Madcap_Magician
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Got my call last Wednesday, RGN 33790, arrived Friday at my local gun shop.
At first I was disappointed because the gun shop called and said "Your Remington-Rand is here." I already have a Remington-Rand in what appears to be mostly correct configuration (1945 Remington-Rand frame and Type 3 Remington-Rand slide), and I was hoping for something else.
But when I got there, what I found was actually a 1943 Colt frame with a Type 3 Remington-Rand slide on it in excellent condition. It's been re-arsenaled, obviously, from the parkerizing condition and the arsenal stamp "A9 84," which I am a little confused about because I thought all the arsenal stamps were either two- or three-letter abbreviations plus a date code.
It looks like it was refinished and then bummed around some armories for a while, accumulating minimal use and the minor bumps and dings associated with being a rack gun among many other rack guns.
I would have very much liked a Colt slide as well, even if it were not matching, but overall I'm pleased with a beautiful old gun with wartime production frame and slide (my worst fear was getting a Remington-Rand frame with one of the contract replacement slides from no-name vendors in the 70s-90s).
My 1945 Remington-Rand is the lighter gun, and my Colt-RR CMP mixmaster is the darker one on top.
Detailed pictures are of the CMP gun.
If anyone happens to have the serialized matching slide for Colt No902227, I'd very much be interested.
At first I was disappointed because the gun shop called and said "Your Remington-Rand is here." I already have a Remington-Rand in what appears to be mostly correct configuration (1945 Remington-Rand frame and Type 3 Remington-Rand slide), and I was hoping for something else.
But when I got there, what I found was actually a 1943 Colt frame with a Type 3 Remington-Rand slide on it in excellent condition. It's been re-arsenaled, obviously, from the parkerizing condition and the arsenal stamp "A9 84," which I am a little confused about because I thought all the arsenal stamps were either two- or three-letter abbreviations plus a date code.
It looks like it was refinished and then bummed around some armories for a while, accumulating minimal use and the minor bumps and dings associated with being a rack gun among many other rack guns.
I would have very much liked a Colt slide as well, even if it were not matching, but overall I'm pleased with a beautiful old gun with wartime production frame and slide (my worst fear was getting a Remington-Rand frame with one of the contract replacement slides from no-name vendors in the 70s-90s).
My 1945 Remington-Rand is the lighter gun, and my Colt-RR CMP mixmaster is the darker one on top.
Detailed pictures are of the CMP gun.
If anyone happens to have the serialized matching slide for Colt No902227, I'd very much be interested.
