I'm new to this forum, I have spent about 2 years reading the pistol-training blog. I did search this Autoloaders section to see if "Lippard" came up a match and no results were shown.
So here is the webpage for Karl Lippard showing the witnessed 600yard shooting of his personally modified model 1911.
[URL="http://karllippard.com/military/Testimonials.html"]
There is also video material posted to actually see him doing this performance.
Of additional interest is his approach to gunsmithing the 1911 esp. the A2 upgrade, which is detailed on this webpage,
[URL="http://hkarllippard.com/military/1911A2-Upgrade.html"]
Perhaps the technical aspects of Mr. Lippard's approach to improving the barrel link fit is worthy of remarks from some of the gunsmiths that frequent this forum? Mr. Lippard states that the full blown NCO grade of his 1911 design is designed to work through 150,000 rounds.
I hope this posting is worthy of generating enough interest to warrant comments. My apologies if this is "old information" to those of you on this forum.
Respectfully - Michael