I wasn’t saying they should have had double-stack magazines in 1910. The 2011 is slightly slimmer due to its use of a molded grip rather than screwed-on panels, but it also uses expensive magazines with a poor reputation for reliability. 45ACP (I have large hands, and still find them uncomfortably wide). All of the above are horribly disproportionate to the dimensions of the 9mm cartridge, being designed for. I own a Rock Island “1911A2″ 9mm that takes Para magazines. Sorry if I was unclear, but I’m well familiar with both Para-Ordnance and the competing “2011” series of double-stack 1911s. Serial number 3 (this pistol) was given a nice new finish and put into Colt’s factory museum (from whence it later was sold into the collector market). In 1929, someone remembered them when Colt was releasing the M1911A1 in. 38/9.8mm pistols gathered dust in storage, as they were never ultimately put into production. In the end, Colt didn’t win any contracts – but they were able to negotiate a new marketing agreement with FN from a stronger position.
While winning a contract would be great, just appearing would let FN know that Colt was still paying attention. Colt decided to send their new 9.8mm prototype (in the hands of Eugene Reising, then a Colt employee) to pistol trials in England and Romania. They are slightly smaller in scale across all dimensions compared to the now-familiar M1911.Īt the same time, Colt’s relationship with FN was getting tense as FN was selling more guns into Central and South America. 45 caliber frame, but rather wholly new guns built around the smaller ammunition.
38 ACP cartridge and a very similar 9.8mm cartridge (which was tested in both semi-rimmed and rimless variations). So about 5 pistols were handmade by Colt’s tool room around both the old. 38 caliber cartridge might be just teething to get some foreign military contracts. 38 caliber version of the 1910? In addition to a potential US commercial market, a new rimless. 38 caliber automatic pistols, so why not offer a. 45 caliber pistol for the US military (the 1911), the company began to look for ways to exploit the work that had gone into it. With the impending success of Colt’s program to develop new.
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