Sensei
05-24-2018, 07:52 PM
I bought this pistol back in 1995 as my first 1911. As you can see, it was fairly no frills:
26558
Normally, I send my 1911s to Wilson for rebuilds, but I happen to live 10 minutes from a local shop that has built a stellar reputation around NC. So, I sent it off to Ryan at Aquilla Custom Guns in East Bend, NC for a rebuild and fit with top notch parts including:
1) Smith and Alexander Mag well
2) Wilson thumb safety, extractor, guide rod, spring, plug
3) Ed Brown Grip Safety, mag release, slide stop
4) Dawson tritium front sight
5) Harrison tritium rear
6) Tune and reliability package
7) Stiple front strap and mainspring housing, complete dehorn, and hard chrome
8) Flush cut and reverse crown the existing national match barrel
9) VZ grips
I left the stock national match trigger because it was excellent
This is the result:
26560
26562
26565
I took it to the range twice since I picking it up 2 days ago. Day one was a 100-round breaking with 230 grain FAE. Yesterday was another 125 rounds including 16-round 10-8 Extractor test (passed) and 25 rounds of 230 grain HST. No failures so far and all rounds fired from either 8-round Wilson ETM or 47DE magazines.
26558
Normally, I send my 1911s to Wilson for rebuilds, but I happen to live 10 minutes from a local shop that has built a stellar reputation around NC. So, I sent it off to Ryan at Aquilla Custom Guns in East Bend, NC for a rebuild and fit with top notch parts including:
1) Smith and Alexander Mag well
2) Wilson thumb safety, extractor, guide rod, spring, plug
3) Ed Brown Grip Safety, mag release, slide stop
4) Dawson tritium front sight
5) Harrison tritium rear
6) Tune and reliability package
7) Stiple front strap and mainspring housing, complete dehorn, and hard chrome
8) Flush cut and reverse crown the existing national match barrel
9) VZ grips
I left the stock national match trigger because it was excellent
This is the result:
26560
26562
26565
I took it to the range twice since I picking it up 2 days ago. Day one was a 100-round breaking with 230 grain FAE. Yesterday was another 125 rounds including 16-round 10-8 Extractor test (passed) and 25 rounds of 230 grain HST. No failures so far and all rounds fired from either 8-round Wilson ETM or 47DE magazines.