1911 Pistol Goes Western

Although we don’t generally think of the 1911 semi-auto pistol as a Western firearm, it certainly saw lots of use out West in the first decades of the 20th century. Western film fans may recall its colorful use in such horse operas as The Wild Bunch, The Professionals, They Came to Cordura and, more recently, in the AMC series, The Son. These action-packed films depicted the adventurous times along the U.S.-Mexican border in the early 1900s. Here are some examples of historically accurate, rep