This is my old parkerized Springfield. I sold it to my brother years ago to finance something else and always regretted it. He hardly ever shot it and I started asking him to sell it back to me about a year ago. He gave it to me for X-Mas this year. I am excited to have it back. We spent many a day together. It was my only .45 for many years and was my range gun, as well as my carry gun. All machined parts. Can't say that today. I looked at a TRP today and at $1400 it still has MIM parts!
I put a flat mainspring housing on it, fluted the ejection port, cut square "checkering" on the front strap, polished the feed ramp and put in an aluminum trigger, ( I put a different one in it today when I broke it down and cleaned it ).
It has never failed to fire, feed or eject. It's not all that tight, but it doesn't rattle. It is not target accurate, but reasonably accurate. Milk jugs at 75 yards were no problem when I could still see. Just a great gun and I love the parkerized look.
I put a flat mainspring housing on it, fluted the ejection port, cut square "checkering" on the front strap, polished the feed ramp and put in an aluminum trigger, ( I put a different one in it today when I broke it down and cleaned it ).
It has never failed to fire, feed or eject. It's not all that tight, but it doesn't rattle. It is not target accurate, but reasonably accurate. Milk jugs at 75 yards were no problem when I could still see. Just a great gun and I love the parkerized look.
nice pistol