Posting Pictures

[Bubba-7]

As far as the 1911 guys say, this one is not surpose to exist. It is said the Savage slides were parkerized and used as replacements.
It is on a 500K serial number Colt frame. The right time period when Savage slides were made. It looks nice and wishful think looks original. No way to prove it or anything.

[JimF4M1s (Deceased)]

Roger,

Fine looking pistol.
Thanks for the full pictures.

Jim

[Harlan (Deceased)]

OK Harlan, what did you take the picture of your camera with?

Hi Jim,
I took the photos of the set-up with my high-end Sony with the large telephoto lens and a gazillion functions that I haven't figured out how to use yet (It was a gift) When I got the new Sony I gave my old simpler Sony to my brother in law who didn't have a camera but had a new baby. I missed the old Sony for taking these type photos because it was smaller and easy to use on the tripod, and just searched ebay one day as a lark and found that people were almost giving the old S-85 models away for 'Buy It Now' auctions. The one I bought for $17.00 also came with all kinds of accessories that I never knew existed, extra rechargeable battery packs, etc, etc.

Now back to Roger's COOL 1911! I didn't mean to highjack his thread, and happy to see he figured out how to get his photos to post.
He takes very good pictures, and I want to see more of his 'toys' I haven't seen before!

[Bubba-7]

Many years ago before I retired and had toys, you know they are all gone now, I was trying to use the stacking swivels on Garands. I had two and I could not get them to stand up. They kept falling over. So I figured out a way to stack two Garands so they would not fall over. Here is a old picture ten, fifteen years ago.
I got two Garands to stand without falling over. No Carbines were injured in the making of this picture. They were junker carbines anyway.

[wtmr]

takes a brave foolish soul to post a foto like that here

[Johnny Peppers]

Bubba-7

It isn't known for sure where the S marked slides came from. One guess is the A. J. Savage Company, but there is no proof of that. Savage, among other manufacturers, had a contract to manufacture the Model 1911 pistol, but they did not get into production before WWI ended and the contract was cancelled with no pistols being delivered. It is known that a few small parts were delivered to Ordnance after the contract was cancelled, but no slides are mentioned in these parts. It was a requirement that the slides on the Model 1911 pistols have the manufacturer's name, which was an Ordnance specification, and the slides in question do not.
The patent data on the slides is identical to the Remington-UMC slides, without the Remington logo and name. Sedgley did do contract work for Ordnance, and their logo was a circled S. Possibly Sedgley bought left over slides from Remington-UMC and removed the logo and address, and added their circle S.
The required finish for the Model 1911 was blue, and phosphate was not used on new production until 1941 on the Model 1911A1. The slides in question were used in rebuilds, and a 500K serial number Model 1911 Colt could only have gotten the slide in a post WWI rebuild. In all likelihood the finish in rebuild would have been phosphate.

[jmoore]

Photobucket hosting is the only way I ever figured out to post photos. Never could get one to load to the site directly. Fortunately for us, Badger made this site capture the images so they don't go away if the external link is lost later on. Bravo!

[Bill Hollinger]

Perfect milspec, they are the old style handles.

I can not stand the new "ergo" grip they are using now!

[painter777]

I remember that picture of Bubba having a obvious George Dickel moment

[JimF4M1s (Deceased)]

Me too. Remember thinking I hope it doesn't collapse.

I remember that picture of Bubba having a obvious George Dickel moment