Hoping you guys can tell me what I looked at tonight. All I know about 1911s is that the Kimber I bought used last month is sweet and more tricked out than I realized.
Anyway a coworker told me he was thinking of selling his .45 for $225 and asked if I would be interested. A picture showed it to be an Auto Ordnance 1911. A quick look on here last night told me these were hit and miss mostly miss but since I could shoot it I thought it was worth a look.
The gun turned out to be one of the ones from Thompson it was a Pitbull model (Commander size?) and said ZG-51 on it. What was really confusing to me was that when I locked the slide back the barrel had a huge bell at the end however when the slide was forward into the battery position it definitely fit properly. I locked the slides back on his and mine and put them barrel to barrel and there was a huge difference in OD. I found this really strange and decided I didn't want it because of this.
So my question is what's up with this? Is it just a brand specific barrel? Also any other information about that model would be nice. He didn't really want to sell the gun, and actually only offered it to me and one other coworker. He offered it up because he wants a Glock and his wife told him to sell a gun. He did hint that now that I went over and looked at it he was going to tell her that I was buying it and then go buy his Glock next weekend. He isn't really a handgun guy and was wanting to know more about the gun so I told him I would look into it a bit.
Thanks in advance for any replies.
Anyway a coworker told me he was thinking of selling his .45 for $225 and asked if I would be interested. A picture showed it to be an Auto Ordnance 1911. A quick look on here last night told me these were hit and miss mostly miss but since I could shoot it I thought it was worth a look.
The gun turned out to be one of the ones from Thompson it was a Pitbull model (Commander size?) and said ZG-51 on it. What was really confusing to me was that when I locked the slide back the barrel had a huge bell at the end however when the slide was forward into the battery position it definitely fit properly. I locked the slides back on his and mine and put them barrel to barrel and there was a huge difference in OD. I found this really strange and decided I didn't want it because of this.
So my question is what's up with this? Is it just a brand specific barrel? Also any other information about that model would be nice. He didn't really want to sell the gun, and actually only offered it to me and one other coworker. He offered it up because he wants a Glock and his wife told him to sell a gun. He did hint that now that I went over and looked at it he was going to tell her that I was buying it and then go buy his Glock next weekend. He isn't really a handgun guy and was wanting to know more about the gun so I told him I would look into it a bit.
Thanks in advance for any replies.