Colt commander 1911 wiley clapp biography

          Dad started me shooting at age four, graduating from a Colt Service Ace to a in ACP at about nine or Dad carried a Thompson SMG and a in all....

          Wiley Clapp was a Marine, a dedicated police officer, and gun writer with an encyclopedic amount of knowledge on firearms.

          Who is Wiley Clapp? I’ve seen the name attached to Ruger revolvers and Colt Commanders. I had no idea who or what a Wiley Clapp was. This isn’t meant to be any form of disrespect, there are lots of things I don’t know, but I do like learning.

          I wanted to uncover who Wiley Clapp is. Why is his name attached to a certain handguns?

          Wiley Clapp – The Man 

          It turns out Wiley Clapp was pretty instrumental in the gun world. He was a very prolific gun writer.

          I seemed to have just missed him and most of his work as I got into guns and gun magazines.

          The CCO offers good concealment with its short grip frame and excellent shootability and reliability due to the Commander top end with its 5¾.

        1. The CCO offers good concealment with its short grip frame and excellent shootability and reliability due to the Commander top end with its 5¾.
        2. The Colt Wiley Clapp Stainless Commander, a TALO exclusive, features “Everything you need, nothing you don't” when it comes to ACP protection.
        3. Dad started me shooting at age four, graduating from a Colt Service Ace to a in ACP at about nine or Dad carried a Thompson SMG and a in all.
        4. The Combat Commander was a commercial success—an all-steel style pistol, with the inch barrel and slide.
        5. The Colt Wiley Clapp Lightweight Commander in 9 mm Luger was designed in part by its namesake long-time American Rifleman Field Editor.

          6. Wiley Clapp wrote for and, as of 2022, still writes for Shooting Illustrated. After learning a bit about the man, I’m sad to have missed his work as I grew up. Shooting Illustrated wasn’t stocked at the local grocery store I got my magazines. 

          Wiley Clapp has been a gun writer for decades now.

          Beyond writing for magazines, he has written numerous firearms books, including being a coauthor of