Not sure about the design distance limitation, as JMB used to love roaming the desert with his pre-1911 prototype 1908, and normal NIB to-milspec gun with looser tolerance for passing the Army 5000rd trials (never since equalled) can still bounce cans (not saying from hits) at 50-100yds, plus, it was originally a cavalry gun "able to founder a horse".

I remember Loveless and his idea of melted...wow...talk about radical bob job. Never thought it attractive, but certainly bar of soap snag free, for sure. I almost bought a knife from him, but, despite his talk of wanting real people using, rather than collecting his knives, he quoted starving me a price of $2000 on a little fighter boot knife which was $150 only 7yrs earlier and the only price I knew and which money I had scraped up. He also was the main showman claiming his etched blades were stronger than "other makers" who stamped theirs, even though the Army had tested that concern years earlier and found no difference.