But now comes the national match gold cup 45 acp of 2012 and it is worthy of the 1911 enthusiast s attention.
Gold cup trophy vs national match.
Introduced in the late 1950s the colt gold cup national match became the standard by which all other factory 45 acp bullseye pistols were judged.
For one thing colt got rid of that little sear depressor and spring which were a major pain to put back together.
The pre world war ii national match colt autos had a finish to die for.
Yet unlike the python it remains in the line today.
Colt also changed the sights to bomars which are dovetailed into the slide rather than the flimsy eliasons which were on the national match.
I bought a gold cup trophy model and the gold cup national match model.
Jim fabanich 1 year ago went to local dealer today in idaho.
The trophy is a better pistol than the gold cup national match.
There have been variations including the trophy never bestsellers either.
Single action army series.
This pairing as with earlier gold cups results in an incredibly accurate pistol.
They are both great guns to shoot and they work perfectly.
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