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>>33648907
GOD DAMN IT!!!

>>33648890
OP can't inb4

faggot

What the fuck is 'more contemporary'?

Are you some kind of mouthbreathing retard who wants to change the grips, or are we going to something more drastic?

Most likely, anything you want to do is a waste of time and money and will make you appear to be a fool to everyone, and deep down, yourself, as well as an affront to the original weapon and tasteful mods.

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>>33648890
>on /k/
>who would be mad if i fucked up a gun
>posts picture of rare pistol
>instead of just selling it/ buying another gun to fuck up

It's your piece of history to fuck up, faggot

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>>33648940
grip safety, hammer, trigger, possibly new match barrel with compensator. Most modifications will require filing and actual work more than unscrewing a couple grip screws and saying "we oper8er now."

I mainly want people to look at it and say: "wow, OP really is a fag."

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>>33648969
I have 0 intention on selling this thing. Now if someone came at me with a 9000 dollar or more price point i'd reconsider, but that's not happening. Realistically, I'd be lucky to snag a grand or two for it if my objective was to make a buck or two.

>>33648890
>A1 slide
>pre-A1 frame

Off to a good start

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Does anyone here have any experience hand fitting 1911's? Smithing file kit suggestions? I've watched a few youtube videos on barrel fitment. seems complicated, but I trust myself enough.

>>33648997
we're already saying that about you

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>>33649078
Yeah, but you guys don't mean it as much as you will once i really dick this thing up.

>>33649036
you could make some money on it by selling it, or keep it as it is and spend under $1000 on another 1911 without dropping the value of your current one

>>33649097
My guy, if your objective is really to trigger /k/, just buy '44 shitty Izzy mosin to fuck around with.
There's not a lot of nice 1911s out there, just buy a new one/incomplete model to fuck with.

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>>33649097
I gotcha....its all about the (you)s.

>Abandon thread

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>>33649102
The current value of this one is probably somewhere slightly above or below a grand. The previous owner had done a shitty punch stippling job on the front strap and the frame was rusted to shit. I'm lucky it still fires. I was able to fix an issue with cycling due to maladjusted sear spring and i sanded and polished the frame to it's current state. In any case, this thing has been through hell and I can't imagine anyone picking it up for that much. Also, as I said before, i'm not trying to make money off of it.

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As far as simple furniture goes, does this look like a good choice for grips?

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It currently has an arched back strap, but I have smaller hands so I'm thinking this will do as a nice replacement.

>>33649164
Well, if some other faggot already fucked it up, there's nothing you can really do to change that. Go all out, make it operator as fuck

>ITT a 1911fag tries to show how much hes a faggot by modifying a gun only 1911fags care about

have someone cerakote it in MLP theme and drill holes in it somewhere that should do it.

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>>33649260
That's pretty much the plan. I actually like the fact that it's a historical piece and enjoy owning it. It will be 100 years old in a year or so.

>>33649329
Next time you have to write that in the OP. You'll get a lot less grief if we already know it's been fucked with. Agree with the skeleton trigger, and put on some different grips. not sure what you can do about the grip safety and hammer though.

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>>33649480
I posted the grip safety and hammer that i ordered for it earlier. My only concern is that i may need to have them fitted to the frame. If all else fails and i screw up the new components I'll just reassemble in current condition and live with it. I was more or less gauging how poorly the /k/ milsurp purists would react.

>>33649555
I was a little offended that you'd do it until you talked about it already being disfigured. Just take it all apart and compare...file things down where needed and make it work

>>33649658
It seems like a simple enough process. I was looking into bluing or blackening, but opinions and anecdotes are all over the map. Ultrablak-400 seems to do something incredible, but it requires steady high temps. Other processes seem to fade and wear poorly. A couple friends of mine have had issues with expedited rusting with blued revolvers in the past. Not sure where to go with that.

>>33648890
I remember you. You don't know me, but I have are a very particular set of skills; skills I have acquired over a very long career. Skills that make me a nightmare for people like you. If you don't modify that pistol, that’ll be the end of it. I will not look for you, I will not pursue you. But if you don’t, I will look for you, I will find you, and I will kill you.

While it's an M1911 already that has been fucked with, you aren't going to make it shoot any better with those "contemporary looking" parts. It also probably won't shoot anywhere as good as an off the shelf commercially made M1911 made yesterday.

>remember me.
Are you that one fag that got a bunch of guns from granddaddy or whatever and he had a giggle switch MP5 or something?
Am I just being retarded?

>>33650041
It hasn't been "fucked with," it's a piece of history. Go ahead and google national match pistols.

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>>33648969
>made in Brazil

Should've spent a few hundred more and gotten a Colt Gumment 70 Series.

>>33650128
bad trigger job, and a nasty punch stippling job on the front strap would qualify as being "fucked with" in my book, but whatevs.

>>33650128
I'm no 1911 expert, but those National Match 1911s were factory guns, weren't they?

This one appears to be a normal milspec 1911 that was turned into an imitation of a NM by some old-school bubba.

>>33650128
I know what a National Match M1911 is. The trigger is not original. The fucking stippling isn't original and you removed all of the finish. I also don't think the rear sight is original either.

>>33650041
I'm not really concerned with making it shoot "better", per say. I'm more concerned with making it more dependable while maintaining a clean aesthetic with a modern "twist." I was already able to fix an issue with the hammer following the slide during cycling by messing with sear spring tensions.

>>33650206
OP here. I ground the stippling off and removed pitted rust. the finish is something that can be restored. The trigger and rear sight are modifications made by previous owner. The fucking trigger on this thing was like something off of an airsoft pistol. It is literally plastic with a set screwed surface area that i removed a couple of days ago while messing with internals. As far as I can tell, the slide and frame are not a matching pair, but are both extremely old.

You wouldn't happen to have any experience with any of EPI's metal finishing products, would you?

>>33650069
I'm definitely a different fag. I'm the fag who's dad gave him a single 1911 that he couldn't identify. I do remember the thread you're talking about though.

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>>33650252
>the finish is something that can be restored.
But it won't be the original finish. You see the point? It's not a "piece of history" anymore, it's a "piece of history that someone fucked with." No collector or anyone with brains and money wants the latter.

I don't really understand why anybody is posting in this thread

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>>33650139
IIRC the slide and frame were forged in brazil. Everything else is american made and assembled

>>33648890

It says "United States Property" right on the gun. How about you return it to Uncle Sam instead of being a thief? You communist.

>>33650288
You don't get it. I'm not trying to restore this thing. I'm not trying to sell it or appraise it's value. I've already done enough research to know that I wouldn't get much if I changed my mind someday. The "modifications" I made to the gun were improvements and restorations to the previous owner's molestation of this thing. For all you and i know, the finish this thing had when I received it may not have been the original either. The gun was close to worthless in the condition I received it in and nothing I do to it could possibly lessen it's value outside of dropping it into a foundry. It will continue to be a "piece of history" so long as the slide and frame remain some semblance of their original form. All original components will be stored somewhere safe in the event that I decide to return this thing to the shit state i received it in.

I was thinking of removing both sights altogether and replacing them with a vortex red dot at some point though. That would require grinding or un-swetting the front site off though... :/ so many options.

>>33650288
Not OP, but I'm pretty sure he was agreeing with you, he said earlier in the thread that its value was already ruined by the PO's mods.

Personally I'd avoid tacticooling this gun and either restore it to WW1 style or to how it would've been when first converted into a match gun.

>>33650252
>the finish is something that can be restored
you fucked up

>>33650301
Would you say those bushing comps do much? how tight are they? I'm considering one, but wasn't sure if it was actually functional.

>>33650326
This. OP, you are in possession of stolen US military property. Return that pistol to your nearest US military or national guard armory as soon as possible or I will report you to the authorities.

>>33650502
I prefer a gun that doesn't look like someone found it buried in the sands of cocoa beach, original finish or not.

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>>33650524
please direct me to nearest mammory

>>33650139
Forgive my autism, but according to the serial number that would have been one of the American made units, back when non-NM serials were made in Brazil. Now they are all made in USA.

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>>33650513
https://www.efkfiredragon.com/1911-government-style-bushing-replacement-compensators.html

I pulled mine off because it was a bitch to clean. you can't use the normal tools to pull it off.

Other than that, I felt like I had a little better accuracy with the little extra weight on the front

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Just dont our 1911 is 101 years old now just preserve it and shoot the fuck out of it.
Im waiting for the frame to crack on it THEN ill do awful things with the parts kit....its comforting to know the barrel is almost shot out but the frame is fine considering how low pressure .45acp is.

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>>33648890
Just turn it into my pic. Can't get anymore amazing than that.

>>33650570

'NM' prefix on the serial means <50% of the gun was made in Brazil and then assembled in the US, with the "Geneseo, IL" rollmark on the frame. Conversely "N" prefix serials means >50% was made and/or assembled in Brazil. Currently all SA 1911s, in one form or another, are at least forged in Brazil. While IMBEL has good quality control over their machining it's a bit disheartening to see a historic gun manufacturer from America outsource their 1911s.

>>33649164
You should of said that from the get go.

>>33648890
Not sure what all these cunts are so triggered about. The gun is already modified and in shit condition to boot.

faggot.

I wouldn't risk shooting a USGI 1911. while yes, it's been refinished, A lot of guys had their war trophies brought home and chromed/nickle plated. That is part of the history of it now and it would be a shame to undo it when you can get a cheap, fucking around 1911 that won't crack and turn into a paper weight for $300 now

>>33648890

I once had a gun like that. Very old 1911 that someone had nickle plated and put pimp grips on. Otherwise it was unaltered though and I wondered something similar. At what point had this thing been fucked forever? Did I have any obligation to do no more harm or was that nickle plating the end and all bets were off at that point?

I eventually did nothing at all with it and traded it away. Moved on to a newer entry level gun to fuck up on my own.

>>33650326
>Owned by the government
>Re-appropriated to an individual
>He's the Communist
M8...

>>33650139
>should have spent more money for no discernable difference in quality or performance

>>33650191
The OP literally said the pervious owner tried to build a NM off of an older gun

>>33650458
I understand why everyone is butthurt, but it doesn't make them right. I mean sure I'd I had the cash and the skill I would be inclined to restore it or in the car sense, resto-mod it as best I could. But what you're doing just changes its history a bit. Gives it an interesting story. Would love to see it at Rock Island in 80 years

>>33650915
>it's a bit disheartening to see a historic gun manufacturer from America outsource their 1911s.

If they were a historic company sure, but the aren't. I don't cosnider it sad at all since the design was licensed all over the place anyway, like lots of military designs

>>33649057
Do you not see those trigger guard relief cuts?