DHart
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Among my 1911's I happen to have quite a number of Colts, all fairly recent production. I'm really thrilled with the guns Colt is making these days. In fact they are my favorite 1911 brand bar none (and I do own a very nice Ed Brown as well.)
Anyway... after a time, one decides to take a production 1911 and explore what can be done to make it into a really fine Custom 1911. I had this new 1991A1 which was a superb gun from the moment I took it out of the box. Didn't need a thing to be stone-cold reliable and wonderfully accurate. Had a great trigger on it too. But I just couldn't leave well enough alone. As much as I loved this gun when it was box-stock, it has become a really special gun with the help of John Harrison of http://www.precision-gunworks.com.
Here are the before and after pics:
The list of modifications includes:
• Slide top flattened and serrated with a wide ridge on each outer edge of the serrations
• Staggered serrations on front strap
• Hi-cut front strap
• Dehorned edges all around
• Lowered & flared ejector port
• Novak bar rear night sight and dovetailed front night sight
• Ed Brown grip safety
• Ed Brown arched, serrated MSH
• Nowlin Pro premium grade hammer & sear set
• Grieder short solid aluminum trigger
• Brownell's premium grade stainless steel extractor
• EGW Angled-bore barrel bushing
• EGW oversized firing pin stop
• Ed Brown magazine catch & plunger tube
• Premium grade slide stop (Ed Brown, I believe)
• Wilson premium grade thumb safety, trimmed down to near GI-size, but with a slightly wider thumb shelf
• Carry trigger at 4#
• Beveled magwell
• Re-crown Colt barrel for beveled flush fit with EGW barrel bushing
• Reliability package (done to ensure that all the new parts work flawlessly - sort of an insurance policy on the work done, as I see it - not because the gun needed any reliability work to begin with.)
• Bead blast frame and slide, then brush polish slide flats
• VZ Black Paper Gator Back grips
The gun is solid as a rock, in fact it's pretty stiff when first racking the slide, but it's a tack driver and so far stone-reliable with JHP defense loads.
Anyway... after a time, one decides to take a production 1911 and explore what can be done to make it into a really fine Custom 1911. I had this new 1991A1 which was a superb gun from the moment I took it out of the box. Didn't need a thing to be stone-cold reliable and wonderfully accurate. Had a great trigger on it too. But I just couldn't leave well enough alone. As much as I loved this gun when it was box-stock, it has become a really special gun with the help of John Harrison of http://www.precision-gunworks.com.
Here are the before and after pics:
The list of modifications includes:
• Slide top flattened and serrated with a wide ridge on each outer edge of the serrations
• Staggered serrations on front strap
• Hi-cut front strap
• Dehorned edges all around
• Lowered & flared ejector port
• Novak bar rear night sight and dovetailed front night sight
• Ed Brown grip safety
• Ed Brown arched, serrated MSH
• Nowlin Pro premium grade hammer & sear set
• Grieder short solid aluminum trigger
• Brownell's premium grade stainless steel extractor
• EGW Angled-bore barrel bushing
• EGW oversized firing pin stop
• Ed Brown magazine catch & plunger tube
• Premium grade slide stop (Ed Brown, I believe)
• Wilson premium grade thumb safety, trimmed down to near GI-size, but with a slightly wider thumb shelf
• Carry trigger at 4#
• Beveled magwell
• Re-crown Colt barrel for beveled flush fit with EGW barrel bushing
• Reliability package (done to ensure that all the new parts work flawlessly - sort of an insurance policy on the work done, as I see it - not because the gun needed any reliability work to begin with.)
• Bead blast frame and slide, then brush polish slide flats
• VZ Black Paper Gator Back grips
The gun is solid as a rock, in fact it's pretty stiff when first racking the slide, but it's a tack driver and so far stone-reliable with JHP defense loads.