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1911 Handgun Assembly Animation Mouse Click on the film strip thumbnail. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4P4XJTKzKEU 1911 Handgun...
Blueprints and Specifications for the M1911A1 .45 Caliber Service Pistol (U.S. Ordnance Department blueprints dating from 1936 with revisions...
Cleaning a Mil-Spec 1911-A1 Mouse Click on the film strip thumbnail. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fI33et_ar_I Cleaning a Mil-Spec...
COMBAT FIRING WITH HAND GUNS - Department of Defense 1944 - PIN 20504 - CORRECT GRIPS; THREE BASIC FIRING POSITIONS; FIRING QUICKLY AND INSTINCTIVELY.
Fundamentals of Small Arms Weapons (WWII U.S. Training Films) These combined videos demonstrate the mechanics of pistols, rifles and machine guns....
Infantry Weapons and their Effects (WWII and Korean era U.S. Training Films) "Infantry Weapons and Their Effects" is an official WWII era...
Small Arms Instructors Manual (1918) Compiled by the Small Arms Instruction Corps Format: 234 pages - E.P. Dutton @ Company, New York (1918) ...
Springfield Armoury 1911 Mil-Spec Disassembly/Assembly Mouse Click on the film strip thumbnail. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ufd6W1a2NHc...
TM 9-1295 U.S. Pistols & Revolvers - M1911, M1911A1 and S&W M1917 (1942) Ordnance Maintenance Manual War Department - November 9th, 1942 Format:...
TM-43-0001-27 - Army Ammunition Data Sheets (1994) DISTRIBUTION STATEMENT: Approved for public release: distribution is unlimited....
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A nice Colt from my Colt collection. I think this was shipped Jan. 1918 not sure? The condition is decent. Thanks for looking, ...
Not what you probably expected. :) 1942/43 Colt M1911A1 858090 Original and unaltered. Shipped between late November 1942 and January 1943 to...
This Colt came from Lt George Halsey, USAAF. Lt Halsey flew with the 6Th Fighter Group in the P-47N, which was the long range version used in the...
Note the different paper. That's the way I got them, so I left them as is!!! Also note the different radius at the top front of the dust cover.....
I was at Walmart this morning and this cloth caught my eye so I bought a yard. I think it makes a pretty good background. Uh, the 1942 Navy Colt...
This gun does not belong to me, I've seen it on the Net, in all honesty as soon as I noticed I thought it was some sort of fake, still I'd love to...
I know this is a shot in the dark, hence the title, but I have a WB inspected colt frame SN 843815 with a slide numbered 843762. Close but no cigar....
I have always wanted one of these Colt DA Model 1917s. They are a handful of pistola!!! I have owned a 1917 S&W, but not a Colt... The serial...
This appears to be a typical rebuild of the post WW II era. Most probably during the big rebuild of the Korean War era. Many of the rebuilds were...
This Colt is in the US&S duplicate serial number range. It also was shipped to the Navy and was aboard a Navy supply ship...
Ensign Tom Anderson was the OOD on the USS UTAH when the Japs attacked Pearl Harbor. He had just assumed the watch at 0800 when a torpedo struck the...
I bought this Colt at the Spokane gun show..
I bought this nice Ithaca at the WAC show today...
I have a Sestima 1911A1 colt model semi-auto, and would like it to shoot a bit more accurately. I believe Colt parts will interchange, should I start...
A friend of mine showed me a .38 caliber Colt the other day. It had a MR serial #suffix, a national match barrel marked with 2 stars but I do not...
I was pretty impressed with the work done to this old pistol. I'm confident the refinish wasn't done as a restoration, but simply to clean up the...
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