03 July 2025

Representative Sample

Wading into the CMP 1911 pond again...

The lifetime limit has been increased from one to four.

While I defend the idea of buying one for the provenance, I just can't justify four to myself.

This is where I start agreeing with some of the objections and evoke "mixmaster."

It's not a case where you can get one of each maker because the parts were scrambled several times since 1945.

I'm not in the two is one and one is none frame of mind with pistols I obtain for the having, not the using.

But every one of the three I have left in my limit is one more available to someone who wants that single example.

If I were to get another .45 Gov't Model, I'd get a blue one.

I still need me a 10mm example.

PS: Someone checked the market and $1,700 is about where the $1,200 condition guns are trading.

1 comment:

  1. Dad's unit in Korea, right after the cease fire, was given basically a pallet-load of 1911A1s. The unit armorer, a Marine who transferred to the Air Force, took them all apart and rebuilt many of them. He did so well my dad's squadron's pistol scores were all way above the norm. Same armorer did the same with the guns on the aircraft.

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