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I've got a Detonics Combat Master .45 that I inherited from my Dad when he passed away early this year. I haven't found any paperwork he may have had for it, but I do know that he had some kind of relationship with Richard Niemer - probably just as a customer. For many years he shot competitively with a .38 super which I think started as a Colt .45 which Mr. Niemer did a lot of work on for him. The slide has is engraved with my Dad's name on one side and Mr. Niemer's on the other side. I don't have pics from both sides but this is the gun:
Back to the Detonics - I don't know if he got this before the custom work he had done by Mr. Niemer - or after. In fact, though we've been in the Seattle area since he transferred here in 1979 (law enforcement), I'm inclined to believe he got this pistol before that, when he was working in Chicago. This is about as much background as I have - except one other thing: I noticed that he has more than one black padded plush-lined Detonics zippered case. In fact I think I found 3 when I went through his stuff. So it is possible this is not the only Detonics pistol he ever owned.
My question for the community is about the serial number. Everything I can find says that the earliest Detonics production serial numbers start at 2000. But the only markings on my Dad's pistol are "DETONICS .45", "PAT. PENDING", and then on the other side of the slide "CR11088". Is that last number the serial number? And if so, does that make it the 9,088th unit, or is there another way to read that?
Thanks for any help.
Back to the Detonics - I don't know if he got this before the custom work he had done by Mr. Niemer - or after. In fact, though we've been in the Seattle area since he transferred here in 1979 (law enforcement), I'm inclined to believe he got this pistol before that, when he was working in Chicago. This is about as much background as I have - except one other thing: I noticed that he has more than one black padded plush-lined Detonics zippered case. In fact I think I found 3 when I went through his stuff. So it is possible this is not the only Detonics pistol he ever owned.
My question for the community is about the serial number. Everything I can find says that the earliest Detonics production serial numbers start at 2000. But the only markings on my Dad's pistol are "DETONICS .45", "PAT. PENDING", and then on the other side of the slide "CR11088". Is that last number the serial number? And if so, does that make it the 9,088th unit, or is there another way to read that?
Thanks for any help.