Post by mountainoracle on Jun 2, 2017 17:20:28 GMT -5
This Colt was my grandfathers. He told me may stories about this colt before he died in '47. He was a WW I vet and when he got back home he went to work as a "Railroad Dick" and the M1911 was his constant companion on the job. It is believed in his jobs capacity he had to use it a few times. After grand dad died in 1948, grand ma took the gun and hid it in the barn. Grand Ma died and the firearm was lost to the family as no one knew where she hid it.
The barn fell in disrepair and was left to rot away in the early '60s and in '75 my mother wanted the barn gone; so I got volunteered to tear down what was left of the barn and then clean up the whole mess. While tearing the barn down I found the M1911 submerged in a barrel that was partly filled with water and I have no idea how many years it lived under water, I also found a metal ammo can with 12 fully loaded magazines and some loose ammo under some floor boards in another area of the barn.
The 1911 was rusted closed and nothing would move...I soaked it in hydraulic fluid, kerosene, gasoline, penetrating oil, and any thing else that was recommend to me over a 2 year time frame. I finally got the gun apart and cleaned up, added a few new parts and had operating correctly. I took it out with one of magazines grand dad had loaded and it breezed through the magazine without a hiccup.
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This model 1911 is my baby and it will never see another owner other than maybe my son or daughter
It a true testimonial to the 1911 design and thank you for sharing it here!
Ugly it's not; a veteran with a story it is 