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Blogging to you from the Northeastern Badlands of The County of Lake, in the state currently known as Fatmanistan, DEEP DEEP DEEP DEEP DEEP inside the heartland of the Banana Republic formerly known as the USA, WELCOME TO THE NEXT CHAPTER! WARNING! ALL FORMS OF SOCIAL MEDIA ARE ADDICTIVE; EXCESSIVE USE MAY LEAD TO MENTAL HEALTH DISORDERS, REDUCED JOB PRODUCTIVITY, INSOMNIA, SOCIAL ALIENATION, GENITAL ULCERS, BLINDNESS, POLITICAL EROTICISM, AND / OR DEVIANT FUNAMBULISM. NOTICE: NO GUNS OR AMMUNITION ARE FOR SALE VIA THIS BLOG. (No, I will not trade my Colt Python for some lubricious adventures with your trophy wife and a future first-round draft pick.) CAVEAT: This blog is not suitable for viewing while at work, while inside a public library, while inside any public or private school, or while inside any public or private restroom. Do not view this blog while driving a motor vehicle or while piloting an aircraft. Viewing this blog may be illegal inside the EU, NYC, Chicago, Seattle, and other parts of the Third World. THIS BLOG CONTAINS (albeit often very childish) ADULT-CONTENT. DISCLAIMER: This blog is a hobby, it is not a livelihood. Even though much of what I blog about relates to firearms collecting and recreational shooting, I am not an expert (by any measure) on any facet of guns, shooting, hunting, or personal defense. Entries at this blog are akin to good old-fashioned campfire chats or post hunt bourbon-fueled barroom-bluster; I offer no opinion on what you should or should not purchase, or what you should be using or doing. What does or does not work for me could be rugged-country-miles away from your tastes and your needs. All products, places, and miscellany that I review for this blog are purchased / rented / leased at retail price by me. I do not accept payment, gifts, discounts, freebies, products on loan, distilled spirits, recreational pharmaceuticals, plea-bargains, probation, parole, Papal Blessings, Presidential Pardons, or sexual favors for doing any review or blog post. TRACKING COOKIES: Google et al stick tracking cookies on everybody. If you are online, you are being spied on via one method or another, for one reason or another; 'nuff said. You may be able to minimize your online DNA residue by using Tor and Duck Duck Go. Vive la liberté! Vive all y'all! Ante omnia armari. To each of you, thanks for stopping by!
I don't have any M1911 pistols in my collection, only variants of the M1911A1. Wish I did, just to have one, but the examples I've come across over the years have been to pricey.
ReplyDeleteUnless it was something with an abysmal chrome finish, I never saw a bargain priced 1911 either. I paid more than I wanted for this one, thinking it would probably be a "last chance" for that vintage. Not that I have been shopping for another, so far this century I don't recall seeing one at any of our local stores.
ReplyDeleteI once had a 1911 whose S/N indicated it had been shipped to the Army in 1913. It was fun to think about where that gun had been, given the size of the army at the time (Mexico with Pershing? The Philippines? Meuse-Argonne?). And I liked the duck-bill hammer and the wider (it seemed to me) frame-mounted safety. But the hammer bit me and I didn't trust the metallurgy with modern ammo, so I no longer have it. If I'd waited a few decades to sell it, I'd be RICH! Oh, well. . . .
ReplyDeleteHey there Old 1811! Golly, it is great to hear from you again.
ReplyDeleteI've noticed that many slides on these pre A1 pistols looked a little soft; many slide stop notches are rounded and poorly redone; this one wasn't too bad. The Agentine 1927 A1 style pistol I have has a visible mark of being hardened in the area of the slide stop notch. Both this one and the Argentine bite the heck outta by hand; last range trip I got a nasty infection. The safety notch on this slide also looks soft and somehow got disfigured; it may have suffered a had drop.
Yeah, just as you said, the activity of the US Armed Forces between WW1 and WW2 may have put these old Colts in some exotic situations. It is like holding a handful of history.