Is the information you give on where shipped to private or proprietary ? I have 233585 which is supposed to be navy. Alas, it was rebuilt and parked and has the wrong period slide on it.
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Is the information you give on where shipped to private or proprietary ? I have 233585 which is supposed to be navy. Alas, it was rebuilt and parked and has the wrong period slide on it.
thats one perty "ol ugly" great find:clap:
Colt 1911, serial number 233585 was shipped to the Navy in the same 1600 pistol shipment as the one John posted above.
John,
Courageous action, well done.
How did you get that 1911 home?
i've got a 94 winnie too... passed down through the family by the original purchaser.... the serial number is a hand- stamped 5 digit serial in the 65xxx series, and at least one serial site says it was made in 1896. that fits the family records.
along with the flip-up sight on the barrel, it has a factory installed flip-up post sight rearward of the hammer. as much as i yearn to take my son out shooting with it, and despite the claim thyat the nickel-steel barrel is for smokeless powder, i'm leery of putting any modern loads through it.