I'm a 1911 owner again!

**M4arc** · #1 05-08-10, 16:36

I'm back in the 1911 (the world's finest close-quarters combat weapon - Ken Hackathorn) fold again!

This little beauty arrived today courtesy of my mother-in-law. It's probably been sitting for 10 years and was all gummed up and filthy. I stripped it down and cleaned the piss out of it with Ballistol and lubed it up with CLP. Now she's pretty smooth.

I'm not sure what my plans are for this yet. I might just keep it as is or I might send it off for some refinements. Eventually I'll give it to my son (because every American male should own a 1911 - Ken Hackathorn) as soon as he's old enough.

lethal dose · #2 05-08-10, 16:48

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I'm not sure what my plans are for this yet...

... GIVE IT TO ME!

lindertw · #3 05-08-10, 16:54

coolest M-I-L ever

SeaSoldier · #4 05-08-10, 17:04

King of the feed way stoppage. Gotta luv em.

kal · #5 05-08-10, 17:20

I don't know much about 1911's, but is that beaver tail looking piece at the back of the pistol some sort of grip safety mechanism?

Lincoln7 · #6 05-08-10, 17:23

Yep, that's the grip safety. The beavertail versions are a bit longer and help protect from hammer bite.

M4arc, is that a series 70 or 80? It's quite beautiful.

Ruff Shod · #7 05-08-10, 17:41

70 Series and Pachmayr go together like pork rines and cold beer!

Nice and nostalgic! I wouldnt change anything.

C45P312 · #8 05-08-10, 17:43

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Originally Posted by M4arc

(the world's finest close-quarters combat weapon - Ken Hackathorn)

Would this be the same 1911 that is the king of feedway stoppages?

Robb Jensen · #9 05-08-10, 17:46

You should make a MEUSOC clone out of it.

Beat Trash · #10 05-08-10, 17:54

You should first go shoot the piss out of it.

rljatl · #11 05-08-10, 17:59

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Originally Posted by C45P312

Would this be the same 1911 that is the king of feedway stoppages?

Mine has never had a "feedway" stoppage since I first bought it in 1978. That includes H&G 200 gr. semi-wadcutters.

SpookyPistolero · #12 05-08-10, 18:05

Now there's a handsome devil! Nice score. I'll trade you MIL's any day of the week..

rubberneck · #13 05-08-10, 18:27

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Originally Posted by gotm4

You should make a MEUSOC clone out of it.

Just what I was thinking. Get your name on Dave Berryhill's waiting list and a year or two from now you'd have a really cool fighting gun, so to speak.

**M4arc** · #14 05-08-10, 18:51

Thanks guys! Unfortunately it came to me because my father-in-law passed away in 2003 and this was one of his guns. Like I said I'll give it to my son a few years from now so it stays in the family.

It is a Series 70 and in quite good shape.

I'm thinking of doing a MEUSOC clone or just have some Heinie's installed along with a different trigger, beaver tail, and new hammer.

I'll shoot it first and go from there.

MarshallDodge · #15 05-08-10, 20:30

That is a really nice gift and looks in pretty good shape all cleaned it up.

varoadking · #16 05-08-10, 20:33

I'd put a nice set of grips on it and call it good...

Enjoy...

Cagemonkey · #17 05-08-10, 21:37

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Originally Posted by M4arc

Thanks guys! Unfortunately it came to me because my father-in-law passed away in 2003 and this was one of his guns. Like I said I'll give it to my son a few years from now so it stays in the family.

It is a Series 70 and in quite good shape.

I'm thinking of doing a MEUSOC clone or just have some Heinie's installed along with a different trigger, beaver tail, and new hammer.

I'll shoot it first and go from there.

Doesn't it need its ejection port opened up also?

**SHIVAN** · #18 05-08-10, 21:49

If it were mine, and I was so far ahead on the cost (aka free), I would do the following from someone like Novak's or similar:

Lower and flare ejection port
Memory bump beavertail
Extended safety
Extended mag release
Night sights
New hammer
Trigger job
New grips
Replace curved MSH
Dawson Rail

120mm · #19 05-08-10, 22:18

Feedway stoppage only if you don't understand how they work.

I'd keep it stock or MEUSOC it.

There is very little an M1911 needs to be reliable and effective gun. Sights, fresh springs and a properly tuned extractor.

Mainly they need to be maintained correctly.

But then, most guys despise things that require maintenance beyond cleaning. Like high performance solid lifter engines. Or supermodels. Or M1911s. Now, they WANT to like them, but their ineptitude has left them bitter. Or they are the other way, and ascribe near supernatural powers to them. Which means they are going to be disappointed, terminally some day.

Their Boxer engine will grenade on them because they've let shit go for so long. That 6' of gorgeous STILL will ignore them (naw, I'm not going to give him the benefit of the doubt, and say she'll cheat/leave him, because it's not even happening). And they will experience feedway stoppages because they use cheap magazines and the extractor is too tight.

Of course, they will mortgage their children's future with some factory performance car, or a car with Jap writing on the side and a wing, made up by some other dude named Chan, which they will run out of oil and blow up. Or they'll marry some plain chick who secretly fantasizes about the pool boy in an effort to stay awake while he first clumsily gropes at her and then hammers away on her once a month with the lights off. Or he purchases some other pistol with a 20 pound, creepy draggy double action only pulll "because its safer. I mean, really, when you are under stress, your fine motor control, blah, blah, blah...."

3.5 pound, crisp as glass trigger, my man.... Blue steel, and walnut double diamond grips. The pull, the seduction. Go for it.

SeaSoldier · #20 05-08-10, 22:37

I'd send it to Jason Burton and tell him to have his way with it. Then you'd really have a family Heirloom Precision.