This pistol, built for me in 1992-3 by my friend Bruce Gray @brucegrayggi, shows many influences that can be seen in my own 1911 builds and designs. The gun is finished in Black T and sports Ahrends grips, Vic International flat trigger, EGW weld on mag well, and flawless 30lpi hand checkering. I've liked flat triggers on 1911s for quite some time now....

#tbt Jerry Barnhart won the 1990 USPSA Nationals with a pistol mounted optic, changing the game forever. He is shown here with his winning pistol from the 1998 Steel Challenge. The pistol was a Wilson Combat built Colt Lightweight Commander with a bushing barrel, comp, slide lightening, and Bushnell Holosight. The optic was a partnership between Bushnell and EOTech. Bushnell was a known brand and handled distribution, while EOTech was unknown to the retail market and handled the manufacturing.

For #fortyfivefriday, we cap of our archives week with this single port comp gun from Austin Behlert. This would have likely been made in the very late 80's or 1990-91 based on the pivoting trigger mod. I shot for Behlert's back in the 80's and into the early 90's, and initially ran a single stack .45 quite similar to this gun.