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<blockquote data-quote="mtngunr" data-source="post: 4339900" data-attributes="member: 46104"><p>Somebody's, or more likely several somebody's old Remington Rand bought for $25 and turned into a bullseye gun with stippled front of grip and some manner of blueing, brazed tall front sight, and later butcher job to dovetail of incorrect angles and depth for a likely replacement of target rear sight, trashing the slide.</p><p></p><p>The WWII and WWI slides were prone to cracking anyhow, so small loss for a shooter. I gave $150 for the gun, and dredged out an old NOS GI hard slide, of much improved modern steel/heat treat from the 1960s and left over from my building 1911s days, after stripping the frame blueing with vinegar.</p><p></p><p>The RR frame rails had been peened down for the original slide fitting, a GI slide would not even start, and so am spending several relaxing days smoking the rails, tapping on the slide, looking for high spot rubbing, and taking them down.</p><p></p><p>Once fit, the frame is off to be parkerized, the only other part which was blued past the slide was the GI safety for some reason, which will head out with the frame, all other parts are GI parkerized including a barrel showing almost no cycling. Not gonna mess with setting up again to parkerize for essentially only one frame.</p><p></p><p>When done, past the stippling, it will be a 1960s GI gun but with much tighter slide fit (if I want to leave it that way), and a lot of military match guns were put back into the system, and this won't be the only USGI 1911A1 out there with stippling. Figure I'll have maybe $350 in it when done.</p><p></p><p>PS- as for trashing the slide, there are import target sights available with oversized tenons which could have been fit, I believe the sights come from China (not on MY GI gun), plus would have been left with a really tall front of only target range utility on a slide which might likely crack with my hardball shooting. Will end up giving the gun away to some kid in the future, to save it from showing up anytime soon on some dealer listing of "RARE! VIETNAM ISSUE 1911!!!"...save me from those jerks.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p><a href="https://postimg.cc/NytbRqZK" target="_blank"><img src="https://i.postimg.cc/yNg547Py/20241007-160533.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="mtngunr, post: 4339900, member: 46104"] Somebody's, or more likely several somebody's old Remington Rand bought for $25 and turned into a bullseye gun with stippled front of grip and some manner of blueing, brazed tall front sight, and later butcher job to dovetail of incorrect angles and depth for a likely replacement of target rear sight, trashing the slide. The WWII and WWI slides were prone to cracking anyhow, so small loss for a shooter. I gave $150 for the gun, and dredged out an old NOS GI hard slide, of much improved modern steel/heat treat from the 1960s and left over from my building 1911s days, after stripping the frame blueing with vinegar. The RR frame rails had been peened down for the original slide fitting, a GI slide would not even start, and so am spending several relaxing days smoking the rails, tapping on the slide, looking for high spot rubbing, and taking them down. Once fit, the frame is off to be parkerized, the only other part which was blued past the slide was the GI safety for some reason, which will head out with the frame, all other parts are GI parkerized including a barrel showing almost no cycling. Not gonna mess with setting up again to parkerize for essentially only one frame. When done, past the stippling, it will be a 1960s GI gun but with much tighter slide fit (if I want to leave it that way), and a lot of military match guns were put back into the system, and this won't be the only USGI 1911A1 out there with stippling. Figure I'll have maybe $350 in it when done. PS- as for trashing the slide, there are import target sights available with oversized tenons which could have been fit, I believe the sights come from China (not on MY GI gun), plus would have been left with a really tall front of only target range utility on a slide which might likely crack with my hardball shooting. Will end up giving the gun away to some kid in the future, to save it from showing up anytime soon on some dealer listing of "RARE! VIETNAM ISSUE 1911!!!"...save me from those jerks. [URL='https://postimg.cc/NytbRqZK'][IMG]https://i.postimg.cc/yNg547Py/20241007-160533.jpg[/IMG][/URL] [/QUOTE]
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