So I just bought a new gun. A slightly used Springfield M1911A1 in 9mm. 4 digit serial number with no prefix. Probably about a dozen years old. For $600.
The previous owner had installed big adjustable sights which I am having removed and replaced with high visibility fixed sights. Other than that I intend to leave it pretty much alone.
I've accumulated quite a many guns over the years, and the only things really remaining on my list (at a very low priority) were a Springfield Armory
M1911 platform pistol in both .45 ACP and 9mm. I planned to leave any such guns pretty stock other than getting decent sights installed and maybe a trigger job if needed.
I shoot a little bit in both USPSA and IDPA, usually in Production and SSP classes (my issue gun at the PD was a Sig for years and now we recently converted to Glock 22s). If circumstances permit, I try to shoot other guns in classifier matches and sometimes in regular monthly club matches, depending.
(My other M1911 pattern pistols are a Colt Combat Commander that I bought in 1978 (was my duty gun as a cop for 6-1/2 years at the beginning of my career ) and a Remington Rand GI surplus gun that I bought in 1990.
The Remington Rand was a re-import from South Korea or the Phillippines. The barrel was shot out, the slide and frame were pitted, the grip screws were rusted tight into the bushings, the wooden grips were rotted and somebody had tried to adjust the tiny GI sights with a hammer.
My intent was to rebuild the gun into a rack grade M1911A1 just like I had in the MPs. My local gunsmith bead blasted and parkerized the frame, replaced internal parts as necessary, installed a new stainless steel barrel (that he had lying around the shop), replaced the tiny GI sights with new tiny GI sights that weren't all beat up, and did a trigger job to 5-1/2 lbs. It turned out really nice. I shot it in an IDPA classifier match a few years ago, but the tiny sights and my old eyes were a bad combination. I shot good but had to slow down a quite a bit because the damn sights were so small)
The previous owner had installed big adjustable sights which I am having removed and replaced with high visibility fixed sights. Other than that I intend to leave it pretty much alone.
I've accumulated quite a many guns over the years, and the only things really remaining on my list (at a very low priority) were a Springfield Armory
M1911 platform pistol in both .45 ACP and 9mm. I planned to leave any such guns pretty stock other than getting decent sights installed and maybe a trigger job if needed.
I shoot a little bit in both USPSA and IDPA, usually in Production and SSP classes (my issue gun at the PD was a Sig for years and now we recently converted to Glock 22s). If circumstances permit, I try to shoot other guns in classifier matches and sometimes in regular monthly club matches, depending.
(My other M1911 pattern pistols are a Colt Combat Commander that I bought in 1978 (was my duty gun as a cop for 6-1/2 years at the beginning of my career ) and a Remington Rand GI surplus gun that I bought in 1990.
The Remington Rand was a re-import from South Korea or the Phillippines. The barrel was shot out, the slide and frame were pitted, the grip screws were rusted tight into the bushings, the wooden grips were rotted and somebody had tried to adjust the tiny GI sights with a hammer.
My intent was to rebuild the gun into a rack grade M1911A1 just like I had in the MPs. My local gunsmith bead blasted and parkerized the frame, replaced internal parts as necessary, installed a new stainless steel barrel (that he had lying around the shop), replaced the tiny GI sights with new tiny GI sights that weren't all beat up, and did a trigger job to 5-1/2 lbs. It turned out really nice. I shot it in an IDPA classifier match a few years ago, but the tiny sights and my old eyes were a bad combination. I shot good but had to slow down a quite a bit because the damn sights were so small)
