I believe that's what I'm going to do. Put a nice blue finish on it, keep it well maintained and enjoy. Need a steady supply of lead rounds for it now.Get some cast lead bullets and enjoy that old gun. I still shoot this one even with it's traced history that has been stamped into it. South with Pershing to chase Pancho Villa and then to France.
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Looks pretty good tho, far better than mine was.Mine- a 5-digit serial gun. I sure wish it had its original finish! Still a neat gun, though.
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Great to hear. Know anything of why they cry about the slide cracking so much? I know the metal is softer but surely not that soft.
That's a good looker. Someday when the funds are there and one comes up I will probably get one so I can shoot without care. Lol you got a pretty good deal there.I like them but never found an original I wanted to pay the price for so got an O1911 when they first came out.
It was marked something like $989 at Cabela's but when they scanned the code it came up $789. I told the lady
and she said the bar code came up at the cheaper price so that's what you get it for.
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I ordered a complete spring kit for it. 18.5lb recoil spring. Figured the recoil spring being stiffer would be best. Going to try to tune it so there is as little stress possible while firing.Springs. They are your friend.
Make sure they are "to factory spec", or replace them. Old guns are fine, old springs are not.
Stick with GI ball ammo, or equivalent cast load, and you should have no problems.
A cast 205gr semi-wadcutter over 4.2~4.5 grains of Red Dot has the potential for extreme accuracy, with velocities in the 780~850 fps range.
That's really cool you know all the history on yours. It appears to have alot of great history with it.Get some cast lead bullets and enjoy that old gun. I still shoot this one even with it's traced history that has been stamped into it. South with Pershing to chase Pancho Villa and then to France.
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That's really cool you know all the history on yours. It appears to have alot of great history with it.
That's really neat. Never have read about that little war. Will have to do some digging on it.When I bought it there were a lot of unfamiliar stamps in the frame, the guys on the Colt forum helped ID them. The pistol went to a New York cavalry group that went with Pershing to Mexico and then was merged into a larger cavalry unit that went to France during WW1. It then goes back to the national guard in New York which probably accounts for it's good condition. It never sees WW2.
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