Post by CXM on Jul 12, 2018 8:57:51 GMT -5
Strictly speaking, this isn't a 1911 and may not fit here... but I'm posting it anyway... it is a pistol I heave wanted for a long time and was never willing to spend the money to get one... finally I decided they were not getting any cheaper... so I thought I'd go for one...
I'm not a very patient person... I won this gun in an Auction and it took the auction house a while to ship... Still, I shouldn't complain... Rock Island Auctions had sold over 10,000 guns in the auction in which I got this 1905... but as I said I'm not very patient... same as with Christmas... The worst part was watching the UPS site as the package made it's way across the country for delivery...
Here is the 1905
And the other side:
If the weather holds I'll have some more tomorrow.
Thursday 12 July-
Well, the weather is holding... that is to say not raining but I did get a lot of shadows... most of which I was able to improve in Photoshop. So here goes with more pics...
First we have the left side full view... you can see the pistol still has a good bit of original blue left.
Second we have the rear of the right side of the slide... showing the rampant colt in a circle which Colt's only used a few years. On the 1905 all the guns were made with circled colt. You do find examples without the colt... which indicates the slide is a replacement, not an original...
You can see the remaining case hardening on the hammer.
Also visible is the 'fire blue' on the slide release.
Here is another view of the left side showing roll marks and patients
The next shot is of the right side of the pistol. The remaining 'fire bluing' on the extractor is visable.
The Colt 45 AC pistols 1905, 1907 and 1909 all used a locking tab at the front of the slide to hold it on... this was the weak point of the whole design and you often find these guns with cracks at the grip end of that tab. This is usually the result of shooting 230gr 45ACP ammo in the guns rather than the lighter 45AC Rimless loads.
Next we have a right side view of the slide showing roll marks
The walnut grips are attached with two screws on each side screwed into bushings like the 1911, though the 1905 screws and bushings are much smaller than are found on the 1911.
Here is the right grip... the wood has darkened a good bit... you can see some of the original Colt 'fire blue' left on the trigger.
Hopefully these pics will be of interest...
V/r
I'm not a very patient person... I won this gun in an Auction and it took the auction house a while to ship... Still, I shouldn't complain... Rock Island Auctions had sold over 10,000 guns in the auction in which I got this 1905... but as I said I'm not very patient... same as with Christmas... The worst part was watching the UPS site as the package made it's way across the country for delivery...
Here is the 1905
And the other side:
If the weather holds I'll have some more tomorrow.
Thursday 12 July-
Well, the weather is holding... that is to say not raining but I did get a lot of shadows... most of which I was able to improve in Photoshop. So here goes with more pics...
First we have the left side full view... you can see the pistol still has a good bit of original blue left.
Second we have the rear of the right side of the slide... showing the rampant colt in a circle which Colt's only used a few years. On the 1905 all the guns were made with circled colt. You do find examples without the colt... which indicates the slide is a replacement, not an original...
You can see the remaining case hardening on the hammer.
Also visible is the 'fire blue' on the slide release.
Here is another view of the left side showing roll marks and patients
The next shot is of the right side of the pistol. The remaining 'fire bluing' on the extractor is visable.
The Colt 45 AC pistols 1905, 1907 and 1909 all used a locking tab at the front of the slide to hold it on... this was the weak point of the whole design and you often find these guns with cracks at the grip end of that tab. This is usually the result of shooting 230gr 45ACP ammo in the guns rather than the lighter 45AC Rimless loads.
Next we have a right side view of the slide showing roll marks
The walnut grips are attached with two screws on each side screwed into bushings like the 1911, though the 1905 screws and bushings are much smaller than are found on the 1911.
Here is the right grip... the wood has darkened a good bit... you can see some of the original Colt 'fire blue' left on the trigger.
Hopefully these pics will be of interest...
V/r