Please wander over to the Coal Creek Armory site for a look at a very nice 1911. It's a gift, on its way to combat-wounded veteran Captain Mark Brogan USA.
CCA seems to build a lot of custom 1911s, said to possess extreme accuracy and dependability. This one is also an eye treat because of what it lacks -- no duded-up two-tone finish, no ninja rails, no lasers, no glass, no extraneous buttons and levers. Someone in Knoxville understands what a pistol is for.
The armory has taken it on itself to demonstrate respect for the young men and women we send off to far and ugly places, as we all should. Never mind that the political masters often order them into foolish adventures; that's an entirely separate issue.
H/T Tam.
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Yup. I'm not much into embellishment for embellishment's sake...
http://booksbikesboomsticks.blogspot.com/2011/02/gratuitous-gun-pr0n-52-before-and-after.html
Very nice, but about those walnut grip panels you removed:
If you haven't converted them to kindling or matching trivets or something like that, there's this guy I know who...
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Those are Ahrend's cordia wood stocks.
I got them from fellow former TFL staffer (and fine 1911 collector) Son Tao, who came to this country as a little boy, a refugee from the awfulness of our last land war in Asia, and quit his jillion-dollar nukyular physicist job after 9/11 to go back into the Rangers as an E-5.
They've kinda got sentimental value. :)
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