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Gun Digest

Jim Foral

INTRODUCTION WELCOME to the 2011 Edition of Gun Digest!

When Gun Digest was founded in 1944, it had been a scant 33 years since the U. S. Army’s adoption of what many have called the greatest pistol of all time, the Model 1911. And now here we are, on the threshold of the centennial of that truly remarkable pistol. Today, of course, there are dozens of companies who make 1911 and 1911A1 pistols, offshore and domestic, and in shooting most of them, I haven’t yet found one that wasn’t, at the least, a sturdy, serviceable pistol. Some of course have been a great deal more than that.

John Malloy

Holt BodinsonLarry Sterett

John Malloy Jeff Quinn Tom Tabor John Haviland

Tom Caceci Wm. Hovey Smith Gila HayesTom Turpin

Kevin MuramatsuWayne Van Zwoll

Of course, what would Gun Digest be without the usual assortment of pieces about oddball handguns, custom rifles, great gunwriters of the past, and controversies? All of this can be found in these pages along with much more that I hope you’ll find as entertaining and intriguing as I did.