Noob question: Whats an Idiot mark?

[Hawk]

No single stack 1911 should be without one. The absence of the arched mark reminds me of SAAs with wire ties around the hammer. It may well indicate one more competent than I at reassembly but it's just so fastidious.

I haven't been able to get the mark into a 2011 as there's insufficient area to get a decent gouge going.

 

[Catalina]

It's a term crusty old curmudgeons use to show how crusty, old & curmudgeonly they are.

Never admit it's from deficient design.

Just kidding. I own a few 1911's. The only one w/o the scratch is still in the package.

 

[1KPerDay]

If you look reeeeally close you can see my idiot mark below the slide release.

 

[Mad Magyar]

NEVER by any current owner

"I cross my heart, hope to die, that I .......":

 

[gc70]

It is just a little reminder to pay attention when putting a 1911 back together.

 

[jaydubya]

I got my own version of an idiot mark in 1967 off the coast of South Vietnam. I was standing on the port wing of USS Canberra's bridge, attempting to take a picture with my SLR camera of her eight-inch guns firing maybe ten yards forward of me. That was some shiner!
Cordially, Jack

 

[michiganfan]

its the scratch on my springfield GI thats the mark and I am the idiot

 

[1911 guy]

I did it once.

The first 1911 I owned, back in the eighties, got the mark shortly after I got it. I haven't marked another. Yet.

 

[AndyC]

It's a term crusty old curmudgeons use to show how crusty, old & curmudgeonly they are

I think that's the most accurate description so far

 

[glassman]

I was pre warned about the slidestop mark and almost did it anyway. Even when you're real careful, it just ain't that hard to do.

 

[Rod B]

I prefer the term " a character mark" & yes I am the character who did it.

 

[Seven For Sure]

Go's for the slide stop pin on GLOCKS too. Some people try to hammer them out with God knows what. All you need to do is wiggle the slide stop a bit and use a punch to push it through.

 

[jad0110]

If you want to cover up the fact that you are an idiot , you can always cheat and put electrical tape on the frame just below the slide stop hole in the frame. A little trick I learned here on THR, which I put to good use the first few times I reassembled my 1911 until I got the hang of it.

 

[tinygnat219]

It's the bruise over the right eye of a shooter who just put a new scope on a rifle and didn't put any distance between his face and the scope.