Better than a Gold Cup

[10x]

Has anyone found a 45 ACP that is more accurate than a Series 70 Colt Gold Cup?
i.e. H&K, M&P, XD ?
I am thinking of going in a different direction from my Colts, especially, since I am seeing staggering asking prices for Gold Cups.

[henpecked]

springfield range officer

[CO-Exprs]

No way! You have to get into really high end 1911s to get anything more accurate than your old Gold Cups. Was at the range recently. A older gentleman did me the honor of letting me run his 30yr old Gold Cup and it shot every bit as well as my Les Baer. Old Gold Cups get way more cool kid points than any of the new 1911's also. I'm a Wilson snob and I still marvel when old Colts come out of range bags. New Colts suck, but old Colts are way cool and old Gold Cups are just about the pinnacle, at least for me. Don't know why Colt had to mess with a good thing. All things in nature migrate back to the mean. At that center lie 1911s, SW revolvers and (sigh) Glocks. If you sell the old Gold Cups, I promise you... you will regret it some day. My dad had one when he was a young man. He sold it before I was born and I regret it. Don't make your kids mourn the loss of your Gold Cups.

[BPTactical]

HK Elite.

[ScooterCO]

"Don't make your kids mourn the loss of your Gold Cups."
or reenact Platoon with Charley Sheen...

[10x]

A review I just read on the Range Officer stated 1.81" groups at 25 yards. My Gold Cups will do better than that. I really was thinking of something other than another 1911. From the above comments, I may not sell the GCs and just add something else, if it has better accuracy.

I have no kids to pass them on to, but they do appreciate better than stocks or CDs, so, maybe I will hang on to them.

[CO-Exprs]

Go to a Bullseye or serious Bianchi some time. Take a look at what they are shooting. The only guys shooting Springfields are factory sponsored and no one will be shooting a tupperware gun. Not that tupperware is bad, but if you are concerned with accuracy, there simply isn't anything to compete with a well made 1911. Old Gold Cups are still the measuring stick for what is considered a well made 1911 and nearly all of today's prominant 1911 builders cut thier teeth working on old Colts and learned most of what they learned from the Gold Cups. There are better guns, but they usually carry a name like Heinie, NightHawk, Wilson or Luke Volkman. Check the back log. Nighthawk and Volkman Precision are back ordered about 2 years and Heinie is back ordered till the grave. Any one of the guys on those back ordered lists would tell you to hang on to those Gold Cups. When you're too old to shoot them any more and they need a home, give me a call. I'll try to scrounge up the funds to take one off your hands.

[SA Friday]

What do you need more accuracy for? I mean, I know a guy that makes 1911's with specialized iron sights that shoots accurately with ball ammo out to around 4-500 yds... Or, if you are just shooting normal type pistol activities, you could just keep them and run them like you stole them.

I'm just not sure what the goal of the reasoning is here.

[spyder]

HK Elite.

The Tactical and the Expert also. At least from a ransom rest...

[DFBrews]

The Tactical and the Expert also. At least from a ransom rest...

that is what you do down there... take people off the highway hold them for ransom. it all makes sense now