What is truly the best pistol ever the browning hi-power or the M1911 ?

For its era and the impact that it had on firearms design and the world in general. The Colt Patterson revolver designed by Samuel Colt in the USA was the best pistol design ever. It was the first effective and reliable repeating handgun, it held five rounds in its cylinder and was a cap and ball revolver. The same basic design evolved to become the Walker Colt, the Colt Dragoons, the Colt 1851 Navy, and the Colt 1860 Army, and all of the variants of the last two, and finally the Colt single action army. It was introduced in 1836, and the first major design improvements: a loading lever and a capping cut-out, were added in 1839 allowing it to be loaded without disassembly.