The Smith & Wesson 1911PD Gunsite edition pistol is a classic, wooden gripped, commander-style 1911 chambered in .45 ACP.
Perhaps it goes without saying, but in a market increasingly consisting of 2011 pistols, feeling the heft and mechanics of 1911 in the hand is somewhat soothing.
Moreover, with the 1911PD Gunsite edition two great things come together: Gunsite Academy and Smith & Wesson.
Gunsite is a renowned firearms training academy in Paulsen, Arizona, focused on “[providing] firearm training to elite military personnel, law enforcement officers and free citizens of the US.”
The training academy was founded in the 1970s by Lt. Col. Jeff Cooper, an author, columnist, professor, and WWII and Korean War combat veteran.
Cooper famously said, “Owning a piano does not make one a pianist any more than owning a handgun makes one a good shooter.”
Gunsite’s webpage observes, “Only an effective, safe and authoritative program of
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