Quote Originally Posted by landymick View Post
It would be nice to see it back with new internals but the 34 has all bases covered these days.
I take your point. That said having recently had both a 34 and a 45 apart recently (also a 50T01)- I would say that not having a well machined and fitting cocking slipper and piston liner on the 34 was a backward step over the 45.
But I accept that the 34 in overall terms is the modern replacement of the 45. I can't help thinking that the build quality of the 45 was better and the overall quality of machining higher.
In the power stakes (more important across the pond than here) the 45 certainly lost out to the 34.
One of these days I'll try and make time to.have a shooting session with both my 34s and a 45.
I think that a carbine 45 would have been better handling and have a quicker action that even a 34. But that's something that will have to.be marked down as "what could have been".
Dave