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Post by zeus on May 11, 2022 6:21:35 GMT -5
A $10,000 gun in my $500 hands with $300 eyes doesn't accomplish much. -Stan 🤣🤣🤣 I know the feeling these days!
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Post by woody on May 11, 2022 19:44:04 GMT -5
Not sure of the history of this gun. It’s new to me but man is it a shooter!!!! Caspian slide/frame with a Kart barrel. Only thing I need To add is a ambidextrous safety.
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Post by squawberryman on May 12, 2022 7:08:08 GMT -5
Nah
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Post by AxeHandle on May 12, 2022 17:14:56 GMT -5
History? This one was built in the 70s by the old time original Air Force MTU gunsmith Forest Davis. I bought it used in '78. Pre series 70 commercial Colt, Colt NM barrel, Bomar rib and a gunsmith touch that can't be bought. Might not look so elegant to the $13000 1911 buyers but... Like others that live at my house. Stick them in a Ransom rest. Bring your $13000 gun and your money. My recommendation? Don't bring any money you can't afford to loose. Tale I was told was Davis retired from the AF and opened up a shop in San Antonio with Bob Day. This gun has the address of the original shop on the back side of the mainspring housing. He lived in Columbus Mississippi when I got this gun.
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Post by cmillard on May 12, 2022 20:09:56 GMT -5
I have been wanting to get at DW specialist. I was at Brownells sometime last year and they had a DW and an Ed Brown and put them both in my hands and worked the slide. At much less expensive than the Ed Brown, I was thoroughly impressed. I have not been able to score on one since. The galling is kind of interesting to me.....why wouldnt they make the slide harder than the frame or would that not prevent it?
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Post by AxeHandle on May 13, 2022 5:19:29 GMT -5
1911s with proper metalurgy do not gall. I remember an early AMT hardballer in the 70s whose slide to frame galled very bad. Thought it was just a stainless on stainless thing until Colt made a stainless 1911 that did not gall and proved me wrong
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Post by cas on May 15, 2022 22:16:20 GMT -5
Didn't they do this by using two different types / grades of stainless? Where as the AMT was all the same metal?
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Post by aciera on May 15, 2022 22:20:14 GMT -5
Didn't they do this by using two different types / grades of stainless? Where as the AMT was all the same metal? Probably......works well that way. In pumps wear rings are different
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Post by maxcactus on May 16, 2022 1:48:08 GMT -5
Didn't they do this by using two different types / grades of stainless? Where as the AMT was all the same metal? That was my understanding as well. I'm no metallurgist, however.
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Post by squawberryman on May 19, 2022 15:21:40 GMT -5
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Post by bradshaw on May 19, 2022 21:36:36 GMT -5
Didn't they do this by using two different types / grades of stainless? Where as the AMT was all the same metal? ***** Among 1911’s I’ve had the misfortune to handle & shoot, the AMT ranks somewhere around the wax donut under a toilet. Plenty loose enough to not gall, had the hardware been of a grade for respectable firearms manufacture. A craze for stainless firearms had erupted, and AMT was there to cash in. I warned a shooting buddy to avoid the shiny metal until Colt put its roll mark on it. Since then we both put the paw on Series 80 stainless Colts, and shot them side-by-side to hit a seven foot piece of steel @ 400 yards. My stainless Colt uses Anti-Seize Compound to lube rails and barrel support areas, which shifts to moly-disulfide or synthetic motor oil for hard cold. Les Baer told me he will not fit stainless as firmly as carbon. David Bradshaw
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Post by cmillard on May 20, 2022 7:18:47 GMT -5
Not to hijack this, but Standard Manufacturing is offering some pretty sharp 1911s, just can't attest to their true quality as I haven't held one.
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Post by kooz on May 20, 2022 19:17:04 GMT -5
I had a Standard for a while , very accurate gun and 100% reliable . Their exterior dimensions are slightly different/bigger than a basic 1911, they are heavier and holsters for a basic 1911 are too tight for the standard . Also have a couple mil-specs with Novak sights and they are great guns as well .
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Post by squawberryman on May 25, 2022 16:33:10 GMT -5
Bigbrowndog has a Singer going up in a couple weeks. It'll be interesting to hear just how loud that gavel bangs.
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Post by aciera on May 26, 2022 18:45:12 GMT -5
Bigbrowndog has a Singer going up in a couple weeks. It'll be interesting to hear just how loud that gavel bangs. About 2017 a Singer went for $414k.......
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