Nighthawk Lady Hawk and Long Slide

During the past several years Nighthawk Custom of Berryville, Arkansas, has developed into the nation’s leading small producer of highly-refined custom Model 1911s. I say “small,” because Nighthawk—by intention—does not come close to rivaling the volume output of today’s other brand-name “custom-manufacture” Model 1911 producers. 

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And I say “highly-refined,” because Nighthawk continues to produce Model 1911s in the manner of the great custom makers in the “Golden Age” of custom pistolsmiths during the 1980s and 1990s: built by individual craftsmen, one at a time, on customer order, to the customer’s specifications. At the same time, Nighthawk does offer a catalog of basic Model 1911 variations, which can either be ordered as-specified, or featured to individual customer tastes.

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