Unfortunetly not mine, but Reader Blackhawk101’s
Because of your damn 1911 fetish that got me thinking that I have never had or owned a Colt 1911 model model of any kind.
Was in the local fun shop and there it was staring at me with its bright blue finish, little tongue hanging out and whimpering for a good home:
Have a look
Wow! According to his research this guy rolled off the assembly line in 1912. It’s been reblued and has had a competent trigger job done. But otherwise that’s a more-or-less stock M1911 (no A1 there).
When it comes to carry and shooting I generally prefer the more modern features of 1911s, lightweight triggers, big beaver tails with speed bumps, under-cut triggers, and big fat combat sights. But man this is a vintage beauty! Also sounds like he got a really good deal on such a specimen.
The grips also look correct for this pattern gun (and frankly the double-diamond grips are the one-true grips for 1911s IMHO 🙂 ) but they sure don’t look nearly 100 years old.
The grips are correct for the time period- 13 diamonds between the two larger diamonds- I am unfamiliar in telling if they are period grips but both grips have an ink stamped rampant Colt on the back.
Anybody know if they’re original?
The super-duper stubby beavertail does give him some hammer-bite, but he told me it was nothing a good pair of shooting gloves didn’t fix.
Wow, awesome gun, and really awesome for a fist 1911. Heh, your first 1911 is one of THE first 1911s!
Super cool!
Oh BTW Jay Also Got a new 1911. He bought it from a mutual friend of ours who’s unfortunately fallen on hard times. I have personally shot this gun when it was more-or-less brand new, and will attest that Jay got himself a PEACH!
Speaking from experience, not authority.
Mrs. DT, acquired one like that a few years ago for a Christmas present for me (she does know how to gift)! Mine’s of 1916 vintage, & also re-blued, factory, if my local smiths know their stuff.
It came with the original grips, & they were some beat, as might be expected of a gun of that vintage.
I replaced them with new “original” grips, so the thing looks like the day it left the factory.
So my vote is no, not original grips (why would the gun need refinishing if the original grips were in that good a shape)?
$.02
Yeah that was my thoughts. My guess are Colt Factory M1911 Grips, but not original to the gun.
So essentially its a restoration gun, much like the Shiny 70s GTOs I see rolling around are.
Mah goodness, I think I’m in love.
I know! He emailed me the picture, and my first thought is “I need to blog this!”
That is a beautifully sweet gun. 98 years old and no idiot scratch yet 🙂
My Stainless 1911 has an Idiot scratch, and I’m the idiot who did it! By the time I bought my S&W1911Sc I had learned how to properly re-assemble a 1911 😉
*Drools* That is a beautiful, beautiful piece of equipment. Put it in the hands of a beautiful woman, and you’d have a picture of All That Is Good In The World.