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Message: <blockquote data-quote="HiredHand" data-source="post: 3861100" data-attributes="member: 2469">I’m sharing this post from WilsonCobatRep from an old thread on Norinco 1911s.  “There was a time in this country in the mid 1980's where custom pistolsmiths were constantly in search of quality base guns to build custom guns on. Colt had turned to the 80 series design which was less than perfect from a custom gun building perspective and Springfields were in high demand. Norinco came on the market at a very attractive price and had geometrically "sound" slides and frames-basically reverse engineered, fully hardened USGI guns with some metric engineering thrown in for fun. Most of the small parts were worse than petrified dog crap but since we were tossing them it didn't matter. The slides and frames were good enough to build basic guns on. They were cosmetically poor but at a time when base guns were hard to come by we built some decent guns on them and filled the demand at the time for a reasonably priced base. They are not magic guns of magic metal tempered in Unicorn blood. They are fully hardened to high rockwell hardness so once tightened up they stay good and tight for a long time.Most of the barrels need to be replaced. The lugs easily flange/deform.”[URL unfurl="true"]https://www.1911forum.com/threads/wilson-norinco.436655/[/URL]</blockquote>