Ya see the new Colt 1911A1?

I've decided against buying one also. For $1,000 you can almost buy the real thing. Why pay that much for a repro that likely won't increase in value? In the 70's Mauser brought back the Luger for a short while. Today those guns are still worth less than an old beat-up original!

As long as a pre-Series 80 is using an extra-power firing pin spring the chances of having an AD are very remote. Most cases of AD's have involved pistols with fatigued standard power springs.

Mainspring housings with a lanyard loop aren't too hard to come by. Gun Parts Corp. usually has them, since they are affiliated with Auto-Ordinance which makes a WW2 pistol replica using a MSH w/loop. I bought one and stuck it on a Colt of mine. Aside from that, used parts vendors at gun shows have them with regularity.

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D. Kamm
USGI 1911 pistols website
http://www.geocities.com/M1911_M1911A1

What is really starting to annoy me is all these repro M1911A1s floating around out there, yet still nobody has taken a decent P-I-C-T-U-R-E of one yet!

From what I have heard, it looks nice but certainly won't fool anybody who has a REAL '43 Colt.

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D. Kamm
USGI 1911 pistols website
http://www.geocities.com/M1911_M1911A1

Originally posted by Col. Colt:
The A1 sights were indeed still relatively small, but they were a Partridge squared cut rather than the rather thin "U" shape of the original 1911. Our guns accurately reflect this.

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Sights on the WW1 1911 were U notch with a half-moon tapered front. In 1924 it was changed to a parallel-sided front. In 1943 it was further changed to a 1/10" square nothc rear and 1/10" serrated ramp front. You can see examples at http://www.geocities.com/M1911_M1911A1/sights.html


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D. Kamm
USGI M1911/M1911A1 Pistols Website
http://www.geocities.com/M1911_M1911A1

[This message has been edited by dsk (edited 07-19-2001).]

Originally posted by FirearmsPlus.FL:
We've not lost anything through fed-ex or USPS yet since we switched from UPS. UPS lost countless stuff, including one box of guns that ended up on some guys lawn.
They all suck, you're better off driving cross-country and picking the stuff up yourself

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The Ithaca isn't officially "lost" yet, but according to the tracking number it's been taking a tour of the country for the past week (it was sent Priority) which tells me they don't know where to send it. The sickening thing is I can't even get ahold of a live human outside my own post office to go tell them to find it and send it in the right direction. At least UPS and Fed Ex can better track their packages.

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D. Kamm
USGI M1911/M1911A1 Pistols Website
http://www.geocities.com/M1911_M1911A1.

[This message has been edited by dsk (edited 07-22-2001).]