Sistema Colt (Argentine) hammer/grip safety replacement

[Elkins45]

I have an Argentine 1927 Sistema Colt that has a trigger pull somewhere around 18 pounds with the original parts. I bought replacements for all the internal parts and the hammer I bought looks like this:

The replacement parts gave me a vastly improved trigger with just the tiniest bit of fitting. The problem, which I could have predicted if I had given it much thought, is that this style hammer butts up against the grip safety so that the slide can't fully retract. I don't want to alter the original grip safety but I also certainly don't want to radius the frame to install one of the common aftermarket beavertail safeties that require frame alteration.

Here's my question: does someone make an aftermarket grip safety with clearance for rowel-type hammers that doesn't require altering the frame? My default solution is to buy a replacement GI-style safety and grind a notch, but I would be willing to spend a little more on a more elegant replacement part if I could install it without grinding on the frame.

TIA for any advice.

 

[rcmodel]

Wilson combat drop-in grip safety should work.
It will require fitting to the trigger bow.
But no frame mod is needed.

http://www.brownells.com/handgun-pa...drop-in-beavertail-grip-safety-prod16464.aspx

This is one on a Colt


rc

 

[WVsig]

There are an endless number of parts which will work. C&S, Wilson etc.....

http://www.cylinder-slide.com/index.php?app=ccp0&ns=prodshow&ref=CS0022B

or http://www.cylinder-slide.com/index.php?app=ccp0&ns=prodshow&ref=CS2315B

 

[Elkins45]

There are an endless number of parts which will work. C&S, Wilson etc.....

http://www.cylinder-slide.com/index.php?app=ccp0&ns=prodshow&ref=CS0022B

or http://www.cylinder-slide.com/index.php?app=ccp0&ns=prodshow&ref=CS2315B

You misunderstood. I want to replace the grip safety, not the hammer.

 

[WVsig]

Sorry but really the same difference. Tons of companies offer semi-drop in parts.... The Wilson mentioned above works well.


Personally I would have stuck with a traditional hammer on the Sistema but that is just me.

 

[Elkins45]

Sorry but really the same difference. Tons of companies offer semi-drop in parts.... The Wilson mentioned above works well.

I think rcmodel's suggestion of the Wilson part is what I need, especially since the hammer in his picture looks just like mine.

I already bought a new hammer (hence the problem) and I would like to keep it in place. When I replaced the hammer, sear and disconnector it really made a huge positive difference in the trigger.

 

[Onmilo]

I have used Wilson Drop in beavertail grip safety. they are excellent but if you don't want "All That" on your pistol, you could buy a replacement standard grip safety and alter it to work with your replacement hammer, keep your original part all original. HTH

 

[rcmodel]

IMO: Keeping original parts when replacing them with something else is a exercise in futility.

Everyone, myself included, has the best of intentions when they replace factory grips or working parts on an old gun, and squirrel them away for later replacement to maintain the collector value.

Unfortunately, that almost never happens.

We all grow old, we all get forgetful, we all get sick, and we all die.

And somebody at the estate sale buys a box of non-descript gun parts for a dollar two ninety eight, and somebody else buys the gun they go with.

And never the twain shall meet again!

I've seen it too many times to count over the years!

And I've got the boxes of gun parts, and the guns they don't go with I have bought at estate auctions over the years to prove it.

I went to an estate sale a couple years ago and bought a WWII Colt Commando.
The U.S. GI holster for it was thrown in a box of junk tools by the auction house monkeys and sold separately.

I begged & pleaded for them to put the holster back with the gun it went with because I was going to buy it.
But it fell on deaf ears.

That box brought way more then the holster was worth because some fool wanted the 6 Snap-On sockets in the bottom of the box!

rc

 

[saltydog452]

Or, you can just file down the top of grip sfety where the rounded portion of the new hammer would come in contact.

That'll save you about 40.00 and you get to vaccum up the metal bits that fell into your wife's carpet.

salty