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The Auto Ordnance 1911 pistols are Made in USA 7+1 capacity .45 ACP M1911 semi-automatics that are convincing replicas of the M1911A1 originals from a century ago. These effortlessly elegant single-action only (SAO) guns feature a Commander-length 4.25” barrel. The two models are the 1911BKOC and 1911BKOWC. The BKO prefix in these guns denotes they are part of the BKO-series; W denotes wooden grips and C stands for the Commander size guns.

These guns are all matte black and evoke the nostalgia and history of the classic M1911A1 models. They have pretty much everything you’d expect on an M1911 except maybe the original’s age. Thus, there’s the familiar barrel-vaulted slide with a clean front but a tight cluster of grippy vertical slide serrations in back. The sights are simple and classic. You have a blade sight in front and a dovetailed drift adjustable sight in back. You have the manual thumb safety and slide catch on the left and so on.

Also, for safety, you have the aforementioned firing pin block, thumb safety and a grip safety. The firing pin block is a passive safety. Unless the trigger is pulled, it prevents the firing pin from moving forward to fire the gun such as if it is accidentally dropped.

Except the grips, the gun is matte black. Thus, the slide, barrel and frame are all matte black. The side grips aren’t wood but nice dark brown plastic with diamond texturing. They’re fastened by flat-head screws at top and bottom, but they lack the arrowhead shaped “double-diamond” screw surrounds of the original guns.

Note that you can also get real wood instead on the 1911BKOWC model. They’re quite beautiful because they have the variety of wood colors. They also include the large “U.S.” letters in a center medallion and the famed large diamond screw surrounds the plastic grips lack.

The slide, disconnector and sear are carbon steel that’s machined using solid bar stock as a starting point. These are made and then heat treated for extreme long-term durability. The frame is carbon steel too! Other tactile surfaces abound. Thus, the slide catch, thumb safety, have serrations. The circular magazine release has a classic tight waffle pattern.

In back you have medium beavertail, and the hammer is a small extended thumb that’s exactly where you’d expect it. At the bottom is a grip safety, curved palmswell, solid trigger in a racetrack oval trigger guard and a lanyard loop. The magazines slam flat into the non-flared magwell.

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