devised the single link recoil system. The new configuration replaced the front link with the barrel bushing, which encircled the barrel. The bushing was locked into the front of the slide, and it was held in place by the recoil spring plug. This system resulted in much greater safety and reliability, and the competitive pistols soon fell by the wayside, unable to match the performance of the Colt.

The final prototype wasn't developed until 1910.

 

[paul45]

Please, no more gaudy, gold, dragons, south of the border, ugly junk. TALO will probably get Colt to do it for them, though.

 

[BlindJustice]

+1 Double Naught Spy, save me posting the correction.

The point is the Army adopted it in the year 1911 thus the
Gov. designation M1911, that's the Anniversary to commemorate

Randall
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[earlthegoat2]

Ill celebrate 100 yrs of 1911 by buying something from them other than a stupid comemmorative. There are too many already from a variety of manufacturers for a vaariety of different guns.