Another 1911 Find

[padredan]

The remington rand in the picture, every part on it except the frame is from my issued pistol, including the mags, so you see why i have such strong feelings about this old slab sides. took me nearly thirty years to find the correct and near matching frame, and it is only two numbers off the original serial number. Of course i never ever stop looking for the remington rand i once carried. But two numbers off is not bad. So how did i get the rest of the parts, easy ,as an armor i just swaped them for another set and turned it in as a rebuild. Put the original parts up for thirty years or so till the right frame came along and thats the results. sounds easy doesn't it/ It wasn't.

[Patronen]

Nice Iron! Thanks for sharing Padre.
Not an expert, but I believe your Norwegian should just have diamonds and not the Colt emblem for grips.


Dave

[padredan]

yes that is correct, thats the only thing not matching, plus the colt grips have shrunk, but sure wasn't a deal killer. The grips will be alot easier to find than the pistol was.

[Patronen]

Originally Posted by padredan

yes that is correct, thats the only thing not matching, plus the colt grips have shrunk, but sure wasn't a deal killer. The grips will be alot easier to find than the pistol was.

They are hard to find. I've Only seen 2 in the flesh and one was a mutilated wreck at that.


Dave

[GySgt1811]

Padre,

BTW, I happened to come across this site offering what they say are original Norwegian magazines for their version of the 1911. Thought you may be interested.

http://northridgeinc.com/alias.cfm/magazines/

Regards,

John

[Douglas Jr.]

Padre,

That's a nice collection of M1911s.
I really love the finish on those battlehorses.
Congratulations and thanks for sharing!
Douglas.

[padredan]

ty, only a small portion of my 1911's luckly i am a place in my life where i can afford to keep buying them before they are all gone.

[padredan]

This is my shooter, a colt SS gold cup national match upper built with wilson combat and ed brown parts, it runs flawless. Kinda fancy for a shooter, but i only had my self to please when building it.

[GySgt1811]

WOOF!!!

(But I repeat myself.)

John

[padredan]

You might think i have a likeing for the 1911 and that would be correct. As a young green amor under the command of a sgt major, who believed that given just a little care, ole slabsides would again and again perform like no other sidearm on the battlefield. I paid attention and i learnd from a master armor, who till this day i can still hear him say " well kid you may just well learn a thing or two from me yet" Ty Sgt major because of you i have built some pretty nice "shooters"

[lugersrkewl]

the rand is my favorite out of all of them the trigger looks like theres no slop. Ive never cared for single stacks but Im glad you posted this. thanks

[padredan]

I am very partial to the remington rand, as it was built from nearly all the parts from my military sidearm of over forty years ago, it is all hand fitted and there is very little play in it.

[padredan]

11911 's do not allways come in single stack. This is a spring field armory hi Capacity .45 15 shot double stack. all the internals have been changed to wilson combat, this is the gun to have in todays real world of crazies, I would stake my life on it, and do.

[padredan]

In this day and time there are plenty of compact ,sub compact or mini's in all calibers, but over thirty five years ago there was the Detonics compact .45, this was my first concealed carry or back up, shoots as well now as it did back then. back in the day it was called my midgit with the attitude,

[padredan]

when compared to even other .45 compacts you see how small the six shot detonics is, and this was designed and built nearly forty years ago. Do you think detonics was ahead of the time ???

[Patronen]

Padre, how's that Safari shoot?

[padredan]

I own six of the safari arms, from when they were the old phenix az company. None of them would work or were constant jammers when i got them, but after some fitting and tuning they all work fine now. The ported comp carry took me the longest, i fitted it to a standard frame. i think one of the reason safari arms went out of bussiness in az is these are semi custom guns and the were never tuned properly and got a really bad reputation, some of it deserved. I will usualy buy any i can find knowing going in i will be rebuilding them, but once you get the bugs worked out they are great guns.

[padredan]

Nice collection you have, thats real world defense. Sadley the price of lugers and original 1911's have gone out of sight the last few years, doubt we will see the prices drop anytime soon.