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MI VHNTR
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posted May 21, 2017 04:59 PM
For all kinds of varmints and predators. I just picked up a new SS 1911 Colt Competition pistol in 45 ACP.
The new SS 1911 Colt Competition sits between the SS Colt Delta Elite in 10 MM and the SS Colt LW Commander in 45 ACP.
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4949shooter
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posted May 21, 2017 06:50 PM
Those are nice Colts.
Here are mine:
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MI VHNTR
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posted May 22, 2017 05:41 PM
Your Colt 1911s are pretty darn sharp too. There's just something special about a Colt 1911 pistol.
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Leonard
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posted May 22, 2017 06:08 PM
My Combat Commander cost me about $120 in 1974, in Satin Nickel.
It was stolen in 1975 and recovered ten years later, from a Mexican down on the border.
If guns could talk, I'd sure like to know what it did and where it went. When I got it back I had it tricked out and hard chromed. Probably worthless, as a result?
I guess it's okay for a non- striker fired pistol.
Good hunting. El Bee
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4949shooter
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posted May 22, 2017 07:04 PM
Glad you got it back, Leonard.
That is a great story. What were the circumstances regarding its recovery?
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Leonard
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posted May 23, 2017 08:58 AM
Oh, there wasn't too much to it. I got a letter from the Police Department in the City Of National City. Basically, it said that they had recovered this firearm registered to me and what did I want to do with it? There was a number and I called and talked to some Lieutenant. He told me that they recovered it from a Mexican National and ran the serial number and my name popped up. I told him that my nephew, active duty Marine Corps, lived down there and he could pick it up for me. David said the cop took it from a drawer in his desk and actually tossed it at him, in a casual way. Still, I always thought it sounded like amateur behavior, Dave might not be sure it was in a safe condition? Anyway, he gave it back to me one or two weeks later. End of story.
Oh, one other thing. My parents had a 41 footer that we used to cruise to Catalina, usually in the summer and one time, as my dad was piloting, we were shooting off the back deck. I let my nephew David, same kid but then only 9 or 10, shoot it. There was only one round in it and I don't think he had ever fired a gun before? Well, he limp-wristed it, and it actually jumped out of his hands. I caught it at the last minute before it went over the side and lost forever! I don't know what I did wrong, except just about everything, in retrospect. When I talked to David at my father's funeral, about 15 years later, he was wearing his Dress Blues. He didn't remember the incident?
Good hunting. El Bee
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MI VHNTR
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posted May 23, 2017 05:36 PM
Leonard, that's an interesting read about your Colt pistol. The Series 70 Colt Combat Commander is one fine pistol. If that pistol could only talk.
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Paul Melching
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posted May 25, 2017 10:05 AM
Beautiful examples of the legendary 1911.
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