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Don't hold down the slide release while shooting it, or else the slide will not lock back on the empty magazine.
 
The old ones have small sights and if you press the button on the side the bullet holder thing may hit your foot so wear shoes.
 
Do not, under any circumstances, cause or allow to be caused, an "Idiot Scratch".

The gun will continue to function as before, but everyone will laugh at you, children will make unkind remarks, and your dog will run away.

Sorry, man. I don't make the rules.

Sounds snarky, l know... but it lS true.
 
I sent a PM to medic...with a couple questions. But looking for someone who can look at a 1911 and know what original parts have replaced by us amorous.
Thanks again.
Craig
 
Thats pretty funny!
I would not set foot in there again even
If they gave away free guns and ammo.
I really intended to find a real 1911 expert here and have a private serious conversation.
 
Concerning "GI" .45s of WWII manufacture; After the war virtually all of them went thru arsenal rebuilds.
They were taken apart and all parts inspected, then re-assembled without regard to matching parts.
So, a gun might well have a frame/slide/barrel, from 3 different companies.
The small parts were made by many different companies, and were not marked, and some of the major contractors furnished parts to other major contractors.
Pretty much the only guns that escaped this arsenal work were the ones that returning soldiers did not turn-in.
At that time officers were allowed to purchase their handguns upon leaving service,, those who didn't turn one in were charged for them.
The best ones that retained all their original matching parts were usually the ones that had been issued to pilots,, carried a lot, seldom shot.
Those arsenal rebuilds were re-issued for the Korean War, then rebuilt again for issue in Vietnam.
After 2>3 rebuilds with mixed-up parts, it's no wonder that many soldiers in Vietnam complained that you couldn't hit anything with them.
Oh,, the guns built between ~1943 to ~1945, due to demand of production, were not heat-treated as well as the pre war, and early war production,, they are pretty soft steel, and usually don't have as good a finish on them.
 
Concerning "GI" .45s of WWII manufacture; After the war virtually all of them went thru arsenal rebuilds.
They were taken apart and all parts inspected, then re-assembled without regard to matching parts.
So, a gun might well have a frame/slide/barrel, from 3 different companies.
The small parts were made by many different companies, and were not marked, and some of the major contractors furnished parts to other major contractors.
Pretty much the only guns that escaped this arsenal work were the ones that returning soldiers did not turn-in.
At that time officers were allowed to purchase their handguns upon leaving service,, those who didn't turn one in were charged for them.
The best ones that retained all their original matching parts were usually the ones that had been issued to pilots,, carried a lot, seldom shot.
Those arsenal rebuilds were re-issued for the Korean War, then rebuilt again for issue in Vietnam.
After 2>3 rebuilds with mixed-up parts, it's no wonder that many soldiers in Vietnam complained that you couldn't hit anything with them.
Oh,, the guns built between ~1943 to ~1945, due to demand of production, were not heat-treated as well as the pre war, and early war production,, they are pretty soft steel, and usually don't have as good a finish on them.
It's amazing to realize how many were actually thrown overboard by the case on orders from "on high." Bob Harris was tasked with doing that very thing at war's end. He told me that in was done in Manila Bay. Others spoke of aircraft that were burned, etc.
 
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