you can't hit someone over the head with a polymer framed pistola with the same effect as the old 1911.
Yep. And I bet a lot of old Colt SAA and S&W Triple Locks were used to give bad guys an attitude adjustment with a little rap on the noggin.
Best friend has his Great GrandDad’s old S&W Tripple Lock .44. He was an old time Sherriff in Waco TX. Killed 2 bad guys with it and brought down a fleeing bank robber by shooting him in the ass with it.
If you look down the barrel, you can see a very slight bend. He said that happened when he “rapped a niqqer gal upside the head for sassing him”.