Have to? No.
Want to? Yes.
Jason, the guys at Caspian who provided the frame & slide, and the guys at Wilson who provided most of the internals all seem pretty confident that 50k will be a walk in the park. I want to prove them right. Because bro love.
Sadly not mine.
Hoag/Auto Shop longslide. A friend let me borrow it for a couple weeks, which... I'm not gonna lie, it's a rare gun that I'll just sit there and contemplate for the better part of an hour, but this thing was beautifully done.
That's on my lotto list.
3/15/2016
Lots of nice pics on here as of late. JAD and the MARS, Janitor and his collection, and Tam's longslide pic is a beauty.
I haven't purchased a 1911 in a long while but recently I found a 70 Series Colt at a pawn shop. Since it had been messed with a little bit, the price was very fair.
As purchased:
I took off the silly trigger guard attachment and replaced the extended slide stop, then blinged it up with some grips that a friend gave me. Eventually I would like to find some wood grips with the Colt medallion. It had a shok buff kit in it but that was removed even though it shot fine with 3 mags of ball ammo.
I am probably going to put a 10-8 or similar National Match rear sight on it next then go shoot it.
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Very nice Todd! Are those Magpul grips which have been "VCD'ed" ?Originally Posted by ToddG
A recent and amazing gift fromSLG & JulieGtwo wonderful friends: a Jason Burton Heirloom Precision 9mm Commander.
I was originally going to name it 9X19-Caliber but now that I've taken a hundred unusable photos I've decided to call it Dustmagnet.
Custom SME holster by John Ralston of 5 Shot Leather.
Custom grips by David Barnes of VCD Grips.
I haven't the foggiest idea. He sent them, I put them on, they're awesome, end of story.
Todd, can you give us a detail gun-nerd breakdown about the gun? Maybe in its own thread or something?
SLG and JulieG are a class act. My friends give me stuff sometimes...mostly bruises and adult situations that make my wife angry.
MD7305: I will. It's a little complicated because I was the guy who originally spec'd the gun but SLG ran point actually getting it made. And since I'm not really a 1911 nerd (merely an aspiring 1911 nerd) there are probably cool touches & features that go right over my head. I've actually been looking through threads on 1911forum to figure out what people like pictures of.
Well, rock on. I share their confidence -- nothing about the Combat Commander configuration takes away from the durability of a steel 1911 that I know of. Take pictures and stuff.
Well, I would be supremely confident that Jason has expertly tuned the flange gap...MD7305: I will. It's a little complicated because I was the guy who originally spec'd the gun but SLG ran point actually getting it made. And since I'm not really a 1911 nerd (merely an aspiring 1911 nerd) there are probably cool touches & features that go right over my head. I've actually been looking through threads on 1911forum to figure out what people like pictures of.
We like photos of timed grip screws.
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