Back in the early/mid 90s I had a buddy that tended to buy whatever gun I bought and was influenced by what I was doing, shooting sports wise. I was shooting USPSA and using primarily single stack 1911s and the then new Glock 21 .45. I carried and used an old Colt Series 70 for much of that time. My friend wanting to do something similar, picked up an 80 Series Colt, bone stock. He asked me what mods he should have done. I told him just a few things, such as sight work, trigger work, a beavertail, and magwell. I said, you don't need a bunch of extended this and that.
I sent him to the same smith I used. My friend pretty much did the exact opposite of what I advised. Huge Ambi safeties, big mag funnel. Instead of sticking with the traditional recoil spring and plug, he read a gun rag and learned about the amazing "Dwyer Group Gripper" that would make him shoot like a Navy SEAL... or something like that. Plus he had the biggest damned clown shoe for a magazine release button I have ever seen.
As was typical, he got hard up for money, and he sold the gun for less than the price of the gunsmithing bill and parts. My dad ended up buying it. Eventually I ended up with it and took pretty much everything off of it. I had been talking about this gun and the ridiculous parts that had been on it just a few days ago with a friend, and sure enough, today I ran across the clown shoe in a little plastic baggy, while looking for a decapping pin for one of my loading machines.
Then looking in the box further, I found the Group Gripper.
You can see the stock mag release button is still threaded for the clown shoe.
So, just for kicks and to see what it looked like as it has been more than 25 years since it has been on the gun, I installed it.
Holy Heck! LOL.
Yep, still looks like a clown shoe as I remember!