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I picked up a custom 10mm that I ordered last January from the pistolsmith last night.
It was meant to be a twin to my forged frame and slide Caspian 10mm carry gun, but I went with RRA on the recommendations of some pistolsmiths when I learned Caspian no longer offers forged frames.
Like the first one the RRA based gun has a Kart barrel, Ed Brown externals and SVI internal parts. The front sight started as a large blank fit to my preferred sight picture then sent to Trijicon for the insert and painted circle.
In a concession to cost the checkering on the front strap of the RRA was machined by them as opposed to the hand checkering on the Caspian (which I've had since 2001). The rear of both slides are hand checkered at 40 lpi.
The RRA slide is round topped while the Caspian is flat. Both have Heinie magwells too.
The RRA has an Aftec extractor. Bill Dale, the guy who built it, does a lot of IPSC Open guns and is a huge Aftec fan in non-.45 ACP 1911's. He runs them in his own 9x23 and 10mm's and pressed me to give it a try. My Caspian has eaten two conventional ones after a gob of rounds so I decided to give it a try. We'll see how that goes.
The slide and grip screws were done in a very high polish blue meant to contrast with the matte frame. I wish I had sprung to have the frame polished too but that will have to wait.
Thanks a lot for looking in. My wife just rolled her eyes, told me they all look alike, and reminded me this is the last one until the kids are out of college!
My macro photography skills are pathetic and don't do the gun justice.
Brent
I picked up a custom 10mm that I ordered last January from the pistolsmith last night.
It was meant to be a twin to my forged frame and slide Caspian 10mm carry gun, but I went with RRA on the recommendations of some pistolsmiths when I learned Caspian no longer offers forged frames.
Like the first one the RRA based gun has a Kart barrel, Ed Brown externals and SVI internal parts. The front sight started as a large blank fit to my preferred sight picture then sent to Trijicon for the insert and painted circle.
In a concession to cost the checkering on the front strap of the RRA was machined by them as opposed to the hand checkering on the Caspian (which I've had since 2001). The rear of both slides are hand checkered at 40 lpi.
The RRA slide is round topped while the Caspian is flat. Both have Heinie magwells too.
The RRA has an Aftec extractor. Bill Dale, the guy who built it, does a lot of IPSC Open guns and is a huge Aftec fan in non-.45 ACP 1911's. He runs them in his own 9x23 and 10mm's and pressed me to give it a try. My Caspian has eaten two conventional ones after a gob of rounds so I decided to give it a try. We'll see how that goes.
The slide and grip screws were done in a very high polish blue meant to contrast with the matte frame. I wish I had sprung to have the frame polished too but that will have to wait.
Thanks a lot for looking in. My wife just rolled her eyes, told me they all look alike, and reminded me this is the last one until the kids are out of college!
My macro photography skills are pathetic and don't do the gun justice.
Brent
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