It is 4-5 day today. Post your big bores!

[Lost River]

Today is a good day to carry a .45.

Any actually is a good day to carry one, but since today is 4-5, today is as good as any. So I figured why not post a couple. Semi autos or revolvers are welcome. Heck even rifles if you have one. :)

From field pistols to hunting guns to CCW, to duty pieces, .45 caliber handguns have been getting it done for a very long time now.

https://i.imgur.com/rurc1Ao.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/gFZwtsul.jpg

[Cory]

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[defilade]

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Here are a couple of my .45’s.

All of Lost Rivers post about Glock 21’s is giving me an itch. I’m trying to resist.

[Robinson]

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[Tokarev]

Norinco 1911A1 with a bit of work by EGW and the Action Works.
https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20240405/08262b1cae065a4b5ebb98881a5699b8.jpg

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[Totem Polar]

“Today is 4-5 day…”

Damn dude, I like the way you think.
:cool:

[KevH]

https://i.imgur.com/MSiuwmVl.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/SLaPZBTl.jpg

[Navyguns]

Les Baer SRP Comanche.
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[psalms144.1]

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[KevH]

https://i.imgur.com/ybjkeSjl.jpg

Not my best photography, but here is a new one.

This 2012 Colt XSE Combat Elite it the result of late night scotch drinking and internet browsing this past Fall.

Since John Jardine passed away I haven't carried the gun he built for me (posted above). I'm just too sentimentally attached to it and his memory I guess.

So far I'm the only one that has worked on this XSE. So far I've fitted a John Harrison trigger and ignition components, a Chen SI magwell, VZ rosewood grips, and a Wilson BP slide stop and thumb safety. I've spent some time mildly de-horning things that bug me and since it's a stainless frame and blued slide it's super easy to blend in.

I'm not sure what I'm going to do for sights yet. It may just get a plain black Novak rear and Dawson FO front.

It's kind of cool to have a functional 1911 that only you have worked on.

[HeavyDuty]

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[BN]

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S&W 25-2. I bought it new back in the late 70s or early 80s. It's had a few modifications from time to time. Neat old gun.

[Half Moon]

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[Chuck Whitlock]

Old photo on my phone:

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How she is today:

(top photo)

https://pistol-forum.com/showthread.php?2817-1911-picture-thread&p=1500855&viewfull=1#post1500855

[gringop]

Ya'll had to make me go digging around in the safe.

Clockwise from lower left.
Kimber Procarry 2 HD (my IDPA gun until I got Glock Fever)
Kimber Classic, built in Clackamas. (I had it electroless nickel plated)
Sistema with some upgrades
625-8 (the year after I bought it, IDPA changed the rules to 4" max revolver length)
25-5 45 Colt
1917 Brazilian re-import

Gringop

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I almost forgot, a Win 94 Trapper 45 Colt angle eject with a Williams Receiver sight. I took my first deer with it after it fell off my motorcycle on the gravel road 1/4 mile from the deer camp. Lesson learned, don't trust the snap hook on a duffel bag to keep guns securely on a bike.

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[theJanitor]

It's forty-five friday for two more hours.

https://photos.smugmug.com/photos/i-njxk86p/0/fztJLM8S329hz8j8hrwKLrf3nGWTJvDmLLfNSxt6/X2/i-njxk86p-X2.jpg

https://photos.smugmug.com/photos/i-sd7HnmQ/0/DBhTw9VSwv2sp9zDG5Qvv8bPqwtCss8cRPRxMNJRT/X2/i-sd7HnmQ-X2.jpg

[Noah]

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[HeavyDuty]

https://pistol-forum.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=60221&d=1579394103.jpg

[Elwin]

Apparently we’re still doing this on 4/6, so here’s my Les Baer after taking the dogs to the park and making coffee while I wait for my wife to make a grocery run to make breakfast possible.

I also agree with KevH. I’d love a true custom gun someday, but I also really enjoy shooting and carrying guns that I’ve done all or most of the work on. This one has had the milling and finishing done elsewhere, but all the parts changes and other mods here and there were me. I was doing stopping and material removal on polymer guns before, and if I’m going to tinker like that I probably belong in the 1911 world - I just need to get better at yelling at clouds.

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[bac1023]

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/xq70/922/pcoIZb.jpg (https://imageshack.com/i/pmpcoIZbj)

[Duelist]

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Heavy, but heavy is good. If it breaks, you can still hit someone with it.

[UpDok]

No .45 picture thread would be complete without at least one HK45C

This one is a light LEM

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[TOTS]

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Too many non-1911s so Ill get us back on track! My pass-down to my son with some high heels I made her from cocobolo.

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Wearing her hiking boots.

[dogcaller]

Norinco 1911A1 with a bit of work by EGW and the Action Works.
https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20240405/08262b1cae065a4b5ebb98881a5699b8.jpg

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How is that Norinco treating you...?

[ACP230]

I have a muzzleloading pistol, a .45, which I would post to this
thread if I knew how.

It's an underhammer and takes .45 caliber
round ball, and wadding, over a .45 ACP case of black powder.
Named for the American gunsmith who developed the gun.
Ashebell Cook if I remember right.

Several others as well, but the muzzleloader came to mind when
I started reading this.

[farscott]

A few. A Kimber Warrior worked over by Chuck Rogers and Drake Oldham, a Nighthawk Heinie Tactical finished in NP3, a pair of Colt WW I commemoratives from 1967 and 1968, a pair of custom Norincos, and a Springfield Armory pistol customized by an unknown smith..

[bac1023]

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/xq70/922/BItMtF.jpg (https://imageshack.com/i/pmBItMtFj)

[TC215]

https://i.imgur.com/4glMoWM.jpg

[Tokarev]

How is that Norinco treating you...?Good, although not much is Norinco other than the frame and slide. The thumb safety and maybe firing pin and stop are the only other original parts. Maybe the recoil spring plug. I don't remember now.



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[Tokarev]

Related to 45 day:


https://youtu.be/4PPYB6b4xzI?si=H-M6d6ceJviFv9hy

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[Lost River]

https://i.imgur.com/sJYV6lCh.jpg?1

[Lost River]

https://i.imgur.com/kBgnCfxh.jpg?1

[fatdog]

two days late to the thread, but in my state of old, decrepit, and lazy the lightweight commanders are just no fun to shoot and my shot to shot recovery sucks, the full size all steel government models are just too heavy to carry anymore, my favorites and what I would leave the house wearing anymore...

RRA Poly, this gun has really grown on me the last few years, and my gen 4 G21, both reasonably accurate, as reliable as I could ask for

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[HeavyDuty]

I hate to pollute a pic thread with questions, but…


https://i.imgur.com/sJYV6lCh.jpg?1

I haven’t seen a slide profile sized barrel bushing in years. Is anyone still doing these?


RRA Poly, this gun has really grown on me the last few years…

I’d completely forgotten about these, and don’t think I’ve ever seen one in the flesh.

[Lost River]

I hate to pollute a pic thread with questions, but…



I haven’t seen a slide profile sized barrel bushing in years. Is anyone still doing these?



I’d completely forgotten about these, and don’t think I’ve ever seen one in the flesh.

I have no idea if anyone is doing this anymore. This gun was built in the early-mid 90s and I could not even tell you what the name of the bushing manufacturer is. I had it done, as I had been told that the original ones were prone to failure. No work was done as far as barrel fitment, (hood, locking lugs) for accuracy reasons. I wanted ultra reliability. This gun ended up being my BUG and off duty gun for a while. The Officer's ACPs, and 3.5" 1911s in general had a reputation for somewhat questionable reliability, so this one was set up to run, and it runs extremely well.

It is a bit heavy (by today's standards), being a stainless gun, instead of an aluminum frame, but I was concerned that I would trash an aluminum frame in short order.

Funny thing about this gun, these days being older, I am very rarely influenced by many people other than ones I know and trust on a personal level. This gun is sort of a result of reading gun magazines from the late 1980s and early 1990s. Roy Huntington was a writer for American Hangunner and a cop in southern CA. I cannot recall the town. Anyways he wrote off and on about a little Colt Officer's ACP he had and carried frequently. I very much enjoyed his other writings, and his practical, common sense manner. So, when I turned 21 the first handgun I legally purchased was the Officer's ACP. Then I went down the road to Milt Sparks. They had a new holster out called the Executive Companion, and I received the first one ever for a 3.5" 1911.


https://i.imgur.com/uYJjoOHh.jpg

It still had the old "Idaho City" stamp on it, which is a little town in the mountains outside of Boise a ways where Milt used to have his shop.

https://i.imgur.com/q2AqtNZh.jpg

I used this gun a good bit. One or two people doing bad things saw the muzzle end of it. I will never forget one weirdo who literally had a broadsword. He pulled it out of his truck and we had a little standoff. :rolleyes:

But I eventually went on to other guns and it rarely gets shot anymore, though it is still quite fun to take out and run a few magazines through.

[Lost River]

Better add the 4506 Decocker version and the first semi auto for S&W, the 645.

https://i.imgur.com/5JwTGVel.jpg

[HeavyDuty]

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Heavy, but heavy is good. If it breaks, you can still hit someone with it.

Back when I was poor I had both a 4516 and 3913 on the gun store counter in front of me. (Both were recently released.) I went 3913, but many times I regretted that choice.


I have no idea if anyone is doing this anymore. This gun was built in the early-mid 90s and I could not even tell you what the name of the bushing manufacturer is. I had it done, as I had been told that the original ones were prone to failure. No work was done as far as barrel fitment, (hood, locking lugs) for accuracy reasons. I wanted ultra reliability. This gun ended up being my BUG and off duty gun for a while. The Officer's ACPs, and 3.5" 1911s in general had a reputation for somewhat questionable reliability, so this one was set up to run, and it runs extremely well.

It is a bit heavy (by today's standards), being a stainless gun, instead of an aluminum frame, but I was concerned that I would trash an aluminum frame in short order.

Funny thing about this gun, these days being older, I am very rarely influenced by many people other than ones I know and trust on a personal level. This gun is sort of a result of reading gun magazines from the late 1980s and early 1990s. Roy Huntington was a writer for American Hangunner and a cop in southern CA. I cannot recall the town. Anyways he wrote off and on about a little Colt Officer's ACP he had and carried frequently. I very much enjoyed his other writings, and his practical, common sense manner. So, when I turned 21 the first handgun I legally purchased was the Officer's ACP. Then I went down the road to Milt Sparks. They had a new holster out called the Executive Companion, and I received the first one ever for a 3.5" 1911.


https://i.imgur.com/uYJjoOHh.jpg

It still had the old "Idaho City" stamp on it, which is a little town in the mountains outside of Boise a ways where Milt used to have his shop.

https://i.imgur.com/q2AqtNZh.jpg

I used this gun a good bit. One or two people doing bad things saw the muzzle end of it. I will never forget one weirdo who literally had a broadsword. He pulled it out of his truck and we had a little standoff. :rolleyes:

But I eventually went on to other guns and it rarely gets shot anymore, though it is still quite fun to take out and run a few magazines through.

I remember being enamored with a 1911 of some flavor in AH, it had a full width bushing blended into the slide sides that had the forward edges either chamfered or melted. It was gorgeous. If someone still offered an oversize bushing, I’d consider doing that.

[Jay585]

I used this gun a good bit. One or two people doing bad things saw the muzzle end of it. I will never forget one weirdo who literally had a broadsword. He pulled it out of his truck and we had a little standoff. :rolleyes:

But I eventually went on to other guns and it rarely gets shot anymore, though it is still quite fun to take out and run a few magazines through.

A skit I thought of upon reading the bolded part:

Lost River: "A fucking broadsword? Aw come on man! Why can't you be normal and have a gun or a pocket knife like everyone else?!"

[Lost River]

A skit I thought of upon reading the bolded part:

Lost River: "A fucking broadsword? Aw come on man! Why can't you be normal and have a gun or a pocket knife like everyone else?!"

LOL,


Well the funny part was I was coming back from the gunsmith's in Boise. I had taken my patrol car for some reason. I was not working though. Cannot remember the circumstances. But I had picked up the little Colt. The gunsmith told me not to carry it until I had test fired it. So I am on my way back to the small town I lived and worked in, and a call went out for aid from another agency. I was very close so I pulled in. The other cop had this guy pulled over in a parking lot. All I had was the little Officer's ACP. The guy is yelling, not cooperating and we are trying to do a felony stop. Then the guy reaches behind the seat of the truck and starts pulling out a sword. and he keeps pulling out a sword. I remember thinking "who carries a broadsword, that thing is huge", and the words of my gunsmith about "don't carry the Colt until you shoot it/test it". I remember thinking "shoot him in the head, because you may only have one shot".

Fortunately it was not long and some more cars arrived and it got handled properly.


The lessons learned as a young/new officer. I made a LOT of mistakes, and looking back there are LOTS of things I would do differently, or simply not do at all!

[dvc45acp]

Well, I'm 2 days late and a dollar short, but here are 2 I like a lot. I wish the Remington was still made. 16 rounds +P HST provides warm feelings.

[LittleLebowski]

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[Lost River]

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You need to slay some form of Wyoming big game with that.

Definitely.

[paul105]

Kahr CM45
.
https://photos.imageevent.com/paul105/hobby/CM45%20and%20Howa%20Targs%20thumbnail_IMG_5801.jpg

[Wondering Beard]

So, when I turned 21 the first handgun I legally purchased was the Officer's ACP. Then I went down the road to Milt Sparks. They had a new holster out called the Executive Companion, and I received the first one ever for a 3.5" 1911.

And that just made feel old.

;-)

[LittleLebowski]

You need to slay some form of Wyoming big game with that.

Definitely.

#Soon (https://pistol-forum.com/usertag.php?do=list&action=hash&hash=Soon)

[Bruce Cartwright]

A skit I thought of upon reading the bolded part:

Lost River: "A fucking broadsword? Aw come on man! Why can't you be normal and have a gun or a pocket knife like everyone else?!"

Actually, the retort should be: "Onagasimasu." Translated from Japanese as "Will you train with me?"

Nice Officers Model.

Bruce

[SW CQB 45]

A gift from my dad in 1988 when I graduated the police academy.

It was bought brand new, and my very first shot sent the barrel bushing, recoil springs and plug flying.

It was sent to Kings Gun Works In Cali shortly thereafter. They installed their bushing and recoil rod system.

In the 90s, I garaged hacked this by trying to install a EB Grip Safety (over cut it) and did my own high front strap.

It had a King Tappen rear sight and factory front. This little gun ran but was not a looker.

https://i.imgur.com/wQM41yOh.jpg

I wanted something else, and my dad was ok with me selling it and so it sold on consignment at a local shop.

Some yearssss later, after my dad passed, I wanted it back.

I went to the dealer who asked me for a month and year, so he could look up the transaction but sadly I could not recall.

About 6 months later the dealer called me saying he had my gun back in the store. He said he was going through some files and found my transaction (unfiled) laying at the top of the box.

The pistol cost me about $500 more to get it back but I did not care.

I sent it to the original ACW (I think in 2014) who did his best to try and clean it up. Rob did wonders.

https://i.imgur.com/QrzZiOQh.jpg

I later sent it to PSingle for this and this.

https://i.imgur.com/gXR1QKEh.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/4Zm9t9Gh.jpg

It does have a dilemma... I over cut the feed ramp in the 90s and it needs a new feed ramp and the original Kings Recoil System, the springs are no longer made.

I did try to covert to flat wire and while it worked, 230 hard ball seemed too much for the spring. I might have to reload for this piece once I get the feed ramp fixed. I will likely send this back to Rob. I have too many irons in the fire still.

https://i.imgur.com/SQHlN3fh.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/Zxd4N9eh.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/e7VMdTMh.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/eJPKGhwh.jpg

[No.6]

Stock image; don't feel like taking a separate Cat Pak pic.

https://th.bing.com/th/id/R.d00c8edfbac64780bad3789d0885e804?rik=2%2f9BAbYtd OaUtg&riu=http%3a%2f%2fcdn2.armslist.com%2fsites%2farmsl ist%2fuploads%2fposts%2f2015%2f10%2f21%2f4794339_0 1_beretta_model_8045f_cougar_cat_640.jpg&ehk=ooFBiKdiHPlw%2fD7SfqBVoH9hyb%2f4JzCsVPBgJHV34Y w%3d&risl=&pid=ImgRaw&r=0

[Lost River]

It was sent to Kings Gun Works In Cali shortly thereafter. They installed their bushing and recoil rod system.


https://i.imgur.com/wQM41yOh.jpg



That is the same bushing!

That answers the previous question that I could not recall. It is a Kings.

That makes sense too, as it was the same era and I can recall their stuff in the big gun parts bible (Brownell's catalog).

[SW CQB 45]

That is the same bushing!

That answers the previous question that I could not recall. It is a Kings.

That makes sense too, as it was the same era and I can recall their stuff in the big gun parts bible (Brownell's catalog).

I am putting on my thinking cap.

I dont believe yours is a Kings as with the Kings, they machine the slide and you lose the Colt Factory Plug with the big screwdriver slot. Its thin, but I think Ed Brown made similar but more HD barrel bushings, but you kept the factory recoil spring bottom.

I need to do some digging on that one.

if you notice on mine, the factory notch for the factory plug is not utilized by the Kings system.

https://i.imgur.com/OS8W4LNh.jpg

[JAD]

Every day can be 4-5 day.

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[Lost River]

I am putting on my thinking cap.

I dont believe yours is a Kings as with the Kings, they machine the slide and you lose the Colt Factory Plug with the big screwdriver slot. Its thin, but I think Ed Brown made similar but more HD barrel bushings, but you kept the factory recoil spring bottom.

I need to do some digging on that one.

if you notice on mine, the factory notch for the factory plug is not utilized by the Kings system.

https://i.imgur.com/OS8W4LNh.jpg

Since it has been 30+ years I am definitely going to go with your experience and word on this one. The profile looks exactly the same, the way that the bushing matches the slide, that is why I thought that, but if Brown made one as well, it makes sense. It has been just a few years since that project was done, and one or two builds have taken place between then and now!

[SW CQB 45]

https://i.imgur.com/sJYV6lCh.jpg?1

LR,

I got my cables twisted when trying to go back 30 years in my head.

Clark Custom was the one I was thinking of that made Officers barrel bushings.

I also know that EGW made officer bushings but they are shaped different.

Nice COACP!!!!

[Slice]

My “zombie gun,” a real pleasure to shoot.

[LittleLebowski]

What a great story, thanks for sharing.


A gift from my dad in 1988 when I graduated the police academy.

It was bought brand new, and my very first shot sent the barrel bushing, recoil springs and plug flying.

It was sent to Kings Gun Works In Cali shortly thereafter. They installed their bushing and recoil rod system.

In the 90s, I garaged hacked this by trying to install a EB Grip Safety (over cut it) and did my own high front strap.

It had a King Tappen rear sight and factory front. This little gun ran but was not a looker.

https://i.imgur.com/wQM41yOh.jpg

I wanted something else, and my dad was ok with me selling it and so it sold on consignment at a local shop.

Some yearssss later, after my dad passed, I wanted it back.

I went to the dealer who asked me for a month and year, so he could look up the transaction but sadly I could not recall.

About 6 months later the dealer called me saying he had my gun back in the store. He said he was going through some files and found my transaction (unfiled) laying at the top of the box.

The pistol cost me about $500 more to get it back but I did not care.

I sent it to the original ACW (I think in 2014) who did his best to try and clean it up. Rob did wonders.

https://i.imgur.com/QrzZiOQh.jpg

I later sent it to PSingle for this and this.

https://i.imgur.com/gXR1QKEh.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/4Zm9t9Gh.jpg

It does have a dilemma... I over cut the feed ramp in the 90s and it needs a new feed ramp and the original Kings Recoil System, the springs are no longer made.

I did try to covert to flat wire and while it worked, 230 hard ball seemed too much for the spring. I might have to reload for this piece once I get the feed ramp fixed. I will likely send this back to Rob. I have too many irons in the fire still.

https://i.imgur.com/SQHlN3fh.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/Zxd4N9eh.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/e7VMdTMh.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/eJPKGhwh.jpg

[serialsolver]

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An old vaquero I repurposed.

[serialsolver]

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An old vaquero I repurposed.

Now that the grandson is asleep..... I walked to a table at a gun show and there’s two vaqueros on the table. They were all beat up. Badly. I had to ask.

What happened to the vaqueros?

Guy behind the table; my dad was into cowboy shooting, so to antique them he put them into a paint bucket an went to Lowe’s an had them shaken by the paint mixer.



Long pause......while I’m trying to get a handle on the odd story and the abuse the vaqueros must have taken.

So I finally ask what he wanted for them?

Guy; $500.00 for both..

Ok, thanks, says I. The guy face shows this had happened to him several times.

I go through the gun show thinking about the pair of vaqueros, made up my mind and return to table.

How bout $400.00 for the vaqueros. I think I stunned him with the offer. Then he said how bout $450.00 and I buy the pair.

I get the two 5 1/2 inch barrel 45 vaqueros home and on the work bench. I spent some time with green scotch bright, files sand paper and got the pair looking, I think pretty good. One of the vaqueros got the broken grips replaced with some fake ivory grips and free spin paw. Thiat vaquero went to my lgs and was sold for $500.00.

This vaquero after being unantiqued got a free spin paw, trigger over travel screw and the barrel cut to 3 inches and the sight replaced. At that time I put a bird heads grip frame on it. It was used in this configuration for several years till the weight of the little big bore became an issue for my back and hip. The birds head grip was replaced with an aluminum grip frame with the original beat up grips that were smoothed out. It has an empty weight of 32ozs and is much easier to carry.

At times when I want something completely different from...well, black an plastic an magazines... ya’know. This vaquero is the breath of fresh air for me.

[Coal Train]

Just in time for summer carry ;) I scored an AIWB holster from Tony Mayer ‘s clearance sale. It is impressive how well this holster conceals .45 Medicine and the smoothness of the draw. Must be the carbon fiber.

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