Another way to look at this, IMO anyway- If you keep a .45 auto for a SHTF scenario, as I do, the last thing you want is all the inlays, plating-etc.

I have a 1911-A-1 tuned by the CA master pistol-smith- Armond Swensen-- more accurate with any load I care to- feed it with than the Gold Cup I once owned-- and "No rattle-no shine either. RWTF


"The field is the touchstone of the man"..