I beg a hundred pardons but I modified a 101 year old colt

[Wombat of Doom]

For a civilian model... meh!
Although I really think you should reblue that slide if you're going to put a new barrel in it. Show it some love!
Good on ya for keeping the original grips tho.

Leaving the slide original.

 

[Wombat of Doom]

Is nobody else going to ask? Where in the world did you get a threaded barrel for a Colt 1903?

In lead we trust. Probably getting a threaded barrel for the 1908 too.

 

[Wombat of Doom]

Took it out with the omega 9k. Cycled well. Sounded like a slightly deeper timbred .22 subsonic. Color me impressed

 

[ARFrog]

Not a modification....reversible field testing.

Whew, you dodged a "bullit" there OP

 

[Bon Sauvage]

Wombat, at first I thought that you were doomed for the 3rd circle of Hell but now I tend to agree with ARFrog.

 

[Wombat of Doom]

I don't make mods to old guns that are irreversible without reason. For example, I can see rechambering an old gun in an obsolete rimfire to a known safe centerfire. I can see doing a lot of work restoring what would otherwise be trash. But stuff like this I can be okay with. Heck I am okay with bubba'd SKS's that had no permanent mods. But if you can't restore it to original easily, I would think long and hard about that. I would need a compelling reason. Next paycheck, the 1908 gets it.

This is more, advanced accessorizing. Modern stuff... that gets a little more molded. 10/22 and the like get strange mods.

 

[ilikegunspdx]

But don't worry too much. I kept the original barrel unmolested. But I really wanted to suppress the 1903 colt. Per some serial checking this is a 1919 manufacture date. Bought a threaded barrel. Put the original aside.

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Awesome that's the way to do it! Preserve the originality but have fun with it too. Thank you for not butchering it irreversibly. Cheers!

 

[Wombat of Doom]

And I did it again. This time with a hundred and ten year old colt .25acp

 

[ARFrog]

From henceforth they should be referred to as "geldings" due to the modifications and the fact that they are a little old to be called "colts"