Sounds like an XS Government Model. These were made only in '99, and were designed to go head-to-head with Kimber and Springfield in the "features" arena. It took the GM the rest of the way from "enhanced" to a gun with real semi-custom features. It should have a beavertail grip safety with a dorsal speed-bump, and an extended, ambi thumb safety? Wedge-shaped rear sight? Among Colt fans, the XS has already gained near-legendary status, as they are said to be some of the best pistols Colt has ever made. If you have an XS, and you paid only $550 for it, you have both a great gun and a great deal. I see used ones going for $700-$800.
government model 01070eu?
i have a colt government model 01070eu i bought about 2 years ago for 549.99 n.i.b. interesting variant. it looks like a colt defender configuration on a standard full size stainless government model. never saw this verson in colt's catalog or web sight. there were two left when i bought this one. one with hogue finger groove grips and the one i bought with rosewood(?) diamond grips.
does anyone else here have this variant? and does anyone know anything about this pistol? is it just a run done for some distributer or some "special of the week" gunmaker's sometimes throw together? the pistols quality is petty good in some areas and not so good in others. never jammed in the 400 rounds of 200 grain swc's reloads i've put through it. thanks!
does anyone else here have this variant? and does anyone know anything about this pistol? is it just a run done for some distributer or some "special of the week" gunmaker's sometimes throw together? the pistols quality is petty good in some areas and not so good in others. never jammed in the 400 rounds of 200 grain swc's reloads i've put through it. thanks!
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thanks for the reply RickB! i bought the pistol from bauchman pawn, a wholesaler that advertises in shotgun news at a gun show in tyler tx. the pistol has an extended safety but it is not ambi. and its does have the beavertail grip safety with the funny looking raised speed bump and countersunk slot for the hammer. the trigger is long and is made of plastic. the trigger feels good in its lenght and shape but looks cheesy and cheep though. there are no front serations on the slide like the xse? i see at the guns shows now and the slide markings are normal looking series 80 colt goverment. the barrel is fitted very tightly in the rear and there is no vertical play on the barrel at the ejection port when the pistol is locked up. the side play between the slide and frame is fairly tight especialy for a stainless pistol. the sights are sort of a novak clone wedge rear with a dovetail front sight. arched plastic rear mainspring. the only two things wrong with the pistol was that the breech face had a raised area on the left side opposet the extractor. i didn't notice it for awhile until i was reloading some brass i fired in it the had a depression formed on one side of the brass. a fairly major flaw in the pistol. i probably should have sent it back to colt but i was afraid they would mess up my tight fitting pistol by replacing the slide. so i removed the raised area on the breech face myself. (hope the headspace is still good! but i've fired some since and haven't blown myself up yet!)now the ejactor is comeing loose so i need to replace that.this is the fifth 1911 i've had and i like it very well despite the probs. the only other 1911 i've kept is a 1942 us property marked pistol that appears to be all matching. i like it very much, the others i've owned are a springfield, a 1991a1 and a beautiful series '70 that ended up being a unreliable heartbreaker. ive been keeping an eye on colt products for awhile now. my brother also bought two 38 supers this last year. and i've noticed that the fitting is much tighter on recent produced colts tha older models. i guess kimber is to be thanked for that!
Sounds like an XSE... not as nice as the XS (those had Videcki triggers & no plastic stuff) but fundamentally OK guns from what I've heard.
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CastleBravo, thanks for the response i thought the xse varients i,ve seen for sale on gunsamerica.com,etc. had front slide serrations and regular series 80 fixed sights with the front sight being staked and the beavertail was of the type used on the enhanced models? the pistol i have has the features detailed above that are different from the xse models i've seen for sale.
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I have a Colt XS Combat Commander and it is a great gun I will never get rid of this one. Love it if yours is the XS goverment which it sounds like its a Keeper and a good price you paid. Here is mine
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The thing that mainly made me think it's an XSE is the plastic trigger, as you can see from the picture the gen-u-wine XS has a Videcki trigger. I'm not so sure now, though, since you do seem to have alot of other features like Novak-type sights, beavertail and so on. Hmmmm. Fortunately, a good trigger is pretty inexpensive anyway.
Shooter45: that is one sweeeeet looking pistol. Good quality photo, too. I'm pretty much getting my Delta Elite turned into an "XS Delta Elite" (extended thumb safety, Novak sights, match trigger, nice wood grips... you get the idea
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Shooter45: that is one sweeeeet looking pistol. Good quality photo, too. I'm pretty much getting my Delta Elite turned into an "XS Delta Elite" (extended thumb safety, Novak sights, match trigger, nice wood grips... you get the idea
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XS and XSE guns have 2 slots in the trigger as opposed to the now popular three hole variety. They both come from the factory with the flat gray plastic mainspring housing. Picture above is a correct set up for the XS model, including the blue smaller hex head grip screws. XSE version differs in sights, grip safety, thumb safety. Original XS model came with ambi safeties.
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Hello forum:
I'm new to this group so I will set back and listen most of the time. But I did want to make a comment based on my limited 1911 experience. I own a full size XSE and outside of the sights, I see very little difference between it and the beautiful little XS pictured above. Note the XSE does not have a plastic trigger as someone said prior.
[img}http://www.nssolutions.com/images/1911-XSE.jpg[/img]
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That's my girl, my whole world, but that ain't my truck.
I'm new to this group so I will set back and listen most of the time. But I did want to make a comment based on my limited 1911 experience. I own a full size XSE and outside of the sights, I see very little difference between it and the beautiful little XS pictured above. Note the XSE does not have a plastic trigger as someone said prior.
[img}http://www.nssolutions.com/images/1911-XSE.jpg[/img]
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That's my girl, my whole world, but that ain't my truck.
Will you guys quit posting those XS and XSE pictures; I hardly need the temptation.
The thumb saftey looks a little smaller on the Goverment model.
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wow amigo's, i'm really confused now! the pistol i have is not exactly like the xs model but it is not a xse model either, nor is it a regular enhanced gm. my cousin has a digital camera i'll try to post some pic's. it's very close to a xs in configuration except the extended safety is not ambi and there are no front slide serrations and my slide markings are the same as a series 80 gm. also the trigger is a long type with with 3 holes thats plastic instead of the good looking aluminum in the above photo(i think some of the cco models had those). yet my sights and grip safety are the same as shown on the above xs model the safety even looks the same except its not ambi. the grips look the same except mine has regular screws instead of hex head. thanks for the input fella's and the nice pic.'s but like i said now i'm really confused! it must be a model colt cobbled together for a distributer or a "pre xs"
Now I'm thinking your gun is some kind of CCO-style Government Model, rather than XS GM. The early CCO's, the ones with the black frames, had three-hole plastic triggers, Hogue grips, and I believe extended, but not ambi, thumb safeties. Your gun is more XS than XSE, but it seems like a proto-XS, with some of the enhancements (I'm reluctant to use that word, when the "enhanced" Colts are not as nice as either the XS or XSE) of the XS series, but in not-quite finalized form. Please post the pic, if you can.
Well, My XS came with flat head blue grip screws, and as I said before the MSH does not look plastic and has vertical grooves in it for grip.
I can't wait to go to the range again next week, just got my new Wilson magazines, and my holster should be in soon also.
I will try to post a pic of the MSH next week as well.
I can't wait to go to the range again next week, just got my new Wilson magazines, and my holster should be in soon also.
I will try to post a pic of the MSH next week as well.
here are the pic's if i can get this link to work
http://albums.photopoint.com/j/View?u=1672985&a=12829301&p=47936961
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http://albums.photopoint.com/j/View?u=1672985&a=12829301&p=47936961
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and one more. has anyone seen this version before? http://albums.photopoint.com/j/View?u=1672985&a=12829301&p=47936954
hbar....
Nice looking Colt. I've never seen this one before. My guess is a distributor make up, or one of those Colts that sometimes come out of the barn with unique parts. I've seen one factory XS Defender that was supposed to have hogue grips. The one that I saw NIB had DD rosewood grips. On the XS guns, sometimes you will get hex head grip screws, other times you will see factory new XS guns with regular screws. You have what appears to be a unique configuration.
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Nice looking Colt. I've never seen this one before. My guess is a distributor make up, or one of those Colts that sometimes come out of the barn with unique parts. I've seen one factory XS Defender that was supposed to have hogue grips. The one that I saw NIB had DD rosewood grips. On the XS guns, sometimes you will get hex head grip screws, other times you will see factory new XS guns with regular screws. You have what appears to be a unique configuration.
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"An ultimate goal of the United States is a world which is free from the ... dangers and burdens of armaments;" 22 USCS SEC. 2551
Greetings, I'm new to the forum and know these threads are old but I have one of these pistols. I just recently decided to search the web to see if I could find anything about the my Colt and this was the only place that had any info on it. If you still have it and would like to compare things, let me know as I think we may have the only two like pistols from colt. PS, Thanks for posting, I thought I was going crazy, my friends thought I had purchased a gun that someone had customized. Don't know about you, but I think I'll keep mine!
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