Lookee what walked into the Spokane gunshow!!!!

[TerryS]

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.

[the dude]

thats one perty "ol ugly" great find

[Duane Hansen]

Colt 1911, serial number 233585 was shipped to the Navy in the same 1600 pistol shipment as the one John posted above.

[JimF4M1s (Deceased)]

John,
Courageous action, well done.
How did you get that 1911 home?

[tabbat8]

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.