Historic Replicas

Get one of the most efficient side arms used by the United States Armed Forces from 1911 to 1985. The Springfield 1911 or the M1911 served the U.S. armed forces throughout two world wars, the Korean war and the Vietnam war. During the 2nd world war, its official designation was Automatic Pistol Caliber .45. The basic design of the M1911 is the short recoil principle self-loading pistol. This system replaced the traditional revolver handguns that carried several limitations.

During the span of its service for over 70 years, the US government procured around 2.7 million units of M1911. Among John Browning’s designs, the M1911 is the most famous and most widely copied by other gun manufacturers. The M1911 operating system has become the foundation of almost all 20th century modern center fire pistols. My grandfather gave me his original for Christmas last year, and I have it proudly exhibited in a gun display mount on my mantel.

Among the movie genres, Westerns are one of the most classic and most popular. Most take place during the latter half of the 19th century in the area that became known as the American Old West or Wild West, but several well known western films, including Vera Cruz, The Wild Bunch, The Proposition, Quigley Down Under, and others have been set in Canada, Mexico and even in Australia. The earliest Western movies were filmed entirely on set, and utilized canvas paintings as Old West backdrops and other Western replicas as props.

The primary theme of these films is often how created but primitive ways of life and routine conflict when confronted with social change, most commonly depicted by conflicts between settlers and ranchers or natives and the coming industrial revolution. This theme of the modern impinging on the established is represented in most films of the genre. The set-up order of things was continuously changing for real Old West settlers as well, since they started to construct towns and farms the land of the new frontier, and this sense of being at the forefront of a new age is often found in many Westerns as well.