Pic's of your 1911's - Page 8 - The Firearms Forum

Bruce FLinch · 02-18-2007, 09:53 PM

Thought I had already posted my paro Para's

The Black P1640 is for IPSC. After 20K rounds I had a new Schumann bull barrel & Wilson trigger installed. The stainless P1445 is my IDPA friend & latest edition to the armory.

I just love them both.

yankeedoodle · 02-21-2007, 06:02 PM

Nighthawk Custom Talon

Crpdeth · 02-21-2007, 08:29 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by cliffevans

himmm I think all you guys are missing a little something call thedaxshop.com the grips guys the grips look at mine

Not "ALL You Guys"...

Read 'em and weep.

Crpdeth

firebird · 02-21-2007, 08:55 PM

cliff--LOVE the grips man! WAY groovy!

firebird · 02-21-2007, 08:58 PM

Crp--nice knife...use it much?

Pistolenschutze · 02-21-2007, 10:10 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by firebird

Crp--nice knife...use it much?

I hear Crp uses it mostly for cleaning birds, Avis Flammae. Could be just a rumor though.

Gunny45 · 02-24-2007, 03:17 PM

Dan Wesson 45 ACP Commander Bobtail Patriot...

I have to add my DW Custom 45 AVP

stash247 · 02-25-2007, 03:13 AM

Ns 1911, you have either a winning lottery ticket, or a live grenade, in that pistol!
I see no serial number, where it should be, on the righthand side of the frame; if it can be proven, to be before 1934 production, it could be gold!
But, as it is marked "U. S. Property" I know those folks well enough to know that, if it was ever really, theirs, there was a serial muumber, on the right hand side of the frame, under the slide stop pin.
The fact that it is a 1911, not a 1911-A1, is visually obvious, for both frame and slide, and this makes it's birthday pre 'National Firearms Act'(1934), which was the law making a serial number a requirement, removal of such, a crime, etc, IIRC
My personal thought is this is a very early Colt "Lunch box" Model 1911 Pistol, stolen, a piece at a time, from the Colt Factory, by an employee.
Whoever did this is very old, to dead, today, but if you should be able to track the pistol, backwards, as to ownership, and document the provenance, the gun might well be worth far too much, to shoot!

stash247 · 02-25-2007, 01:05 PM

[IMG]1911AS2.zip[/IMG]

This is the newest of my toys; Done by Armand Swenson, in 1968.
It's even nicer than it looks!

45Smashemflat · 02-25-2007, 08:20 PM

That is SMOKIN' Stash! Is it set up for softball, or will it shoot anything? Out here (South GA) I never stumble across cool stuff like Swensons.... (Green with envy....)

45Smashemflat · 02-25-2007, 08:31 PM

Here's a couple -

New Nighthawk and older Eclipse Ultra Custom Shop. Oh, and a 325PD - its a .45 too.....

stash247 · 02-26-2007, 01:39 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by 45Smashemflat

That is SMOKIN' Stash! Is it set up for softball, or will it shoot anything? Out here (South GA) I never stumble across cool stuff like Swensons.... (Green with envy....)

Set up for soft ball, likely aound the 185 gr Federal ammo, but with an 18# spring, would eat anything, I suspect.
Too pretty, and too hard to replace, to fool around with high end loads, in.
Got several 5" 1911's built around 'big number' loads, so, likely, I will never know, for sure.
Smash, you are obviously on line, so don't lay that South Georgia BS, on me!
I found this one, via a friend, in Washington State, and got into the deal when the friend had second thoughts about the pistol; When Donny first asked about the gun, he was reluctant to 'dive in', over the price, and questions of originality. Having told him it was the 'real deal', and a bargain, he still had reservations, to which my comment was, "One of us needs to buy it"; he said, "Go for it", and the rest is history!
This was on another 1911 Board, without a price, until the seller was pressed, to make a price, as I understand. One look at the pics told me enough to see that it was a genuine pistol, and a (free) cingular cell call confirmed all the little details, at which point, the details were the only issue!
That's the treasure in all the 'on-line' communications, I endure, hoping for a pearl, amidst the swine! Once in a while,the pearl appears, and needs to be siezed, with gusto!
Since I am in South Texas, the 'too remote' arguement simply won't fly!
All the best, Terry

45Smashemflat · 02-26-2007, 02:05 PM

My bad, I thought I recalled seeing a post where you found it at a show. Yep, I troll a bit and lucked into my recent Marlin purchase on *********. A fair trade at a fair price and a local FFL transfer. PRetty smooth transaction overall. Either way, you done good, that's a good looking piece.

cec · 03-03-2007, 01:59 PM

Shots of the new and the old. A brand new Kimber Custom II and my carry piece, the Custom Compact.

budkole · 03-24-2007, 10:08 AM

Can you smell....What the Rock....Is cooking!

Rock Island Armory (RIA). My competition shooter. Smooth as silk, shoots whatever you can feed it.

1911Kid · 03-30-2007, 09:54 AM

Kimber Custom Stainless II

mentalcase · 04-15-2007, 02:14 AM

http://i161.photobucket.com/albums/t...0000/KanCD.jpg

stash247 · 04-15-2007, 08:26 AM

Smash, in reviewing this thread, I now understand what you said, about the gunshow; it was another Swenson, a 9mm FN High Power, also converted to double action, by Louis Seecamp, that I rooted up at a gunshow!
Obviously "not right", laying on the table, I picked it up, spurred by the roll pin, in the 'dust cover' portion of the slide, a 'giveaway' so to speak, of it's provenance, saw the applied bushing, realised that it was 'too fat', and discovered the 'applied' rear strap.
For this pistol, the seller could have named any price, and I'd have paid!
Armand did not particularly like the 'High Power', preferring to work on
1911's, but did accurise about two dozen, over the years, and the roll pin, and bushing, were a dead 'giveaway'!
Keep your ducks in a row, and know, thouroughly, the subject you pursue; that's my advice! I happened to be in the right place, at the right time, with ample amounts of cash, one of the benefits of being "without adult supervision", ie, single, again! And, knew my subject, intimately ( I visited, frequently, and worked for, Armand, for a while, when he was still in Gardena, Ca, so, have a really easy time recognising his work!
Even so, the FN was a treasure, and after the young man who sold it to me, was identified to me as Tim Ferguson, son of the late Gunwriter, Tom Ferguson, it became even clearer this was a significant buy. After talking to Charlie Petty, at the direction of a mutual friend, and being told, by him, that Larry Seecamp immediately recognised the pistol, as Louis , his dad, had made comment that they were "More work than they were worth, to convert", and that he would never do another one, the reality of it's uniqueness fell on me like a ton of bricks!
I still am looking for a 'staight up' Swenson 'smithed, High Power, and may well die, before finding it, but I am looking! Every show, every shop. And if I find one of his early 'Bobcats', I will buy that, too, without regard to price!
My fetish, and budget, I understand, but, like anything else, with a finite supply (the guy is dead) and an increasing demand, the worth can only go UP!

mentalcase · 04-15-2007, 10:29 PM

http://i161.photobucket.com/albums/t...0000/KanCD.jpg

berto64 · 04-16-2007, 12:25 AM

budkole, welcome to TFF.

We hope you visit all of our forums and post often. Don't be shy and join the inmates who are running the asylum. lolol

usmc8541 · 04-18-2007, 08:45 AM

Alright here goes, this is my first post & I thought what better than in the forum for the World's finest pistol!!!

Just a few I have here with me.

Top is a Caspian Custom job I did myself, Second is my "Go anywhere with me!!" Spring Field MC Operator, 3rd is CZ Bobtail "Carry Gun", & Last is a "Custom" Springfield Project I did myself. it started out as a plain-jane WWII SS, but it has a lot of up-grades. thanks for having me.

Crpdeth · 04-18-2007, 05:32 PM

USMC

Very, very nice...I love the two tone jobs.

Welcome to the forums, I hope you stick around and post often.

Crpdeth

Bruce FLinch · 04-19-2007, 12:23 AM

USMC, You in Nor Cal or down there in Bad Cal?

Real nice looking pistols!

usmc8541 · 04-19-2007, 09:31 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Bruce FLinch

USMC, You in Nor Cal or down there in Bad Cal?

Real nice looking pistols!

I'm down in Bad Cal.

San Diego Sector of the PRK

Bruce FLinch · 04-19-2007, 11:54 PM

At least you're south of the real problem area!

Best Wishes on your visit. I loved SD when I was stationed there as a Squid.
But don't that against me!

02-18-2007, 09:53 PM	#176
Bruce FLinch Advanced Senior Member Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Bay Point, Kali..aka Gun Point Posts: 5,016	Re: Pic's of your 1911's Thought I had already posted my paro Para's The Black P1640 is for IPSC. After 20K rounds I had a new Schumann bull barrel & Wilson trigger installed. The stainless P1445 is my IDPA friend & latest edition to the armory. I just love them both. Attached Images __________________ A bad day @ the Range, is better than a good day @ work.

02-21-2007, 06:02 PM	#177
yankeedoodle Member Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: West of Lake Michigan Posts: 9	Re: Pic's of your 1911's Nighthawk Custom Talon __________________ NO ONE CAN MAKE YOU FEEL INFERIOR WITHOUT YOUR CONSENT.

02-21-2007, 08:55 PM	#179
firebird Advanced Senior Member Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: In the recesses of my little mind... Posts: 1,233	Re: Pic's of your 1911's cliff--LOVE the grips man! WAY groovy! __________________ ***************************** “Let them call me a rebel, and welcome; I feel no concern from it. For I should suffer the misery of devils, were I to make a whore of my soul.” ~Thomas Paine "It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it." ~Aristotle "Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall." ~Confucius Alis volat propiis ~ She flies with her own wings Rara avis

02-21-2007, 08:58 PM	#180
firebird Advanced Senior Member Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: In the recesses of my little mind... Posts: 1,233	Re: Pic's of your 1911's Crp--nice knife...use it much? __________________ ***************************** “Let them call me a rebel, and welcome; I feel no concern from it. For I should suffer the misery of devils, were I to make a whore of my soul.” ~Thomas Paine "It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it." ~Aristotle "Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall." ~Confucius Alis volat propiis ~ She flies with her own wings Rara avis

02-24-2007, 03:17 PM	#182
Gunny45 Member Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Upstate, NY Posts: 16	Re: Pic's of your 1911's Dan Wesson 45 ACP Commander Bobtail Patriot... I have to add my DW Custom 45 AVP Last edited by Gunny45; 09-06-2008 at 05:03 PM..

02-25-2007, 03:13 AM	#183
stash247 Advanced Senior Member Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: Central Texas Posts: 2,815	Re: Pic's of your 1911's Ns 1911, you have either a winning lottery ticket, or a live grenade, in that pistol! I see no serial number, where it should be, on the righthand side of the frame; if it can be proven, to be before 1934 production, it could be gold! But, as it is marked "U. S. Property" I know those folks well enough to know that, if it was ever really, theirs, there was a serial muumber, on the right hand side of the frame, under the slide stop pin. The fact that it is a 1911, not a 1911-A1, is visually obvious, for both frame and slide, and this makes it's birthday pre 'National Firearms Act'(1934), which was the law making a serial number a requirement, removal of such, a crime, etc, IIRC My personal thought is this is a very early Colt "Lunch box" Model 1911 Pistol, stolen, a piece at a time, from the Colt Factory, by an employee. Whoever did this is very old, to dead, today, but if you should be able to track the pistol, backwards, as to ownership, and document the provenance, the gun might well be worth far too much, to shoot! __________________ Don't start no s**t and there won't be none, Terry

02-25-2007, 08:20 PM	#185
45Smashemflat Advanced Senior Member Join Date: Oct 2003 Posts: 1,494	Re: Pic's of your 1911's That is SMOKIN' Stash! Is it set up for softball, or will it shoot anything? Out here (South GA) I never stumble across cool stuff like Swensons.... (Green with envy....)

02-25-2007, 08:31 PM	#186
45Smashemflat Advanced Senior Member Join Date: Oct 2003 Posts: 1,494	Re: Pic's of your 1911's Here's a couple - New Nighthawk and older Eclipse Ultra Custom Shop. Oh, and a 325PD - its a .45 too..... Attached Images Last edited by 45Smashemflat; 02-25-2007 at 08:33 PM..

02-26-2007, 02:05 PM	#188
45Smashemflat Advanced Senior Member Join Date: Oct 2003 Posts: 1,494	Re: Pic's of your 1911's My bad, I thought I recalled seeing a post where you found it at a show. Yep, I troll a bit and lucked into my recent Marlin purchase on *********. A fair trade at a fair price and a local FFL transfer. PRetty smooth transaction overall. Either way, you done good, that's a good looking piece.

03-03-2007, 01:59 PM	#189
cec Senior Member Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: New Hampshire Posts: 501	Re: Pic's of your 1911's Shots of the new and the old. A brand new Kimber Custom II and my carry piece, the Custom Compact. Attached Images __________________ Carpe Jugulum When asked why I wanted my CCW, I was tempted to say "Fishing".

03-24-2007, 10:08 AM	#190
budkole Member Join Date: Mar 2007 Posts: 1	Re: Pic's of your 1911's Can you smell....What the Rock....Is cooking! Rock Island Armory (RIA). My competition shooter. Smooth as silk, shoots whatever you can feed it. Last edited by budkole; 03-24-2007 at 10:13 AM..

03-30-2007, 09:54 AM	#191
1911Kid V.I.P. Member Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: NC Posts: 56	Re: Pic's of your 1911's Kimber Custom Stainless II __________________ “Laws that forbid the carrying of arms disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes. Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they server rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man.” - Thomas Jefferson

04-15-2007, 02:14 AM	#192
mentalcase Member Join Date: Apr 2007 Posts: 13	Re: Pic's of your 1911's http://i161.photobucket.com/albums/t...0000/KanCD.jpg __________________ Kimber stainless Glock 17 sig p230 SW 649 SW636 Raven MP 25

04-15-2007, 08:26 AM	#193
stash247 Advanced Senior Member Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: Central Texas Posts: 2,815	Re: Pic's of your 1911's Smash, in reviewing this thread, I now understand what you said, about the gunshow; it was another Swenson, a 9mm FN High Power, also converted to double action, by Louis Seecamp, that I rooted up at a gunshow! Obviously "not right", laying on the table, I picked it up, spurred by the roll pin, in the 'dust cover' portion of the slide, a 'giveaway' so to speak, of it's provenance, saw the applied bushing, realised that it was 'too fat', and discovered the 'applied' rear strap. For this pistol, the seller could have named any price, and I'd have paid! Armand did not particularly like the 'High Power', preferring to work on 1911's, but did accurise about two dozen, over the years, and the roll pin, and bushing, were a dead 'giveaway'! Keep your ducks in a row, and know, thouroughly, the subject you pursue; that's my advice! I happened to be in the right place, at the right time, with ample amounts of cash, one of the benefits of being "without adult supervision", ie, single, again! And, knew my subject, intimately ( I visited, frequently, and worked for, Armand, for a while, when he was still in Gardena, Ca, so, have a really easy time recognising his work! Even so, the FN was a treasure, and after the young man who sold it to me, was identified to me as Tim Ferguson, son of the late Gunwriter, Tom Ferguson, it became even clearer this was a significant buy. After talking to Charlie Petty, at the direction of a mutual friend, and being told, by him, that Larry Seecamp immediately recognised the pistol, as Louis , his dad, had made comment that they were "More work than they were worth, to convert", and that he would never do another one, the reality of it's uniqueness fell on me like a ton of bricks! I still am looking for a 'staight up' Swenson 'smithed, High Power, and may well die, before finding it, but I am looking! Every show, every shop. And if I find one of his early 'Bobcats', I will buy that, too, without regard to price! My fetish, and budget, I understand, but, like anything else, with a finite supply (the guy is dead) and an increasing demand, the worth can only go UP! __________________ Don't start no s*t and there won't be none, Terry Last edited by stash247; 04-15-2007 at 08:29 AM..*

04-15-2007, 10:29 PM	#194
mentalcase Member Join Date: Apr 2007 Posts: 13	Re: Pic's of your 1911's http://i161.photobucket.com/albums/t...0000/KanCD.jpg __________________ Kimber stainless Glock 17 sig p230 SW 649 SW636 Raven MP 25

04-16-2007, 12:25 AM	#195
berto64 VMBB Admin Staff Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Owyhee County, Idaho Contributor Posts: 7,388	Re: Pic's of your 1911's budkole, welcome to TFF. We hope you visit all of our forums and post often. Don't be shy and join the inmates who are running the asylum. lolol __________________ Be who you are & say what you will, Those that matter won't mind and those that mind don't matter. I'm a bitter clinger, One Nation Under God.

04-18-2007, 08:45 AM	#196
usmc8541 Member Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Texan, who is away from home!!! in the Sunny South Pacific!!! Posts: 7	Re: Pic's of your 1911's Alright here goes, this is my first post & I thought what better than in the forum for the World's finest pistol!!! Just a few I have here with me. Top is a Caspian Custom job I did myself, Second is my "Go anywhere with me!!" Spring Field MC Operator, 3rd is CZ Bobtail "Carry Gun", & Last is a "Custom" Springfield Project I did myself. it started out as a plain-jane WWII SS, but it has a lot of up-grades. thanks for having me. Attached Images __________________ The only thing needed for evil to exist......is for good men to stand by and do nothing!!! "Life should NOT be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in an attractive and well-preserved body but, rather, to skid in sideways - Coca Cola in one hand, hamburger in the other - body thoroughly used up, totally worn out and screaming 'WOO HOO! What a Ride!'" Last edited by usmc8541; 04-18-2007 at 09:16 AM..

04-18-2007, 05:32 PM	#197
Crpdeth Advanced Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: Location: Location Contributor Posts: 8,247	Re: Pic's of your 1911's USMC Very, very nice...I love the two tone jobs. Welcome to the forums, I hope you stick around and post often. Crpdeth __________________ Our greatest pretenses are built up not to hide the evil and the ugly in us, but our emptiness. The hardest thing to hide is something that is not there. ~Eric Hoffer

04-19-2007, 12:23 AM	#198
Bruce FLinch Advanced Senior Member Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Bay Point, Kali..aka Gun Point Posts: 5,016	Re: Pic's of your 1911's USMC, You in Nor Cal or down there in Bad Cal? Real nice looking pistols! __________________ A bad day @ the Range, is better than a good day @ work.

04-19-2007, 11:54 PM	#200
Bruce FLinch Advanced Senior Member Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Bay Point, Kali..aka Gun Point Posts: 5,016	Re: Pic's of your 1911's At least you're south of the real problem area! Best Wishes on your visit. I loved SD when I was stationed there as a Squid. But don't that against me! __________________ A bad day @ the Range, is better than a good day @ work.