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Many of today's generation isn't interested in inheriting these icky old guns. A couple of years ago there was a sickening news video posted online about some guy who inherited his dad's M1911A1, and...

It's a reassembly scratch. Look in the old training manuals and you'll see where they tell you to push the slide stop in, then scoot it up the frame until it slips underneath the plunger and snaps...

Anyone who's read Eugene Sledge's book or watched The Pacific on HBO probably knows just how nasty the combat was on Okinawa, from the torrential rains and mud to the rotting corpses littered...

Wow, that's neat. I have one that's only about 500 numbers lower than that. No story attached to it, however.

These must the special right-hand only models I've heard about. ;)

Nice. Always good to see another one come out of the woodwork.

From what I've noticed prices on 1911 pistols in Europe are fairly low-key. With collecting it's all a matter of supply and demand, and here in the USA the demand for original USGI 1911 pistols has...

It may not have been a big deal at the time (1970's) to modify an original M1911 like that, but now it's a crying shame and not something that can really be fixed. The barrel bushing, mainspring...

Nice pistol LE, it looks way better than the pics the seller provided.

The so-called "idiot scratch" on a USGI pistol is like holster wear in the usual spots on the slide and frame. It is rare to see a pistol that's been used that doesn't have it, which means it's...

Like Johnny said, swapping out incorrect parts with the correct ones will make it all-correct, but by definition it cannot be considered all-original unless the actual original parts were being kept...

If it were my pistol I'd probably just leave it as it is, but if you go on the hunt for a correct vertical H P barrel remember that you'll always be able to recoup the costs if you sell the one...

Congratulations. But just a FYI, the RH grip panel is from a Colt and the SN is way too high for it to have a checkered mainspring housing. Fortunately the correct parts shouldn't be too difficult to...

A lot of people threw away the ugly brown plastic grips that originally came on these. The ones made from the mid to late 60's were even worse, as the plastic used in those would shrink over time....

Colt has always used forged steel for their slides, frames, and barrels. However starting in the 1980's investment castings were used for some of the small parts, such as the thumb safety, grip...

Hi Chuck,

I'll try to get you some better pics of the stock ASAP, and we'll go from there. Thanks.

Colt has issued many commemorative pistols over the years, probably too many. Almost all of them are typically worth the same or less than a plain vanilla Government Model of the same vintage....

Like I said, chunks were falling out of the inletting, so I doubt this old stock can tolerate a major refinishing. The screws all seemed to be fine, but the wood clearly has absorbed moisture over...

IIRC large numbers on M1917's were given to the Kuomintang by the US during World War Two. It is also a fact that China did indeed help North Vietnam during the war, including some numbers of Chinese...

I have an M1917 (Remington receiver, mostly Eddystone parts) that used to be my father's, and it hasn't been shot in over a decade and also has been stored in a cool but relatively dry basement. I...

My father just left me his 1966 Government Model. I first got a chance to fire it at the age of 10 on a New Year's Eve. I could barely hang on to it, but I had a blast and was indelibly hooked as...