Great video. What floors me is that Colt's had over 6,000 Gov. models just sitting around the factory? That's an awful lot of unsold inventory, isn't it? Was that normal for that era? I have my dad's 840XXX W.B. M1911A1 (shipped Nov. 42) and it has that same polishing of the bullet feed ramp on the top of the barrel as this one, sort of a bunch of striped lines machined on there. I couldn't find another example that looked like mine anywhere until I saw this video so thank you for that!
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In essence what Colt calls today as the series 80 firing system!!
Colt Navy: the gun that won the West
Colt M1911: the gun that won everything else
I have one of these picked it up from a big box store for 650 like 5 years back.mine is actually only about 100 off of yours
Great video. What floors me is that Colt's had over 6,000 Gov. models just sitting around the factory? That's an awful lot of unsold inventory, isn't it? Was that normal for that era? I have my dad's 840XXX W.B. M1911A1 (shipped Nov. 42) and it has that same polishing of the bullet feed ramp on the top of the barrel as this one, sort of a bunch of striped lines machined on there. I couldn't find another example that looked like mine anywhere until I saw this video so thank you for that!
ive got #8085xx its my fav pistol! 1942 no safety tho