Best Handguns Ever

[msharley]

If I'm not mistaken, isn't that a Liberator pistol from WW2?

Hey Axxe,

You are correct!

And you know (we will let others guess) who made them.

No! Google answers do not count...LOL

A real honest to goodness 45acp POCKET PISTOL!

Later, Mark

 

[msharley]

msharley,

WOW. ------ Do you own a LIBERATOR pistol?
(I haven't ever seen one anywhere except in the collection of the Military Police Museum.)

yours, satx

Hey SA,

No sir.

Have had one in my hand (couple WWII re enactors used to come to the Pin Shoots...they had a bunch of goodies)

Never asked to fire it.....LOL About the size of a pack of Camels....

Later, Mark

 

[satx78247]

Hey SA,

No sir.

Have had one in my hand (couple WWII re enactors used to come to the Pin Shoots...they had a bunch of goodies)

Never asked to fire it.....LOL About the size of a pack of Camels....

Later, Mark

Mark,

I really would like to find one in the cardboard box with the "cartoon" for my WWII display.
(My Dad was USAAF during WWII & he said that they "air-dropped" several hundred of them to partisan groups that were operating behind German lines. He also said that he wondered if the pistols were actually received/used by the intended parties. )

yours, satx
USA, Retired

 

[Axxe55]

Hey Axxe,

You are correct!

And you know (we will let others guess) who made them.

No! Google answers do not count...LOL

A real honest to goodness 45acp POCKET PISTOL!

Later, Mark

I can't recall exactly which GM auto plant made them, or one of the GM suppliers that made stamped steel parts for GM. Since the only machined part was the barrel and all the other parts were stamped steel IIRC.

 

[Axxe55]

@satx78247 I'd still like to hear more on the Winchester 1911A1-GO you were talking about earlier in a previous post on this thread. Care to expand on the pistol and provide more information, or sources, or even some pictures possibly?

 

[msharley]

Mark,

I really would like to find one in the cardboard box with the "cartoon" for my WWII display.
(My Dad was USAAF during WWII & he said that they "air-dropped" several hundred of them to partisan groups that were operating behind German lines. He also said that he wondered if the pistols were actually received/used by the intended parties. )

yours, satx
USA, Retired

Hey SA,

Will keep my ears open....

Some of the older folk are passing....the LGS has been turning up some interesting items....of late.....

I'm thinking thousands were dropped to the French Resistance.......

The odds of the cardboard box surviving?

I do know the WWII re enactors are "accumulators"....they may "trade" something.....LOL(they have a Willy's a .30 cal. Browning, BAR, Thompson....and all the other "stuff" ......)

Later, Mark

 

[easy rider]

Must have been the part that used to be called Belgium

He did go to Belgium, but I would bet he never would have said he was from Belgium.

 

[oldag]

Winchester 1911 (pistol, not the shotgun with the same model number).

https://www.1911forum.com/threads/winchester-1911.102389/

 

[Moonpie]

SIG P-210

Less talking. More shooting!

Slackers

 

[V-Tach]

Glad this thread is about something new and different....

 

[kyletxria1911a1]

Semiautos......definitely a sign of heathens and atheists.

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[msharley]

625? Is that OK?

 

[msharley]

Had the Nephew cut the 4" 625 down to 3-1/2"...for the "Carry Gun Class" at Armor Express...

Had the fiber optic & Bo Mar put on my Combat Commander Project....

 

[paladinmer]

John Moses Browning created the Browning Hi-Power to fix all the problems of the 1911, which he also created. Then Dieudonne Saive perfected the Hi-Power. Something like 65 countries adopted the Hi-Power; a handful adopted the 1911. That said, they're both great guns.

 

[ZX9RCAM]

John Moses Browning created the Browning Hi-Power to fix all the problems of the 1911, which he also created. Then Dieudonne Saive perfected the Hi-Power. Something like 65 countries adopted the Hi-Power; a handful adopted the 1911. That said, they're both great guns.

Welcome to the Forum!

 

[69ChevelleLSX]

1911’s are great firearms one of my favorite.

 

[topduarte]

I am the most accurate and comfortable with a 1911

 

[sh801]

Winchester 1911A1-GO

We're not talking about this are we? This was a General Officer's (GO?) model (M15), built from existing 1911s by Rock Island Arsenal in the early '70s.

More info here- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M15_pistol

The article specifically mentions a high-grade finish.

 

[Axxe55]

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We're not talking about this are we? This was a General Officer's (GO?) model (M15), built from existing 1911s by Rock Island Arsenal in the early '70s.

More info here- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M15_pistol

The article specifically mentions a high-grade finish.

First of all, Welcome to TGT. Stop over in the Intro Section and say hello to everyone.

Second, I did know of the M15, but those were designed and built by Rock Island Armory, and were extremely special Commander 1911's.

He spoke specifically of Winchester Repeating Arms making 1911A1's commercially. Nothing I have read in books, or on the internet shows that WRA has ever manufactured a 1911 either commercially, or for the military under contract. The only reference I have found is that WRA was awarded a contract in WW1, but the war ended and the contract was cancelled before they ever manufactured any.

 

[sh801]

First of all, Welcome to TGT. Stop over in the Intro Section and say hello to everyone.

Second, I did know of the M15, but those were designed and built by Rock Island Armory, and were extremely special Commander 1911's.

He spoke specifically of Winchester Repeating Arms making 1911A1's commercially. Nothing I have read in books, or on the internet shows that WRA has ever manufactured a 1911 either commercially, or for the military under contract. The only reference I have found is that WRA was awarded a contract in WW1, but the war ended and the contract was cancelled before they ever manufactured any.

Understood.

I suspect the WRA part was a "Somebody said" situation, and what the OP saw was actually one of these, the officer mentioned being long time military.

Just speculatin'.