A niche filled

[Mako]

To whomever decided this was needed...Thank you.  I look forward to the discussions.  Any idea who the moderator(s) will be?
Regards,
Mako

[Pit Mule]

Yup, I agree. Was wondering when it would appear.

Pit Mule

[Paladin UK]

I fer one, cant wait ta start seein piccies of them 1911`s spittin fire `n` brimstone!!
Good luck to ya`ll

Paladin (What lurved his series `70 duo tone Gold Cup      ) UK

[Delmonico]

It was Marshall Halloway's idea, if everyone plays nice we won't need a moderator.

[DUKE DEADEYE NUKEM]

Glad it's here. 

[litl rooster]

yee haw..........

[Blackpowder Burn]

Very timely.  I just bought my first 1911-A1 last week for Wild Bunch.  My local club is holding its first Wild Bunch side match in May.

[Springfield Slim]

Here ya go, PUK.

[litl rooster]

damn that's smells like..................victory..



great shot Slim

[Montana Slim]

Yup, good to see ya'll here!!

Slim

[Sir Charles deMouton-Black]

Very timely.  I just bought my first 1911-A1 last week for Wild Bunch.  My local club is holding its first Wild Bunch side match in May.

Why not use an original 1911 like I do!  Did you know that the 1911 was Canada's official sidearm for the C.E.F.  (Canadian Expeditionary Force)  The ones that survived the trenches served in Canada's Airborne force in WWII.

[Blackpowder Burn]

The answer is real simple - cost!  I came across a very lightly used Springfield stainless steel GI Expert for $450.  Couldn't pass it up - especially when compared to the price of new and used Colts.  Also considering all the other "stuff" I had to buy to get it up and running - Dillon caliber change kit and powder measure, dies, bullet mold, sizing die, leather, yada, yada, yada......

[Sir Charles deMouton-Black]

My 1911 cost $100!  Then I had to get grips, as the ones on it were heat-shrunk.  Eventually I changed several more parts.

It came out of a really grungie shipment apparently out of East Germany.  Supposedly they were WWI and WWII war-booty pieces which were then used as loaners for nefarious purposes during the Cold War.  One was chrome plated, and several had garish home made plastic grips.  There was about a dozen left in the box when I selected mine.  I havn't run the serial number yet.  It would be great if it were from the 5,000 purchased by Canada for WWI.

[Blackpowder Burn]

Sir Charles,

You did indeed come across a great deal - both literally and from the historical perspective.  I'm just a tad green with envy! 

[Paladin UK]

Fer SS.........

Bloody Brill Pard...............    jest..........

Bloody Brill!!
Paladin (Whats reeeel  Green with Envy   ) UK

[Sir Charles deMouton-Black]

Paladin;  Do you have one of those carbine length barrels for a 1911, to avoid the handgun ban

Then you could try & locate a carbine butt like the ones the Lebanese Christian militias used!

P.S.;  7;30 pm.  The serial # of my 1911 is NOT one of the 5,000 C.E.F. pistols, which were ordered from Colt from September to late October 1914, with deliveries complete by mid-November, 1914.  They were all commercial sourced and had the "C" prefix.  Mine does not.  Mine has serial number 201XXX, and the slide inscription on the right is MODEL OF 1911 U.S.ARMY.  I can't read the left side of the slide as this pistol had been neglected a long tome ago, and a slap up job of phosphate refinishing covers the abuse.  The serial number seems irregular and may have been "freshened-up" and some point.

P.S.  My 1911 was apparently manufactured by Colt in 1917.

P.P.S. Further reading of CANADIAN MILITARY HANDGUNS, 1855-1985, by Clive M. Law, 1994, Museum Restoration Service, indicates that Canada received 1,515 1911A1 pistols during WWII.  Serial no.s are in the 927,000 - 940,000 range. They were sold off in 1959 and bear "C broad arrow" and Birmingham 1959 proofmarks.  Miscellaneous pistols were purchased from civilians during WWII in Canada, some of them being used by S.O.E

[JD Alan]

Thanks Springfield Slim, that is in fact a Great shot!