My dad's stolen 1911 is home.

[C-grunt]

Back in the mid 2000s my father purchased a Kimber Stainless Gold Match II. He shot it every week. One day it stopped running reliably. He had a well known local 1911 smith fully tune up and rebuild the gun and it ran amazing for many years and over 25k rounds since. We spent many days at the range together and the Kimber was his constant companion. In 2017 my father's house was burglarized and it was the only thing stolen. We believe it was the meth addict schizo neighbor but never had any evidence. A couple years later my father died. The pistol was recently recovered and returned to me yesterday. This was the condition I got it in.

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Yesterday I spent about 30 minutes with CLP and a brush and was able to knock the worst off.

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Today I did a full detail strip and went after the rust spots with oil and some fine steel wool. It definitely doesn't look pristine but It never was a safe queen. I am beyond the moon that I got this 1911 back in my hands. When my father passed away this gun was the only thing he owned that I really wanted. Im taking it to the range this weekend.

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