CMP Carbines

[INLAND44]

I received the Email from CMP and thought " These guys are going to go nuts." and they did. I have all I need or want, two originals and a great shooter. I'd say that I'm saving my money for the 45s, but to pay $1K for a non- heat treated rattletrap like I had in Vietnam is not a good ROI.
I saw a video featuring Jerry Miculek. He said that the WW2 made pistols had only one heat treated part, the slide stop and were expected to last for 3-4K rounds before breaking. Now his late father in law and late B.I.L. the Clarks were pretty good 45 guys. I wonder if that is entirely true? I know that by 1945 Colt was heat treating slides. My F.Bob Chow gun was built on a 1945 made Colt, it was shot probably 50-75K or more when shot on the Army pistol team and it is so tight that you need tools to take it apart. So far from being worn out.

Either you or Jerry are a little mixed up. The slide stop NOTCH in the SLIDE was heat-treated along with the front end of the slide on the M1911A1 starting somewhere in the early '30s. We were beginning to fully treat slides as the war ended. Only a very few fully-hardened slides got on frames before production was halted in 1945. Colt continued with development of the fully-hardened slide and they began to appear on Government Models a few years after the war. You may have one of those slides on your Colt since Colt sold a number of them to the gov during the Korean war. Later, they bought fully-hardened slides from many contractors.