1911 Show-N-Tell

[WhitleyStu]

S&W Performance Center 1911 (5") wearing new VZ 320 grips...

 

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S&W Performance Center 1911 (5") wearing new VZ 320 grips...

Picture already!!!!

edit: Now that's the good stuff

 

[Fordtough25]

I love this thread. Woot!

 

[bjenkins]

Sweeeeeet looking gun! Enjoy

 

[tat2clod]

Great looking piece your avatar is not bad either

 

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Feels good to be back in the 1911 club

And now I see this in the classifieds. That makes me sad. Can't you sell a Glock or something else?

 

[JetGirl]

A little history about a neat gun. This started off as a Mil-Spec that went straight to GunSite from Springfield's factory. It's a pre-2002 (only two position *clicks* when cocking the hammer instead of three). I'm trying to track down specifics to find which smith did the work and what year...
But here are the obvious things;
1) Trigger job
2) Novak sights
3) Checkered front strap and MSH
4) Enhanced Hammer
5) Swept beavertail
6) Two-piece guide rod
7) Ambi-safety
8) complete De-horn
9) Bead blast (?) finish
10) Checkered front trigger guard
11) skeletonized trigger
12) Lowered flared ejection port
I'll post up more when I find who did the work, and maybe what else was done.

 

[ChristianPatriot]

And now I see this in the classifieds. That makes me sad. Can't you sell a Glock or something else?

Don't worry, it's getting replaced by a Springfield Armory Champion Operator. Which is the one I should've waited and bought in the first place. Unfortunately I'm not to the point that I can afford to purchase multiple guns. One at a time for the foreseeable future.

 

[JetGirl]

So, I sent an inquiry to Springfield and to GunSite looking for info on which smith did the re-build. Apparently, if your serial starts "N" but you also have "FI Brazil" that's not very common. Maybe that will make it easier to track down.

 

[Birds Away]

That is a sweet gun, JG.

 

[AllenM]

A little history about a neat gun. This started off as a Mil-Spec that went straight to GunSite from Springfield's factory. It's a pre-2002 (only two position *clicks* when cocking the hammer instead of three). I'm trying to track down specifics to find which smith did the work and what year...
But here are the obvious things;
1) Trigger job
2) Novak sights
3) Checkered front strap and MSH
4) Enhanced Hammer
5) Swept beavertail
6) Two-piece guide rod
7) Ambi-safety
8) complete De-horn
9) Bead blast (?) finish
10) Checkered front trigger guard
11) skeletonized trigger
12) Lowered flared ejection port
I'll post up more when I find who did the work, and maybe what else was done.

Nice

 

[JetGirl]

That is a sweet gun, JG.

Nice

Thanks. All I've found so far is that it was GunSite during the "Cooper Era". Tracking stuff down has proven to be kinda fun.

 

[88E30M50]

A little history about a neat gun. This started off as a Mil-Spec that went straight to GunSite from Springfield's factory. It's a pre-2002 (only two position *clicks* when cocking the hammer instead of three). I'm trying to track down specifics to find which smith did the work and what year...
But here are the obvious things;
1) Trigger job
2) Novak sights
3) Checkered front strap and MSH
4) Enhanced Hammer
5) Swept beavertail
6) Two-piece guide rod
7) Ambi-safety
8) complete De-horn
9) Bead blast (?) finish
10) Checkered front trigger guard
11) skeletonized trigger
12) Lowered flared ejection port
I'll post up more when I find who did the work, and maybe what else was done.

Nice JG! I'm a sucker for stainless pistols. And for 1911s. So, a stainless 1911 is the stuff of dreams.

 

[dcombs]

 

[ghitch75]

close but no cigar.....

 

[teddy12b]

Oh no you didn't.

 

[Grifd21]

Got to shoot a buddy of mine's Kimber 1911 a while back and loved it, been a fan ever since. I think your LB definitely aces the eyeball test - good lookin gun!

 

[JetGirl]

What is this I don't even

 

[IndyGlockMan]

Thanks. All I've found so far is that it was GunSite during the "Cooper Era". Tracking stuff down has proven to be kinda fun.

If it was worked on by Cooper at Gunsite, it could be worth a little more from what I read about it.
See if you can get some documentation on it. Might go far if you ever sell it.

I had that gun in my gubby little fingers and let it go....
At least you can thank me for bringing the gun to your attention.
You probably never gave it a 2nd look until I started drooling all over it... LOL

 

[JetGirl]

If it was worked on by Cooper at Gunsite, it could be worth a little more from what I read about it.
See if you can get some documentation on it. Might go far if you ever sell it.

As far as Springfield could tell me, it left their facility and went to (Orange) Gunsite in '90 (post Thief, pre- Heat) before Cooper sold it.
Gunsite has the serial and I'm waiting to hear back about which smith might have done the build and if they can tell me anything about the classes it may have been used to run. Too late for the Selleck era (rats! )

I had that gun in my gubby little fingers and let it go....
At least you can thank me for bringing the gun to your attention.
You probably never gave it a 2nd look until I started drooling all over it... LOL

True story. It came in during day shift, got shelved below, and I never even noticed it...