@Fordtough25, can you take a picture of the sticker on the Colt case? You can cover the serial number.
And I can’t recall the last time Colt installed a drop-in beavertail.
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Box stickers, thanks
The box sticker leads me to believe that the upgrades are exemplary of fortitious parts bin engineering, as opposed to a special order SKU. Best, Jon
Generic box also. They slipped a speckled puppy into that box. No worries, nice pistol.
I have several 01991's. Sometimes you can luck out and get one that shoots like it has been fitted by a competent smith. I have one of those from around 2005 or so. Bushing is tight as a tick and frame to slide fit is about what you would find on a Baer. I bought it new so that was a shocker too.
In the P-F basket of deplorables.
Generic box also. They slipped a speckled puppy into that box. No worries, nice pistol with upgrades. Nobody is going to complain about that.
I have several 01991's. Sometimes you can luck out and get one that shoots like it has been fitted by a competent smith. I have one of those from around 2005 or so. Bushing is tight as a tick and frame to slide fit is about what you would find on a Baer. I bought it new so that was a shocker too.
In the P-F basket of deplorables.
Yup. It feels like they really wanted to use that hammer, then realized that they needed to radius the frame for a beavertail that would fit, or use a drop in. The shape looks wilson-ish.
A smith that used to work for a OEM parts supplier told me once, that he believed the N.M. barrels to just be the first barrels cut with new tooling. Every time colt changed the cutters for the rifling and chambers, the first batch were designated for the National Match designation. Made sense to me at the time. Maybe the PF'ers that have a relationship with Evolution Armory can ask Dave to confirm/deny...