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Skiprr,

Bald - check, and what hair I possess comes out of my ears, - check...

And, yes, it's just so much fun ragging on the 1911 fans.

They get so riled, eyes bug out, veins go apopin in the foreheads, and then the fun commences.

They sing: My 1911 can do no wrong.

It has more power than a BMG and can shoot twice as far.

Why, my 1911...is prettier than your old nasty Glock.

My 1911 eats Kennel Ration.

My 1911 is prettier than youuuuuuuuuuuuur Glock, my 1911 blah, blah, blah....OK, I'll stop typing, I'm laughing too much.

K.Mooneyham,

Once, when my love for 1911's was strong, I saw the possibility of an ND with a 1911 not being all that difficult...

TAM,

Sounds good, but I don't buy it.

The creaking, walking with a limp, hideously prone to failure pistol is hardly XKE comparable.

Yes, many like to place the 1911 upon an altar, but it's had it's day and overstayed it's welcome.

Much like guys who clamor to trot out their beloved old putt-putt cars while smiling and waving in geezer filled parades, bald heads and white beards shining, the 1911 will always be loved by the diehard.

A souped up, muscular, high tech, semi-auto it ain't.

It's a tired, old has been and should be given a dignified pasture to die in...

O.K. kidding aside.

1911's win the beauty award.

Were I to put many thousands of rounds through one without a failure, as I have with my Glock 19's, I too would have one for EDC.

It's my sad experience to report, I've owned, borrowed and shot a number of high quality .45 caliber 1911's and every one was conscientiously cleaned, lubed, care for and all without exception couldn't shoot a box of shells without something going wrong from fte to ftf to something that prevented it from going bang.

Yet, I read guys on this forum talk about their having a flawless 1911 comparable in dependability to a Glock.

Guys, who say this, I'm not calling you bull excrement wielders, but I have misgivings about your ah, perception, yeah that's it, perception...

I love Martini-Henry 45-70 rifles, but were I to be in a gun battle, I'd want my Colt LE6920 with plenty of loaded with 5.56 rounds in Magpul magazines.

Yes, old time rifles and pistols are beautiful museum pieces...they're still lethal, but dated in their technology, very dated.

Stearman Biplanes are things of beauty, museum quality beauty, much like the 1911...but if I'm going to travel by air, it won't be in a Stearman and I sure won't be trusting my life to a persnickety 1911, a usually under capacity old time pistol.

But hey, if you care to carry a cap and ball era revolver for your EDC, more power to you. (pssst, you gonna need it)

Calling my beloved Glocks ugly is meaner than calling my dog "Fleatus" ugly, sob, cough, sob....

"the 1911 will always have a special place in my heart"

Me too, right next to the flintlocks and blunderbusses.

See the currently running thread regarding a 61 year old woman and what happened to her when she ran out of bullets.

Don't buy guns that hold only a few bullets.

Presumably, she was shooting a revolver, which in most cases holds only 5/6 rounds. Pretty anemic capacity. That's less even than the ancient .45 1911 which itself is fairly low on round count, most especially in this day and age when some pistols hold as many as 20 rounds.

Yep, it'll go pew pew pew 8 times and then it's outta juice...A Glock .45 caliber on the other hand will go pew, pew, pew 10/13 times before it's outta juice (plus, it's dependable)