Korth PRS 6" .45 ACP

Korth is best known for building some of the most expensive revolvers on earth, so a 1911 from the same Lollar workshop is a different kind of animal. The PRS takes the Browning pattern and runs it through Korth's hand fitting process, and the result looks like nothing else on a 1911 shelf. This one wears the 6 inch configuration, with the extended slide and the forward weight system that bolts onto the dust cover rail.

That weight is the whole personality of the gun. It sits ahead of the trigger guard on an accessory rail, ported on the sides, adding forward mass to settle the muzzle during recoil. Korth includes the documentation to mount and remove it, so you can run the pistol long or strip it back. The slide carries Korth's dimpled cooling cuts on both sides, deep cocking serrations front and rear, and the engraved Korth name across the flat. Look at the right side and you find Waffenfabrik Korth Germany rolled into the frame along with the CIP proof marks. The .45 Auto chamber stamp sits just behind the ejection port.

The finish is a matte black across slide and frame, with the breech face and a few high points left in the white. Grips are where it gets loud. Anodized red aluminum panels drilled in a honeycomb pattern, screwed over a frame that carries golf ball dimple texturing on the front strap and mainspring housing. The trigger is a skeletonized three hole unit, the hammer a rounded competition spur, and the rear sight a fully adjustable LPA target unit paired with a post front.

This one comes as Korth delivers it, in the fitted wooden case with the factory paperwork, the gunsmith and inspector tag, tools, and spare parts. For a buyer who already owns the usual American custom names, this is the German answer to the question, and there are not many of them in the country.