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Top handgun priority for me in 2011 is a Colt Lightweight Commander, pre-Series 70 or Series 70, if possible. So, for inspiration, let's see the Commanders!

My plan is to acquire the LW Commander and send the slide to Heirloom Precision for a set of sights, then replace the mainspring housing with a Colt unit with lanyard loop and switch out the trigger for a solid one. Other than that I think I'll keep it stock

Here's mine. EDC, 1962 Colt's Lightweight Commander. MMC Hi-Vis fixed sights. Bar-Sto barrel. Kramer Pro-Line horsehide holster. Milt Sparks mag pouch. Lightweight trigger. Jim Hoag slide release. Eight round magazines.



Works for me.

L.W.

Here is my early 70s satin nickel Commander 9mm:


And my 70s Commander satin nickel .45 (ignore the Officer's .45):

Some nice working guns here.

I've had a couple of lightweight Commanders, one was set up exactly like Leanwolf's, except for the slide release, which I like better stock. Leanwolf obviously has superb tastes.....

Actually, I've found that Commanders don't need BarStos much, both I had were more accurate than the '70 Series Gold Cup I had at one time, which might have been the basis for Lemon Laws worldwide, it was a POS and I have no qualms about saying so.

I had a series 70 Commander that I carried until my Agency said I had to carry a Glock. After I retired I obtained this stainless XSE and it is more accurate than my early sixties Gold Cup. Colt still knows how to build a good 1911.

Thanks guys, keep'em coming My local shop always tries to talk me into a Kimber LW Commander size pistol but I just can't get used to a full length guide rod setup after cutting my teeth on standard bushing 1911s. If I'm gonna get a Commander, it's gonna be a Colt

DAMM STRAIGHT!!

I have the XSE stainless Commander too. Looks just like that, except mine was made just before they started coming standard with Novak sights.

I have only one. Series 70, Colt's Combat Commander. Several years back, I had it hard chromed, and added a lot of bells and whistles.
It is my most carried pistol.

That one looks like it came straight out of the "Detonics Era". I well remember when that look dominated the 1911 scene. Especially affected were the smaller guns. That is nice and takes me back.

...how many do you want to see....

My first Commander was a electroless nickel .45 Combat Commander bought about 1974. Next was this 1952 .38 Super..bought in 1980 and carried daily for 27 years..




Was replacd by this 1952 as a daily carry gun...






Current carry 1952 with a hard chrome/ivory stocked 1952 Super...





1951 9mm with .38 Super berrel...




El Potro (The Colt) from the "El" series of guns...



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..need more?

Bob

9mm top end on a LW .45 frame.

I remember when COLT did a test on the "COMMANDER MODEL", it went some 10,000 rounds before developing a crack in the frame of the pistol. I don't suppose that was a bad thing because most of those I knew who had one, would not fire more than 500 rounds a year through their Colt Commander pistol.

That's 20 years.

Was it a lightweight Commander (aluminum frame) or a standard Commander (steel frame)??

The original convention was that if one is only referred to as a "Commander," it's the lightweight version. To refer to the all steel model, you say "Combat Commander."

Those are very nice. You may be the reason I currently don't have a Commander though.

...again accused of crimes I have not committed!!!


70s .38 Super Combat Commander in electrless nickel...




..and another .45 Commander in blue...





Best looking .45 Combat Commander (70s vintage) I have ever seen...this is polished hard chrome not nickle.






Series 80 stainless with BoMar sights and tritium dot front...




1956 .38 Super...hard crome frame, BoMar sights with tritium dot front...a super shooting 1911..



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...I am not to blame...blame the people who sold them to me...

Bob