Remember the "Good Old Days?"

[allaboutshooting]

I have found that some products have gotten much better over the years. I still remember 1500 mile oil changes, rusted-out mufflers, tires that were shot with just a few thousand miles and gun choices that were pretty limited.

If you'd told me about this gun back then, I would not have believed it.

http://allaboutshooting.com/blogs/blog/168494407-kahr-pm45-black

I hope you enjoy the read.

Thanks,
Clark

[spurman]

Good read Clark. I love the old 1911's.

[quavers59]

So many Camo patterns also. I still like Tre-bark when it first came out.

[TRG3]

Tre-bark is still my favorite camo pattern, but hard to find except sometimes at yard sales where it's dirt cheap and comes home with me. I still remember the day some 15-20 years ago when I made the long climb up the north side of Benham Ridge near One Horse Gap Lake in Pope County, Illinois, only to find that the Forest Service had put a gravel road down the entire length of the ridge and there were turkey hunters everywhere who had driven in. I never went back there.

[allaboutshooting]

Good read Clark. I love the old 1911's.

Thank you. I've owned a bunch of 1911 & 1911A1 models. There were a few of the South American clones as well and I carried a Colt Commander in the late '60s & early '70s. Frankly, I enjoyed them all.

This PM45 really got my attention. It's striker fired with Kahr's patented action, so it's safe to carry one in the chamber, no magazine safety which I really like and the trigger is great. I frankly never thought I'd be shooting a .45 this small, let alone like it.

Thanks again,
Clark

[Brian Fahs]

My elderly uncles remind me often that we are living the good old days right now. When it comes to hunt able turkey and deer numbers. As stated above most of our equipment today is light years ahead of what the previous generation thought was state  of the art.

[Greg Massey]

I still look at the good old day's as some of the best in gun's and equipment , not all this china made stuff back then...

[allaboutshooting]

My elderly uncles remind me often that we are living the good old days right now. When it comes to hunt able turkey and deer numbers. As stated above most of our equipment today is light years ahead of what the previous generation thought was state  of the art.

Yes. I was part of the "good old days" and at least to me, it's much better now.

Thanks,
Clark

[allaboutshooting]

I still look at the good old day's as some of the best in gun's and equipment , not all this china made stuff back then...

We've had Remington and Mossberg U.S. made guns for as long as I've been around. We had a few others that have been purchased by other companies and become part of their brands, Marlin, Savage, etc. Winchester went out of business and the name was bought a couple of times and now is part of the FN group.  We've had Brownings made in Japan, Portugal and Belgium. A lot of companies now have guns made in Turkey and for a while, Russia was a popular source.

We were importing a lot of AKs & SKSs from all over the place, China, Russia, Bulgaria, etc. but that seems to have slowed way down.

The 1968 gun laws inspired a lot of companies to start making guns in the U.S. and that seems to have continued. There's some real quality work being done by some of those companies and that's very good to see.

It would be very good to see more manufacturing in the U.S. again and maybe we'll see that. I sense that the mood of the country is headed in that direction.

Maybe some of the "good old days" are still ahead of us.

Thanks,
Clark