Which of these 3 would you chose from? RR1911A1, Colt 1911 or Colt Government

[jmoore]

Thank you all for the input. Today I bought the Government AND the Remington Rand. The Government is much nicer in person than in the terrible pics. The RR is like new with HS barrel and Scovill magazine.
I will get some pics up later on. The Government is FILTHY with dried grease, so bad that the safety took some serious effort and the mainspring housing still won't budge. I tried some penetrating oil and letting it soak.

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The Russian pistols fall into the range C23000 to C89000 so this pistol fits. I will have it lettered later on. Thanks for the input!

I remembered that it was about 50,000 pistols, but thought it started somewhat later on in the S/Ns. Guess I need to re-read my Goddard and Clawsons!


Stupidly, this Govn't Model I've remembered being about in the middle of the "English Contract" Russian pistols and it's in the 60,000s....

[Beginner]

You might be partially correct; seems at 50000 they started marking the frames with the cyrillic text for English order... This in just the opinion of some collectors, so definately not verified. Does however seem to be the case based on a few dozen pistols here in Russias neighbouring country.

[Beginner]

Here are some pics of the guns (with friends)

The other Government is one of the stamped ones sent to Russia in the "English order".
The other RR1911A1 is few thousand pistols apart, very similar (=identical) condition more or less.
The 1902 is from 1905 and VERY shiny


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[browningautorifle]

Very nice looking pistols.

[tmaucher]

I would take the Remington Rand because that's the one I had in the service. I also had a Thomason SMG.
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I will really like to hear about the thompson.

[browningautorifle]

I will really like to hear about the thompson.

What do you want to know about Thompsons?

[Sarge]

Hmm, Thompsons - you mean one of these?
Sarge
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[Beginner]

Those BARs.... please give them to me. At least one

[browningautorifle]

please give them to me

Why would you want those heavy old things?

[Sarge]

Heavy? They only weigh 19.5 lbs. What is wrong with that? Besides the weight helps keep them on target when unloading a mag.
Sarge