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Some Colt Delta Elite 10mm love....

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Back in the day had Armco fit a SA factory barrel in .40 S&W to it, to be able to utilize all the once fired factory .40 S&W brass left laying around the local ranges after the city/municipal law enforcement members do their bi-annual qualifications. Kinda best of both worlds. :cool:
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I had a new model stainless Colt Delta Elite. Terrific pistol with a bit of a kick compared to 9mm. I regret selling it. 1911s and CZ85's are my favorite pistols. I tried out many striker fired pistols but they just don't work for me.
 
Cranberry sauce is great for holidays and special occasions, but for daily use I prefer Hoppes no.9 or G96 myself.

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gdawg said:
Great project. I'm a big fan of the long slide 1911. I have a 6", but have been tempted to get a 7" slide assembly from Fusion.
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Lemme tell you, a 7" 1911 is a LOT of gun. If the radius bone in my forearm were shattered beyond repair, they could actually rebuild my arm around that slide as its replacement - it's THAT big.

As of now, after a couple weeks of filing, I have the rear of the slide about halfway across the front ejector-leg hole. About 3/4" from battery IIRC, so roughly 2.75" to go and then it's time to start lapping for a "slides under its own weight" fit.
 
NAA said:
Speaking off long slides, I owned this curiosity for a brief period in the past. I never did have any info on it's providence, but it shot ok.

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Sadly, it looked like someone bubba'd a nice "C" prefix 12,### serial number commercial Colt 1911 back in the day to do it. :(

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That looks like one of the original Jim Clark longslides. There was nothing bubba about his work, many competitors had him work on their guns.
 
Diamondback Six said:
That looks like one of the original Jim Clark longslides. There was nothing bubba about his work, many competitors had him work on their guns.
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Yes, I was pretty much aware that it was someone's custom back in the day. My bubba comment was the ruining of a piece of Canadian history in doing so. A "C" prefix, Colt commercial, was likely one of the Canadian contract Colts that saw WWI service.

Would be akin to someone in the USA taking a WWII Union Switch & Signal or Singer 1911A1 & using it to make a 'race gun'. :(

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Anyone know what ever happened to Gunnar at Armco? I had a couple of guns caught up in the police raid maybe 10 years back but that was the last time he did any work for me.
 
dan belisle said:
Sold his business and retired. I don't think it was because of the police raid. - dan
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Didn't he pass away a few years ago?

I know I had a custom top hat reverse guide plug Series 70 slide from him.. I was shooting IPSC and had issues so went to the safe area to fix it. Well that got launched somewheres in the berm never to be found again. Had to get Gunnar to make me a new one.
 
My 1st 1911 when I was 17... Thanks Pop's. Back when Adam Arms was still around in Dartmouth NS.

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Got a Caspian slide for it. That when I put STI full internals in it. For the 2004 NB IPSC Provincals Championships. Unfortunately, I didn't test it before shooting the match. As we just got it back from the smith the night before.

Litterally dropped off 700$ in parts to the smith and you got 2 days to assemble it.

The ammo I had was too long for the barsto match barrel.

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NAA said:
Yes, I was pretty much aware that it was someone's custom back in the day. My bubba comment was the ruining of a piece of Canadian history in doing so. A "C" prefix, Colt commercial, was likely one of the Canadian contract Colts that saw WWI service.

Would be akin to someone in the USA taking a WWII Union Switch & Signal or Singer 1911A1 & using it to make a 'race gun'. :(

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And yet there was a time that firearms with WWI and/or WWII provenance were as cheap and plentiful as dirt and there wasn't any reason not to use some of them as the basis for customization and those folks didn't anticipate them becoming scarce and valuable at least in their own lifetimes. And I don't think that changed rapidly enough for anyone to notice it much happening. And yet here we are.
 
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