For the last few years, each second quarter on the calendar has become my 1911 pistol season. The reason: in June I have a couple of matches coming up where John Browning’s most popular auto pistol design is particularly suitable. One of those events is a gathering of gun geezers, a match held by my old friend Bill Wilson for us old guys who were in at the beginning of IPSC combat pistol competition in the mid-1970s. We use the guns of that game and that time: 1911s. The other is going to be the last hurrah of my very favorite shooting match ever, the Pin Shoot (www.pinshoot.com), in Michigan. Logic says to get some time in beforehand with the guns I’ll be using, and the 1911 .45 is the logical and most popular choice as the main handgun for pins.My feelings on the 1911 can be found here, from last year in GUNS magazine, where I wrote the handgun column for a few decades:
