This L.A.R. Grizzly pistol is 1 Of 20 manufactured in 1988 for Great Northern Guns as Toklat Specials, named after a location and river in Denali Park, Alaska, which derived its name from the Tanana word for "cloudy white water". 
TJ’s Latest Custom Handguns
By Joe Berk
I had lunch with good buddy TJ (of TJ’s Custom Gunworks) recently and he showed me an LAR Grizzly .45 Winchester Magnum handgun he recently completed. It’s wild. It’s the one you see in the photo above and in the additional photos below. Here’s TJ’s description:
The Path of Bushido, a custom L.A.R. Grizzly .45 Winchester Magnum (it’s a supersized 1911). This handgun is Duracoated with Skulls of Death and Kanji characters depicting the seven Samurai virtues of the Bushido. This magnum features the typical 1911 match action, trigger, and reliability work, as well as barrel and bushing clearance reduction. The gun also has melted edges, a speckled Duracoat finish, a Bullet-guide rod, and Millett target sights with orange DayGlo on the front. 
LAR Grizzly 10” 
Top gun is an 8" 45 WinMag. 
Shipped in the white and subsequently custom finished in 1930s Colt's style by Master Gunsmith Daniel Cullity and equipped with Cullity custom gold dot fixed front and adjustable rear sights on the serrated flat top slide. The slide has the initials "WHDG" inlaid in gold just ahead of the rear sight. The front grip strap is fine line checkered. Standard markings, equipped with a compensator and fitted with checkered walnut diamond grips. 
Comped Vietnam Tiger Camouflage Grizzly.45 Magnum Custom!
FULL CUSTOM L.A.R. Grizzly Mark 1 .45WM Winchester Magnum
6 Layer Viet Nam Tiger Camouflage Duracoating
Custom 5-Port "TJ 1911 TRI-MAG COMPENSATOR"
Millett Target Sights with Yellow DayGlo Highlighting,
Then Upgraded to a Leupold Red Dot DeltaPoint Scope with Custom Dovetail Low Profile Mount
Satin Polished Barrel, Semi-Bobbed Hammer With 1-Way deepened Serrations
TJ Series 1 Wide Beaver Tail Grip Safety, Extended Thumb Safety & Slide Release
TJ's Deluxe Action Work Package Taking the Trigger Pull Down To 2.5lbs and Crisp As Glass Breaking!
Level 1 Reliability Package To Ensure Complete Functional Reliability
( Throat & Polish + Fit & Polish Extractor + Commander Type Extended Ejector + Polish Breech Face ) 
" This LAR Grizzly is actually a special one and perhaps the most unique.
The movie The Shadow featured dual pistols that were in fact not just 1911’s
but customized direct from LAR Grizzly pistols for the film". 
L.A.R. Grizzly Mark V in .50AEDeveloped in the early 1980s by Perry Arnett, the LAR Grizzly was manufactured from 1983 until 1998. It was an expensive gun (base price was $675 in 1985), a huge gun (48oz / 1.36kg), and a powerful gun – its .45 Winchester Magnum cartridge throws a 230 grain bullet at 1450 feet/sec (15g @ 450 m/s). What is such a gun good for? Well, three things. Handgun hunting, metallic silhouette competition, and when someone wants the monster truck of the handgun world.
Mechanically, the Grizzly is basically a scaled-up 1911 Government Model – and in a wise production decision, it shares many small parts with the 1911. The Mark I Grizzly was offered in .357 Magnum, .45 ACP, and .45 Winchester Magnum, with conversion kits being offer for easy swapping between those calibers. Additional option were added later on, including 10mm Auto and 9mm Winchester Magnum.
When the Mark IV was introduced it was chambered for the .44 Magnum cartridge, and the Mark V was in .50 Action Express. For the record, the Mark II was simply a parkerized version of the Mark I, and the Mark III apparently was a prototype that never went into production. In total, about 13,500 Grizzlies were manufactured.
Of all the magnum automatics, the Grizzly is one of the less exotic and the more reliable, thanks to its 1911 heritage. While it had a steep price tag, it was a reliable shooter right out of the box and offered a quite good trigger pull, good adjustable sights, and quite good accuracy. Some magnum automatics are best suited to natural tinkerers; the Grizzly was a better choice for someone who just wanted to shoot.
https://www.forgottenweapons.com/lar-grizzly-a-1911-on-45-winchester-magnum-steroids/ ====================================
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=doI_XyWTN6w&ab_channel=BobbyCee The Howdah 1911 is built on an LAR Grizzly Mark I in .45 Winchester Magnum, and is a Ned Christiansen creation!
Ned built this as a pistol for” dangerous game hunting”… especially tigers. It has express sights of his own design (made to resemble African double gun sights). Made from a piece of 4130 barstock, 100% custom. Both front and rear have tritium inserts recessed forward, the front's tritium lamp is in a large diameter ivory insert. Premium components have been used to replace the fire control group.
Ned reduced its girth as much as possible by machining down the mainspring housing. The mainspring housing and frontstrap (high-cut for greater control) both feature a modified Conamyd pattern. The superlative ivory grips are from Nutmeg Sports, scrimshawed to his design as communicated to them in hand drawn sketches. The magazine well is nicely opened up although if you are reloading during a tiger attack you may be in trouble! The bluing is awesome and was done for by Glenrock Bluing in Glenrock, WY.
