Quote Originally Posted by Mitch
The 1911 still issued to any military? Where did you get the production number between 1913 and 1945 from?
US of A is still issuing a variant of the 1911 in larger and larger numbers.
Production numbers are very vague and have to be compiled from a lot of sources as no one place keeps all the quantities and serial numbers. 3 million were produced for the US military that were documented. Here again very vague. I get a lot of information from a lot of people who know way more than me at http://forum.m1911.org Springfield made 60,000 for the Navy that never arrived and went to the Marines. The Secretary of the Navy complained and got another 60,000 from Springfield. This extra set of Springfield pistols were not counted as they were "replacement" pistols in the production count. It is estimate that axis countries during WWII produced almost a million of these 1911 clones to be used with captured ammo.

EDIT::UH...I just noticed I put 50 mil in the above previous post...I meant 5 mil....sorry

Quote Originally Posted by Mitch
A stock military issue HP will out shoot any military issue 1911 hands down, especially under rapid fire.
Could not agree more.