The Umarex Colt Commander and Remington 1911 RAC (both are manufactured in Taiwan and share identical features) are the most exact in detail and operation to a 1911. Once you shoot a live-action BB gun, it’s hard to stop until you run out of CO2, and, best of all, most top-quality 1911 models retail for less than $150. Gaining familiarity with a cartridge-firing pistol and its operation by using a perfectly matched air pistol is affordable and efficient, ideal for youth or remedial training, and there’s also just the plain fun of it. 177 BBs on your target for only pennies, rather than the cost of. All that is missing is recoil, and you can see the results of your efforts with. This also helps to improve skills such as trigger control and sight acquisition, particularly with this type of air pistol because the slide on the Umarex Colt Commander and Remington 1911 RAC actually functions with each shot. Specific training regimens can be practiced with these “blowback” air pistols, right down to loading the magazine, chambering the first round and pulling the trigger. In terms of training exercises, there are numerous advantages to using 1911 live-action air pistols, as these duty-sized handguns operate the same way as a cartridge-firing Colt. With these air guns I could have learned a lot for just pennies on the dollar! I wish back then that I knew what I know now and that there had been air pistols like the Umarex Colt Commander and Remington 1911 RAC. Over time, I improved motor skills and muscle memory by practicing draw, presentation and firing routines-exercises that include the swift but well-timed release of the thumb safety, placement of the trigger finger, activation of the slide and magazine releases, reloading, releasing the slide and reacquiring the target after each shot. The cost of that training experience, even in the late 1960s, wasn’t cheap.
My very first handgun was a World War II-era Model 1911, and I could not hit the broad side of a barn with it! Fortunately, there were very few barns where I lived in the Southern California desert, but there was this wonderful sand berm just outside of town that folks used as a shooting range on weekends, and it was there, over time, that I became proficient with the 1911.
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