During the 2020 Annual Shooting, Hunting and Outdoor Trade (SHOT) Show in Las Vegas, Nevada, we stepped out of the halls for an hour or so to test fire some fresh off the milling machine 1911 pistols made by Cobalt Kinetics. We first got word of these brand new handguns a few months back when Cobalt’s Skylar Stewart told us that he was abandoning the AR market and going to take a run at making higher-end 1911 pistols. Their rifles would drop magazines automatically when they ran dry, the dual forward assists acted as bolt drops that could be deployed by the shooter’s thumb, but the real cutting edge components were their brake and buffer systems that mitigated recoil and muzzle rise.