Friday Gun Porn: The Colt Model 1911 .45 caliber pistol
This Friday I decided to go with another John Browning Classic, The Colt Model 1911 .45 caliber pistol.
What has always amazed me about this gun is it was actually designed to meet a problem with the Moro tribesmen. That problem was that they would not fall down and die fast enough when shot with the .38 round the current US Army revolver shot. They were jacked up on drugs and Allah and would keep coming when shot with the .38 unless you emptied the weapon into them.
That problem stopped when the 1911 was sent to Philippines. The funny but not funny ha ha thing is the US ran into this same problem in Iraq with the Beretta 9mm pistol that our troops carried. Once again insurgents jacked up on drugs and Allah were taking multiple hits from the 9mm round and not dying fast enough.(No wonder the 9mm is a wimpy round that was designed to kill Europeans) The US should have never phased out the 1911 and its man stopping .45 round.
This pistol has seen action from the Trenches in World War 1 through the banana republic wars in the 20's and 30's from Bataan to Normandy and Okinawa in World War 2. It was at Pusan and the drive to the Yalu River and was there with the Marines as they "attacked in a different direction" out of the Chosin Reservoir in Korean. It also was at Hue and in the Mekong Delta in Vietnam and was there on the Inner German Border through all the years of the Cold War. It had just an amazing service life.
If anyone in your family was in the service before 1986 they most likely handled one of these guns.
This is gun along with the Colt .45 Peacemaker are the Iconic Handguns of America. It is that simple.
"The right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed."
Chris
What has always amazed me about this gun is it was actually designed to meet a problem with the Moro tribesmen. That problem was that they would not fall down and die fast enough when shot with the .38 round the current US Army revolver shot. They were jacked up on drugs and Allah and would keep coming when shot with the .38 unless you emptied the weapon into them.
That problem stopped when the 1911 was sent to Philippines. The funny but not funny ha ha thing is the US ran into this same problem in Iraq with the Beretta 9mm pistol that our troops carried. Once again insurgents jacked up on drugs and Allah were taking multiple hits from the 9mm round and not dying fast enough.(No wonder the 9mm is a wimpy round that was designed to kill Europeans) The US should have never phased out the 1911 and its man stopping .45 round.
This pistol has seen action from the Trenches in World War 1 through the banana republic wars in the 20's and 30's from Bataan to Normandy and Okinawa in World War 2. It was at Pusan and the drive to the Yalu River and was there with the Marines as they "attacked in a different direction" out of the Chosin Reservoir in Korean. It also was at Hue and in the Mekong Delta in Vietnam and was there on the Inner German Border through all the years of the Cold War. It had just an amazing service life.
If anyone in your family was in the service before 1986 they most likely handled one of these guns.
This is gun along with the Colt .45 Peacemaker are the Iconic Handguns of America. It is that simple.
"The right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed."
Chris
posted by Chris @ 8:45 AM
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