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Recoil

Posted: Dec 7th 2009, 09:57 PM

I'll start off this forum with a pic of my Colt 1911.Post up a pic of yours...you know you want to!

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Spot

Posted: Dec 7th 2009, 10:12 PM

Recoil you are a mean person. My next purchase plan is a 1911 and now you are going to show some very nice 1911 and I will not be able to sleep very well for a week.

Looking forward to the pictures.

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Tac56

Posted: Dec 8th 2009, 03:42 PM

This is a pic of the only Colt 1911 in my stable at the moment. It is a semi-collectors item, as only 490 of them were made. This one is # 369. It is a Colt "RECON" 1911, compact model. Obviously it has spent some time in the caring hands of a competent 'Smith and had some work done. It is my favorite Colt of all of them that I have owned. It is a full size frame mated to a mid sized slide/barrel that is slightly shorter than a commander, but longer than an officer's size. It uses standard length mags.

-Tac

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Recoil

Posted: Dec 8th 2009, 09:17 PM

Very nice Tac! That would be a most excellent CCW pistol, well, except for the fact that only 400 were built and it'd be a shame to have a little wear and tear on it from being a "daily driver".

Thanks for the pics, I had never heard of one before now.

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Tac56

Posted: Dec 9th 2009, 01:06 AM

Thanks Recoil.... I have enough pistols in the safe that I can "spread the wealth" and not take out too much on one particular pistol... The recon gets a rotation in the line up often enough that I know the feel of her in my hand without having to look at her to see which one she is... Of all my "daily drivers", my Kimber Ultra CDP has the most "wear and tear", as I carried that gun daily for over 4 years before I started adding others to the mix and letting her rest...

One of the nice things about the Hard Chrome finish of the Recon and my Springfield 1911, is that it wears like iron and never shows the use/abuse. I have well over 10,000 rounds through the Springfield and you would never know it by looking at it. That gun is semi-retired now, as I don't want to have a new barrel fitted and sent to be Mag-Na-Ported to match the slide.

-Tac

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