Posted: 1/18/2010 3:11:06 PM EDT
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Ok fellas, a family member picked up this Colt 1911 recently from an estate sale. I ran the serial number and it comes out as an 1943 model. Now please dont HATE on the gun, it was just purchased that way. It seems that the slide was ported as well as the dust cover, and some sort of indentation on top of the slide as well. It was stamped with a prancing pony and the words COLT on the indentation. A gunsmith buddy said that maybe it had some custom work done from Colt but he wasnt too sure. The slide has a lot of wear due to the gun being stored in a leather holster inside a safe, so I'm sure the humidity did a number on it. I'm guessing it was refinished in chrome as well. From what the seller has said was that the gun could have probably sat in the safe for 20 plus years, although there is no way to prove this. BTW the gun shoots like a dream. Anyway would anyone know by chance if this "custom" work really could have been done by Colt. Thanks for any help fellas.
Also please save the " OH MY GOD WHAT HAPPENED TO THAT CLASSIC 1911" comments to yourself, as I have already heard it a THOUSAND freakin times 
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Quoted: Ok fellas, a family member picked up this Colt 1911 recently from an estate sale. I ran the serial number and it comes out as an 1943 model. Now please dont HATE on the gun, it was just purchased that way. It seems that the slide was ported as well as the dust cover, and some sort of indentation on top of the slide as well. It was stamped with a prancing pony and the words COLT on the indentation. A gunsmith buddy said that maybe it had some custom work done from Colt but he wasnt too sure. The slide has a lot of wear due to the gun being stored in a leather holster inside a safe, so I'm sure the humidity did a number on it. I'm guessing it was refinished in chrome as well. From what the seller has said was that the gun could have probably sat in the safe for 20 plus years, although there is no way to prove this. BTW the gun shoots like a dream. Anyway would anyone know by chance if this "custom" work really could have been done by Colt. Thanks for any help fellas. Also please save the " OH MY GOD WHAT HAPPENED TO THAT CLASSIC 1911" comments to yourself, as I have already heard it a THOUSAND freakin times o http://i967.photobucket.com/albums/ae158/instructor25/100_0223.jpg http://i967.photobucket.com/albums/ae158/instructor25/100_0222.jpg http://i967.photobucket.com/albums/ae158/instructor25/100_0220-1.jpg The rear sight looks like a factory item, for the early Ace Conversions... 
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Quoted: Thanks GUNNYG I was hoping that those were still factory sight's Glad that I could help! Between 1937 and WWII, Colt used the Stevens rear sight, like yours, for its target pistols. Postwar pistols were made with their own "Coltmaster" sight. http://www.sightm1911.com/lib/history/colt_ace.htm |
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Well, it's certainly different looking. It doesn't hurt as much to think it was years ago when it was screwed with. I remember reading on here where a guy said that back in the 60's, they used to have a barrel of 1911's at a local autoparts store that were for sale for $15. Old GI guns weren't always the hallowed firearms they are today. |
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Well, it's certainly different looking. It doesn't hurt as much to think it was years ago when it was screwed with. I remember reading on here where a guy said that back in the 60's, they used to have a barrel of 1911's at a local autoparts store that were for sale for $15. Old GI guns weren't always the hallowed firearms they are today. 15 bucks huh  Thats outstanding
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