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Title: Smallest 45 acp
Post by: BCSxyz on May 24, 2013, 08:04:01 PM

Who makes the smallest semi auto in 45 acp?

Title: Re: Smallest 45 acp
Post by: Yeti on May 24, 2013, 09:01:12 PM

I don't know about the smallest but the Springfield XDS is one of the smaller ones.

Title: Re: Smallest 45 acp
Post by: Majer on May 24, 2013, 09:10:04 PM

Used to be the Detonics Combat Master

http://gunner777.wordpress.com/2008/02/25/the-original-mini-1911-the-detonics-combat-master/

Title: Re: Smallest 45 acp
Post by: les snyder on May 24, 2013, 09:51:56 PM

FWIW.... there is a point of diminishing returns regarding reliability .... as the length of the barrel gets short, so does the recoil spring... the spring length is further shortened with a pistol that locks to the slide with recessed lugs like a 1911.... a pistol that locks into the ejection port is the better choice...

for a short .45, and if money is no object... Semmerling LM4

Title: Re: Smallest 45 acp
Post by: jaybet on May 25, 2013, 07:53:35 PM

I've got a Springfield XDS and it's rock-solid. In an IWB holster it completely disappears.

Title: Re: Smallest 45 acp
Post by: tekoken on May 26, 2013, 10:05:21 PM

Bond Arms makes a pretty small 45acp. Pretty cool too!

Title: Re: Smallest 45 acp
Post by: alfsauve on May 27, 2013, 01:32:05 PM

I guess the Liberator:

(http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-jDvoxOkqOzA/TvsRqJtlPrI/AAAAAAAAFpM/M_SOQswJjY4/s400/IMG_0692.jpg)


has be supplanted by the Bond derringer:

(http://ts3.mm.bing.net/th?id=H.4665984769917354&pid=1.7)

or possibly the XDS

(http://ts1.mm.bing.net/th?id=H.4648568722687880&pid=1.7)

Title: Re: Smallest 45 acp
Post by: unclejames on May 27, 2013, 02:49:53 PM

I once had an AMT DAO backup in .45ACP . 16 lb. double action only trigger pull, heel type magazine release, 5+1 capacity and a trough sight. Hard to hold , hard to shoot, hard to reload and hard to aim. But it was pretty damn small for a .45 ACP. I should have put that on my regret I bought it thread.

Title: Re: Smallest 45 acp
Post by: Grizzle_Bear on June 17, 2013, 12:57:15 PM

unclejames:

If you would like to sell your AMT .45, I am in the market.  The gun does have some drawbacks, but it is the smallest .45 I am aware of.  Mine was super-reliable, and the heavy trigger pull meant you were holding it tight enough when it went off!

Sadly, mine got stolen..........