notsorichguy
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I have come across a WWII 1911, I have already purchased it and now I'm unsure of how to proceed....
Its in bad shape. Somebody before me has done some 'work' to it.
It was sandblasted, slide cut for after market sights, Slide blanked as was the frame. I can just barely make out Pr****t* o* *** U*****S**tes Go*****m*nt (property of the unitedstates government) above an almost unreadable serial #.
The re-park job was botched, and it starting to rust through.
The frame and slide both show neumerous 'marks', around the mag well, on the front strap, top of the slide and on the dust cover. The previous 'renovation' tried to repair/remove the heavy patina and some of the more obrusive marking but some 'pock marks' and scars can still be seen. In my immaginative mind I see this pistol being 'used' in defense of some hill somewhere or in the attack of said hill. The marks are from use, and not from range queen type use if you get my drift. Any marks that were not REALLY deep would have been removed when the slide and frame were blanked IMHO
I'll attach a really crappy pic I have, I could take better ones, but I really don't see the point......
Anyway I guess my question is do I keep it as is, (the trigger is perfect) it is a decent shooter (4" @ 25y) and the sights are better than originals as far as useablity goes. I did have to change out the slide stop as the one that came with the pistol doesn't work.... At all! I had a Nork one in the tickle trunk and it works flawlwssly.
Or do I have it re-blasted and re-blued? Cleaned up and made to look 'purty'. Change out the sight again to something a bit more to my liking?
Or do I try to return it to its former glory as a 40's era 1911?
In interest of full disclosure, when I bought it I was told it was a 'rough' series 70 colt, so I bought it as a project gun..... So I'm leaning to doing what I wanted in the first place...... It's worthless as a 'collectable' (again IMO).
Its in bad shape. Somebody before me has done some 'work' to it.
It was sandblasted, slide cut for after market sights, Slide blanked as was the frame. I can just barely make out Pr****t* o* *** U*****S**tes Go*****m*nt (property of the unitedstates government) above an almost unreadable serial #.
The re-park job was botched, and it starting to rust through.
The frame and slide both show neumerous 'marks', around the mag well, on the front strap, top of the slide and on the dust cover. The previous 'renovation' tried to repair/remove the heavy patina and some of the more obrusive marking but some 'pock marks' and scars can still be seen. In my immaginative mind I see this pistol being 'used' in defense of some hill somewhere or in the attack of said hill. The marks are from use, and not from range queen type use if you get my drift. Any marks that were not REALLY deep would have been removed when the slide and frame were blanked IMHO
I'll attach a really crappy pic I have, I could take better ones, but I really don't see the point......
Anyway I guess my question is do I keep it as is, (the trigger is perfect) it is a decent shooter (4" @ 25y) and the sights are better than originals as far as useablity goes. I did have to change out the slide stop as the one that came with the pistol doesn't work.... At all! I had a Nork one in the tickle trunk and it works flawlwssly.
Or do I have it re-blasted and re-blued? Cleaned up and made to look 'purty'. Change out the sight again to something a bit more to my liking?
Or do I try to return it to its former glory as a 40's era 1911?
In interest of full disclosure, when I bought it I was told it was a 'rough' series 70 colt, so I bought it as a project gun..... So I'm leaning to doing what I wanted in the first place...... It's worthless as a 'collectable' (again IMO).
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