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KWBSales
8th June 2007, 17:58
The Jeff Cooper Commemorative (http://www.edbrown.com/jeffcooper.htm) Model
MSgt G
8th June 2007, 20:14
Nice looking 1911! What a fitting tribute to a great man.
wichaka
8th June 2007, 20:17
It's not what I expected..........way too fancy.

I was expecting to see a nicely done 1911 more along the lines of his famous words "Good sights, good trigger, and a dehorn job"
DuckRyder
8th June 2007, 20:36
It is a handsome pistol.
BringerOfStorms
8th June 2007, 20:42
Great idea, but it does look a little fancy for a Cooper tribute... nice that someone stepped up to do it though.
~BoS
Frank
8th June 2007, 21:34
I'm with wichaka on this. It looks like a fine pistol, and I'd like to have one (but won't be able to in California). But it is too fancy for the Colonel's taste, IMHO. In his view a 1911 needed only, "a trigger one could manage, sights one could see and a modest dehorning" to be the proper defensive sidearm.

As I recall, Jeff Copper's personal sidearm was a Commander size, very slightly modified Colt. It had XO express style sights, but I can only assume that the trigger had been worked on and that it had been dehorned, because I didn't had an opportunity to handle it.

DVC
Gunner777
8th June 2007, 22:55
My two cents worth. It is a beauty of a gun but if they wanted one that looked like the colonels gun it would be something like I saw him carry.It was a blued slide with satin chrome frame and good low profile sights. Another was an all blue Colt commander standard except for the good sights. No beavertail or anything else. The sights were the only obvious change. The rest was on the inside.
One thing I didn't care for was the gold initials on the left side of the slide.
OD*
8th June 2007, 23:07
I like it, but my first thoughts were the same as Steve's, fancier than what I imagine the Colonel packing.
OD*
8th June 2007, 23:10
Frank, Gunner...

You're both correct as far as I'm concerned, the good Colonel carried a number of different pistols over his career.

John has several posted on the Forum.
http://forum.m1911.org/showthread.php?t=16083&page=1&pp=10
Frank
9th June 2007, 01:22
Yup, the Commander was the one he wore when I met him about five years ago now. He wore it in a yaqui slide type holster that had been made by Gordon Davis.

DVC
piedrarc
9th June 2007, 13:12
Looks like a Special Forces to me.
Nice that EB would put out a pistol for a great warrior.

RIP Col. Cooper