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Originally Posted by DonVoigt

Someone put the grip angle of the 1911 Govt. Model for completeness, please.

Both the Model 1911 and the Government Model used the same forging and hence both models had the same grip angle.

I have found reference to two numbers: 74 and 75 degrees as Browning had found the 55 degrees of the Luger too extreme,

The 74 or 75 degrees was a compromise as field testing indicated that the 84 degrees of the Model 1909 test prototype caused the impact point to drift lower under rapid fire conditions so in the Model 1910 and the Model 1911 production series, the angle was set at 74/75 degrees..

John