Not a super special custom gun but I love it! It's a Colt CCG with some changes. I found it on a "for sale" forum several years ago and subjected my family to two four-hour (ish) drives to go do the private party paperwork in San Deigo. In CA we get to wait ten days to pick up a gun. I'm a huge fan of having no front serrations, vertical rear serrations, a ring hammer with a beavertail, short trigger, and Novak sights. It's a 90s classic custom look to me... The guns I grew up reading about. I'm thinking it's going to be my companion on a really big important (and very much life-changing) trip in the next couple weeks.
So... back to getting the gun... we're on our way back from the pickup and I decide to do some function checks and immediately notice the scant safety. UGGGHHH! In my excitement reading the add I thought the seller had said the gun came (like...from the factory) with a ring hammer. Instead, he was saying he had installed a Colt ring hammer. The factory CCG had the skeletonized modern style version. A new hammer often requires a new safety. Ok... Don't freak out... not that big of a deal. My department's Senior Armorer is more than the title... He's a very good pistol smith and likes to build 1911s. He replaced the safety with a Wilson Combat version (my preferred due to the beveling at the rear of the safety) and threw in a short trigger at the same time as well. It's reliable, accurate, and the only thing I'd like to do in the future is add a front sight with a gold bead just because.
The guitar background is a Fender Stratocaster Professional II that my wife bought me a bit over a year ago. It's a way better guitar than I deserve, but man it plays great.
Last edited by SoCalDep; 07-03-2022 at 06:22 PM.
FWIW, Kart has a PDFed article linked on their main page about accuracy results from various 1911 barrels in a test fixture (that is, not fired from a 1911, but fixed in place)...a factory Colt barrel (in fact, most non-junk 1911 barrels) aren't all that far apart at 50 yards with accuracy. I'm not saying it's not worth it to fit a barrel to the gun; don't get me wrong - I'm just saying, as great as Kart barrels are (and they are great, and a great company to do business with)...if time isn't an issue, you can make factory Colt barrels do some good work with some fitting. That is, from what I've read; I'm not a gunsmithOriginally Posted by Serpico1985
I have stripped a Jim Clark conversion of a Colt 1911 (in .45) that was originally done in '55. Shot so much that it had to be set back to Jim in '77 for a rebuild. On the rebuild he fitted a new Series '70 Colt barrel, so they were then up to his standards.
Jim Clark senior built .38 Special 6" longslide completed in 1970.
Meanwhile, at the budget end: Rental RIA "base" model I shot while on the road in the RV, back to back with my G34 game gun.
I hope to add a post in future with an ah, personally owned, 5" .45 (it won't be a RIA, however, good value though they are).
Man oh man…Jim Clark senior built .38 Special 6" longslide completed in 1970.
Ani't just a pretty thing? And, with his pistols, beauty wasn't merely skin deep.
Playing around with new holiday appropriate grip panels and background. Should have used more light...
Set up the light box and then played with the photo editor. Which one looks best?
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