My shift over to 1911s has me typically traveling with a .45ACP firearm (or two) on my person. I am now considering adding a braced pistol in .45 to function as my travel long gun. There aren't a lot of options in this realm. The big four:
Kriss Vector SDP
B&T APC45
B&T GHM45
A-O Thompson Pistol
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The B&Ts are interesting, but I'm reticent. For starters, the APC45 is ~2300 before you add a brace (which is running another 4 bills) and the GHM45 is cheaper (1600), but the brace is 600 bucks. The mags are also expensive at ~80-100 bucks a piece.
The Thompson - old school cool, but I think entirely impractical - mag quality seems hit and miss.
So that leaves the Vector SDP - Street price for a new Gen II is ~1300 bucks and Glock 21 mags are fairly inexpensive, the extensions they sell aren't terribly expensive either. And there are options from KCI and ETS as potentially cheap range mags.
Anyone have any experience behind the Vector? Yay? Nay? Gen 1 or Gen 2? I see advantages to the AR-Buffer tube type setup for a brace, but it seems to me the original version worked fine, especially with a tail-hook brace.