Final trials began to determine whether the John Browning designed Colt Special Army Model 1910 or the Elbert Searle designed Savage Model 1907 would become the first automatic pistol to be adopted by the U.S. Army. Both were chambered in .45 ACP, a Colt designed cartridge.
The Colt Special Army Model 1910 is familiar to history as the M1911. The Savage, less so.
The Colt would go on, of course, to be adopted and is the greatest military handgun of all time. Still superior, in the minds of many (including the author), to any handgun that came after it.
As a minor note on that, I recently went through security in at a Wyoming court and the Sheriffs Deputy manning it was armed with a high end 1911. I asked him about it. He'd been in the Army, and rejected all the 9mms that came after the M1911.
He's not the only one.
The Silver Spray was caught in a snowstorm on Lake Erie, foundered, and its fishing crew froze to death in the lake.
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