1911 Picture thread - show us yours

[BigSlick]

Couldn't wait any longer.

Show us your 1911's

Any brand, pedigreed or shooters, race gun or milspec.

I luv 1911's an know some a ya got some I ain't seen yet.

Plus, Mullah gotta post a pic a dat Commander again, I love dat look like crazy.

[cohutt]

well it's not the first time this pic has been posted, that's for sure.
Kimber tac custom II :patriot:

http://i107.photobucket.com/albums/m284/cohutt/Bulletlab011.jpg

[BigSlick]

I gots a bud live out by DC is a 10mm freak. I a see if I can get him ta send me some pics a his 1911's.

Dat few he gots a brang ya to ya knees they so sweet.

[freakshow10mm]

Kimber Pro Carry 10mm
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v239/freakshow10mm/Pro%20Carry%2010mm%20Project/DSC02372.jpg

Don't have this anymore but this was my Para P16 10mm. Getting ready to do another one.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v239/freakshow10mm/Guns/10mmPicssafetiesandtriggerdone008.jpg

[RustyFN]

Rock Island Armory 45 Auto

http://im1.shutterfly.com/procserv/47b8dd00b3127cceb629b0e6406800000026100DZOGblm4Yo

http://im1.shutterfly.com/procserv/47b8dd00b3127cceb629b0ec406200000026100DZOGblm4Yo

Rusty

[killarbb]

my smith


is it really a 1911? after all the extractor is on the outside?(all i know is that it has never given me any problems.......well except for the one time when i tried to make the trigger better):bigun2:


http://www.hunt101.com/data/500/medium/2811koenig.JPG

[xtimberman]

I had one of the Series 70 Colts that was pretty finicky, so when my Father-in-Law gave us his WWII P.T.O. Commemorative, I was anxious to try it out. It shot circles around my Series 70 and operates well with a variety of bullet designs, so the plain one got sold. I installed Novak combat sights, some Kimber checkered grip panels, and an extended safety (since this pic was taken). Nice Sunday-go-to-meeting-gun.

xtm

[Bogey]

I have since put a skeletonized trigger pad on it. I hated the straight pad on it.

This is NOT the Performance Center model.


http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v520/Bogey1155/DK1911.jpg


http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v520/Bogey1155/DK1911_1.jpg


http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v520/Bogey1155/Sidearmor.jpg

[Bogey]

Oh, I almost forgetted... killarbb, mine has run like a top. Not ONE problem, ever.

[killarbb]

well the only reason mine didnt run right, well i didnt understand how to make the sear spring work right......i had a severe case of hammer follow.......like 8 rounds at a time. it was fun for a bit

[Fatdaddy]

Here's the Charles Daley I picked up back in October. The bbl it came with had a crummy bore and after posting a question on one of the 1911 forums the president of Charles Daley (Michael Kassnar) PM'd me.
He sent a call tag and within 2 weeks I had my gun back with a brand new bbl. I thought that was pretty cool.76

[CJStudent]

Here's my current carry gun, Taurus PT1911:

http://i162.photobucket.com/albums/t258/cjstudent_2007/resizeIMG_0211.jpg


Carried in a just-recieved-from-midway-today Galco Summer Comfort holster.

[freakshow10mm]

Bogey, if you still have that flat trigger I want it. Name your price. I love flat triggers.

[BigSlick]

I like em too.

Take away all da push

I gotta do dat ta one a my Commanders an work wit it a lil bit. Might go ta usin a flat trigger on my carry guns

[freakshow10mm]

Had one on my Para (in the pic). Ugly as all get out, but I found it forces me to use my finger pad rather than the joint. Long, flat triggers are my favorite. The Para one is a Dawson, made only for fatties. Hard to find a single stack long, flat. Brownells is hit and miss. Sometimes they have them, sometimes not.

[MullahElRon]

http://i30.tinypic.com/nnqipl.jpg



http://i25.tinypic.com/29eou35.jpg




http://i30.tinypic.com/k2fpjs.jpg



http://i27.tinypic.com/260egdj.jpg




http://i25.tinypic.com/23m4to8.jpg

[okie]

http://i125.photobucket.com/albums/p64/okie1911/11.jpg

[Bogey]

Bogey, if you still have that flat trigger I want it. Name your price. I love flat triggers.

My friend that did the trigger job now owns it.

It was part of the deal. :supergrin:

[nwsalmon]

I just picked up a DW PM7 on Thursday. Scroll towards the bottom of the thread. I already posted pics in another thread so as not to burn up any bandwidth here's the link:

http://www.glockpost.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1062

[pdg45acp]

Here's my Kimber

http://i101.photobucket.com/albums/m54/nfe6848m/Kimber_Tanto.jpg

[Blackdog]

Dan Wesson PointMan
http://webpages.charter.net/degge/PMA-B.jpg

[KCGunnr]

Colt Sistema
Picked it up in the gun show parking lot for $150.
No finish left whatsoever, but it shoots OK.

I bought it to learn some 1911 gunsmithing skills on.
http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a267/bscott433/Colt%20Sistema/Sistema001.jpg

[TwoShot]

Ok Ya talked me in to it.

http://i127.photobucket.com/albums/p132/TooShot/38andUpdatedColt45010jpg.jpg

[Fatdaddy]

Colt Sistema
Picked it up in the gun show parking lot for $150.
No finish left whatsoever, but it shoots OK.

I bought it to learn some 1911 gunsmithing skills on.
http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a267/bscott433/Colt%20Sistema/Sistema001.jpg

$150 1911! Now Thats a thing of beauty.
:patriot:

[MONTEGOD7SS]

That kinda looks like that GP100 Freak picked up awhile back. When you say you picked it up in the parking lot, did it happen to be under a truck tire? Just kidding, I love guns that show they've been used! Nothing better on a gun than holster wear showing it ain't been sitting in a gun safe its whole life.

[chewy]

Dnag! Had to sell this one fer my kid's 1st grade tuition. Justified me gettin' something else (no-1911).
http://i91.photobucket.com/albums/k298/chewybaca67/Fire%20Arms/PB270025.jpg

This is my faorite 1911, believe it or not. It's just a plain jane Springfield WWII re-issue jobber. I like everything about it the way it is.
http://i91.photobucket.com/albums/k298/chewybaca67/Fire%20Arms/P6070018.jpg
Wish I took pics of my Old Kimber Eclipse.
Suppose I'll have to get another Kimber at some point, or a Wilson if I could ever afford it.

[OSSI]

http://i215.photobucket.com/albums/cc76/TASSIOSSI/guns/Springfield1911A1-1.jpg

:)

[MullahElRon]

http://www.picvault.info/images/537002833_OSSI%20thumbsup.gif

[Bogey]

KURT!!!!!

How long ago did you sneak in here?

Welcome my friend!

[TwoShot]

Damn good looking herd of 1911's here.
Next purchase it going to be a short barrel 1911 .45 something. I love the trigger on the 1911"s.

[fnfalman]

Not my favorite guns, but I do have a couple just for the hell of it.

http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f308/fnfalman/Guns/SpringfieldArmoryM1911A1.jpg
http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f308/fnfalman/Guns/SWM1911PDGunsite.jpg

[freakshow10mm]

Hey, FN! Nice to see you made it here.

[AdamN]

http://www.picvault.info/images/537002833_OSSI%20thumbsup.gif


Nice touch:wink5:

[Pitmaster]

I just picked this up Monday. 14 Wilson magazines, Galco OWB holster, double mag carrier, case and paperwork. I'll take a better picture when I get some time. Although I'm going to be busy for the next few weeks.

http://i31.photobucket.com/albums/c400/bdcbbq/Kimber-005-Res.jpg

[BIGGUNGOBOOM]

heres my two. first is my race gun 1911 that is out being worked on as we speak. getting the color changed and other various things "ill post pics when done"the second is my new Kimber Tactical Pro II 4inch

http://i255.photobucket.com/albums/hh130/biggungoboom/guns001.jpg

http://i255.photobucket.com/albums/hh130/biggungoboom/kimber003.jpg

[nitesite]

My SA 5" Mil-Spec with some internal tweaks. I thought I'd try to get a slightly different camera perspective.

http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y141/nitesite9/leftsidehigh4web.jpg

[trickyasafox]

http://i79.photobucket.com/albums/j128/trickyasafox/milspecrightside3.jpg

[BigSlick]

Just got word from a buddy of mine dat is a 10mm junkie.

Way worse than me

He's gonna shoot a few pics of some of the ones he has. Should have em to me this week

Some of da sweetest 10mm's I ever seen. He got one or two I never seen before too.

All I can say is get a towel, you gonna need it ta clean up all da drool.

[Spinnerblade]

Hard chrome Gold Cup, stainless LW Commander, LW Officers ACP.
Patrick
http://i67.photobucket.com/albums/h290/spinnerx/Commanderpics003.jpg?t=1210566109

[ch139]

My two Colts...

Mk IV Series 80 Gold Cup National Match and a Colt Gunsite Pistol.

http://photos.templarfirearms.com/albums/userpics/10001/normal_GC.01.JPG

http://photos.templarfirearms.com/albums/userpics/10001/normal_IMG_6261.JPG

[grendelbane]

Here is my Delta Elite. Some days it is a 10mm. Othertimes it is a .40 S&W. In this picture, it is a 357 SIG. Some times I load my 357 SIGs to 10mm length, and call it a 357 Grendelbane!

http://i294.photobucket.com/albums/mm90/grendelbane6/deltaelite357sig.jpg

It has also been a 9x19, but don't tell any one, because that is supposed to be unpossible.

[grendelbane]

Here are a couple of home builds. The parkerized frame is a Doublestar frame with a genuine Colt slide, in .45 ACP. Sort of an economy build. The two-tone is a 9x23mm Winchester, again with genuine Colt slide, (wasn't E-Bay wonderful at one time?), though some times it is also a .38 Super, and some times a 9x19.

http://i294.photobucket.com/albums/mm90/grendelbane6/45and9x23.jpg

I am considering a long slide for my next project. Some times these projects move slowly, however.

[cohutt]

Nice collection there Grendelbane.

welcome.

[grendelbane]

Might as well show this one, too. The frame still carries the original Colt blue, but the slide was so worn and blotched that I used it for an experiment in rust bluing. This one didn't want to co-operate, but it was still a big improvement over what I had before. I understand that Sprinfield Armory did actually rust blue some M1911s.

http://i294.photobucket.com/albums/mm90/grendelbane6/38superrustbluegammaJPG.jpg

Another .38 Super slide I tried to rust blue turned out much better. Variation in steel is the only reason I can come up with, as I was using Pilkington's blue on both of them, and every other condition was identical. Now if I can just find an old worn shotgun to practice my rust bluing techniques on. That would be a better subject, I think.

[jawjaboy]

http://i56.photobucket.com/albums/g194/jawjaboy/IMG_0008.jpg

http://i56.photobucket.com/albums/g194/jawjaboy/IMG_0125-1.jpg

[MullahElRon]

http://i36.tinypic.com/2q39chh.jpg

[CaptToyota]

http://www.glockpost.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=464&d=1230092906

http://www.glockpost.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=465&d=1230092957

Both are 38 Supers, Nowlin ramped barrels, SV Hi-Cap and COLT single stack.

[mbradst]

This is my first 1911, a Para LTC with the lightweight alloy frame. I shoot this pistol better than any other. The grips are the same as seen in NiteSites's post above.
http://www.glockpost.com/forums/picture.php?albumid=65&pictureid=340

[BIGGUNGOBOOM]

thats nice MB

[mbradst]

thats nice MB

Thanks BGGB, those grips were a gift form Nitesite, he's not such a bad guy, or a retard.

[rudyc]

Got this one from my Godfather. It is an Ithaca and was his carry gun.


http://i252.photobucket.com/albums/hh20/rudycu/DSCN6571.jpg



http://i252.photobucket.com/albums/hh20/rudycu/DSCN6576.jpg

rudyc

[jawjaboy]

:thumbsup: Nice. Thanks for sharing Rudy.

[MullahElRon]

Indeedly. :supergrin:

[chewy]

That certainly is an un-replacable peice!

[Big Wes]

Here's mine, a Springfield Light Weight with alloy frame and Birdseye Maple Grips and it has a real nice smooth as silk trigger job to boot. :patriot:

http://www.glockpost.com/forums/picture.php?albumid=89&pictureid=522

[BigSlick]

Man Rudy,

That's just beautiful, brings a tear to my good eye.

Wes,

Where ya get da maple grips ? Expensive ?

They look real nice, I been likin maple since way back on a nice blued gun

[Big Wes]

Slick,

I got those grips at a local gun show many years ago. I believe I paid around $45 - $50.00 for them at the time, wasn't to bad a price or else I wouldn't have bought them.

I'm a little tight with my $$$$ :)

[blueline541]

http://www.glockpost.com/forums/picture.php?albumid=118&pictureid=746


The dark one is an overly oily matching 1943 Colt 1911 and the overly bright one is a WWII Ithaca that someone plated many years ago.

[Mickstix]

Here's my only 1911 at the moment.. I love polished guns, but darn if they arent a pain in the butt to keep clean!! :o This ones actually Nickel plated..

http://home.comcast.net/~mickstix/my1911_1.jpg

[ddcarter3]

These are mine!
http://www.glockpost.com/forums/picture.php?albumid=125&pictureid=763
(http://www.glockpost.com/forums/picture.php?albumid=125&pictureid=763)

[GLShooter]

This is a little 9 MM steel gun I built many years ago that I am going to try out in some of the local shoots. Clark ramped barrel, Essex frame that has been lightened and an unknown slide that has been reduced considerably in weight. Comp is a three port aluminum set up. The scope mount is a custom done up by my 'smith for our race guns back in the early 90's.

http://i269.photobucket.com/albums/jj42/GLShooter/STEEL%20CHALLENGE%20PISTOL/DSC01475.jpg

http://i269.photobucket.com/albums/jj42/GLShooter/STEEL%20CHALLENGE%20PISTOL/DSC01471.jpg

Greg

[pkr hd]

http://www.glockpost.com/forums/picture.php?albumid=138&pictureid=850

[ButchG17]

I have three Colt's.

An old commercial Government Model from 1969 (with a few alterations):
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/0603/ButchG17/Colt/Seecampconv-r.jpg


An older, well used, National Match from 1957.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/0603/ButchG17/Colt/ColtNM.jpg


And an elderly military 1911 of 1918 vintage that was apparently rebuilt for WWII use.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/0603/ButchG17/Colt/Colt1911002.jpg

[Blaster]

Ed Brown fresh from the factory.

http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c286/Blaster3094/EB.jpg

My 2010 Dan Wesson that I picked up while waiting for the Brown. It has a short trigger now and an arched mainspring housing.

http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c286/Blaster3094/Valor7.jpg

[chewy]

Dayum, them look slick!

[GLShooter]

Here is an Old School Comp Gun I got in 1982. Built by John Nowlin on a Commander frame using the Watson Comp set up that John and Dick worked up together,. This was the first one ever done on a Commander and was Metalloyed by Tim Tierney. It was the last pistol that Tim did prior to moving Metalloy to Arkansas AFAIK It was my first comp gun and it became an addiction after that!!:yikes2:
http://i269.photobucket.com/albums/jj42/GLShooter/PISTOL%20PICS/Nowlin451.jpg

http://i269.photobucket.com/albums/jj42/GLShooter/PISTOL%20PICS/Nwlin452.jpg

http://i269.photobucket.com/albums/jj42/GLShooter/PISTOL%20PICS/Nowloin45Comp.jpg

Greg

[jawjaboy]

I'd shore like ta pop dat rascal Greg. Nice.

[GLShooter]

They are a dream to shoot. Such a change from a basic pistol. All the hand fitting and tuning makes it almost like a magic wand when you are shooting up to speed. But as nice as it is the newer ones shoot even better!!

Greg

[GLShooter]

This is a Gold Cup that I have worked over during the past year. It shot it's first PPC match today and did very well. I will redo the trigger as it just seems a bit to heavy during the match. It will also be getting mounted up in a Ransom Rest as I shot a full IPSC Major load today and PPC is not the place for that kind of power. I think I can find a target level load that will work with some spring trading.

It has a Barsto barrel that I won at a USPSA Nationals several years ago, an Ed Brown beaver tail and a McCormick hammer/sear set.

http://i269.photobucket.com/albums/jj42/GLShooter/GOLD%20CUP/DSC02393.jpg


http://i269.photobucket.com/albums/jj42/GLShooter/GOLD%20CUP/DSC02397.jpg


Greg

[jawjaboy]

:dontgetit: Mitee purdy. Mm mm mm.

[BigSlick]

Beautiful pics GL :thumbsup:

That's the kind of piece a lot of outfits selling 1911's want you to think you're buying. Back in the 80's, most of the now pedigreed smiths or shops weren't nearly as widely known.

Back then, a nice full house custom from Ross Carter, Ed Brown or Bill Laughridge (and others) would get you a work of art that functioned flawlessly.

There are still some good ones out there, but for every good one, there seems to be 10 wannabes

Beautiful guns - I especially like the Commander

[R.Ph. 380]

Here's mine, Detonics Combat Master

974

[BigSlick]

Sweet :thumbsup:

I like the Combat Masters all the way around

[grendelbane]

Here is my first, bought back in the disco days. Unfortunately, the original stocks got destroyed in a horrible accident. So, I thought she deserved new shoes. The water buffalo bone stocks were dyed last night with regular Rit dye. There have been a couple of other changes over the years, trigger and mainspring housing and sights. I wish every thing from my youth had survived in this condition, however.


http://i294.photobucket.com/albums/mm90/grendelbane6/purplegc.jpg

[ramon]

It's been a while since I've posted here and I thought I'd post an image of
a 1911 Series 70 pistol and slide set for your consideration.

Enjoy....

[craig110]

It's been a while since I've posted here and I thought I'd post an image of
a 1911 Series 70 pistol and slide set for your consideration.

Enjoy....

Nice! Thanks for posting that. What lengths are all those barrels?

[ramon]

Nice! Thanks for posting that. What lengths are all those barrels?


The barrel lengths are 8", 6", 5", and 4.5" lengths. All are Bar-sto barrels.
All the other parts are fitted Gold Cup. All work was done by Jim Hoag.

This very pistol appears in George Nonte's Combat Handguns edited by Ed Ezell.

Ramon

[BigSlick]

8" barrel on a Gold Cup - very nice :thumbsup:

I'd have a hard time shooting anything else for a long while if I had a setup like that.

Jim Hoag is among the best of the best where 1911 work is concerned, true craftsmanship and old school standards of fit and finish on everything I've seen that passed thru his hands.

Incredible setup all the way Ramon :cool:

[ramon]

8" barrel on a Gold Cup - very nice :thumbsup:

Jim Hoag is among the best of the best where 1911 work is concerned, true craftsmanship and old school standards of fit and finish on everything I've seen that passed thru his hands.

Incredible setup all the way Ramon :cool:


I purchased a .22 Colt conversion slide and barrel. Jim hand fitted it to this pistol and it's a fun thing to shoot. That slide is not displayed in the image I've posted here.

As an aside, This work was done by Jim Hoag in the late 70's. Irv Stowe the founder of Bar-sto broke so many broaches in making this barrel for Jim, that he swore he'd never make another. As far as I know, I don't think another was ever made after this particular speciman.

For me, this is a legacy pistol that will remain in my family for as long as I can possibly arrange. The attached picture shows the next generation shooter in my family, my son is pictured here about 15 years ago at a local range. On the shooting bench top is this pistol. My Son calls it his "birth right." That it is...

This is my family's future in the shooting game after I'm gone.

Ramon

[BigSlick]

I like the whole idea of the gun being a legacy.

I've passed on a few over the years and never regretted it.

Last specimen I saw Hoag worked on was a really custom Commander. I wanted it, but couldn't swing it financially as $1400 was a gold mine worth of cash to me then (still is).

Hand fitted all the way thru, not too tight, but zero slop in it if that makes any sense. Flat top slide with custom controls made just for that gun.

Sweet in every respect. The fellow who bought it passed away back in the late 80's and nobody I know knows what happened to the gun.

[ramon]

I should add that its been my distinct privilege to have know, Jim Hoag for over 30 years. During that time he's worked on many of my pistols and BAR NONE his craftmanship is superior.

He's from a time when Armand Swenson was in his heyday, and craftmanship was the real deal.

He is a sweet, sweet man. The genuine deal.

Ramon

[BigSlick]

Ross Carter was the same way.

I knew Ross for many years. After the fire, things were never the same.

Hoag, Carter and Bill Laughridge in my opinion are head and shoulders above others and most if not all pedigreed 'smiths working today.

Alex Hamilton is about the best there is nowadays, but, getting one of his (true custom) guns is almost impossible.

The Les Baer, Wilson Combat, NightHawk and Ed Brown stuff is nice, just not in the same arena.

Old school craftsmanship is all but gone

[GLShooter]

A 45 I shoot in IPSC, PPC and BE. Started out as a 38 Super then 38 Special and finally a 45. Built by Richard Curtis of El Reno, Oklahoma in the style of Dick Shokey.

http://i269.photobucket.com/albums/jj42/GLShooter/PISTOL%20PICS/45CurtisBullseye1.jpg

Greg

[ET]

Just joined here & wanted to post our new Christmas presents. My Springfield Range Officer & my wife's 9mm pt1911. (she just couldn't stand the thought of not having her own 1911)

http://i1211.photobucket.com/albums/cc435/ET-1/11-10-11039-1.jpg

[blueline541]

Wow. Santa was good to the ET household. Nice pistols.

[BoltNut]

Dang, ET (welcome) you found a GREAT woman!