{"id":35205,"date":"2015-05-31T15:26:58","date_gmt":"2015-05-31T19:26:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/blog\/?p=35205"},"modified":"2015-05-31T15:26:58","modified_gmt":"2023-08-18T15:22:39","slug":"nighthawk-t4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/nighthawk-t4\/","title":{"rendered":"The Single Stack 9mm Perfected–Nighthawk T4"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Nighthawk T4 is still recognizably a 1911, but it has a lot of design changes that make it unique.<\/p><\/div>\n

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The very first pistol I ever shot was a Colt 1911. I’m pretty sure it was WWII era A1. I was a senior in high school at the time, and had one magazine worth of .45 ACP and a target about 25 yards away. If you had asked me before I shot it what I thought of the gun, I’d have told you it was the greatest gun ever, and that I was about to put seven rounds in a hole the size of a dime.<\/p>\n

I didn’t. I shot the old pistol and felt let down. Not only did I miss with most of the shots, but I had a hard time holding the thing. And the controls were impossible to reach. I should say that I was much smaller than I am now, but still–I’d expected the experience to cement my life-long love of the 1911.<\/p>\n

I didn’t shoot another one for 15 years. In that time, I shot everything else I could get my hands on, but I’d all but given up on the old single action. When I finally came back, I looked at the gun as an artifact. I thought about the 1911 the same way I thought of the 1873 Colt, or the Mauser C96. Fascinating, yes, but more of a footnote than a firearm I’d carry every day.<\/p>\n

You can probably guess that those opinions have changed. Big time. There were a number of guns that influenced this–1911s from venerable companies that all make hard working 1911s. Yet it is the upper tier of single actions that really has my mind spinning. And I’ve added another company to my list of must-own-guns. Nighthawk Custom. If there was ever a gun company that refused to let the 1911 become a footnote, it is Nighthawk Custom.<\/p>\n

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The T4 is an eveoltution of Nighthawk’s Talon line of Pistols, and is built around the 9mm cartridge.<\/p><\/div>\n

On with the review…<\/h2>\n

Sometimes companies send us guns to review. They just show up magically. Other times, we make requests that get filled (sooner or later). Nighthawk doesn’t have pistols earmarked for review writers to take out and beat up. We tend to keep them too long, and push them to their limits. Still, I went up to the Nighthawk shop to see first hand how the guns were made–hoping that I might get my hands on a gun for an afternoon. Alas, no. I spent the better part of a day talking to the smiths at Nighthawk, and got my hands on some really good Arkansas barbeque, but the never-ending rain kept us from shooting.<\/p>\n

Imagine my surprise when a friend handed me his T4 a couple of weeks later. He was carrying it at the time, so he pulled off his belt, dropped the mag and unloaded the gun. He passed me the gun knowing full well what I was going to do with it. I remember the look on his face. It was a kind of knowing confidence.<\/p>\n

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The controls on the Nighthawks are all machined, not molded. This adds significant strength to the parts most likely to break.<\/p><\/div>\n

The Nighthawk T4 Talon<\/h2>\n