High Mileage rebuild.......Reid

This is a personal gun of mine. It was a main practice gun of mine back when I used to be a good shooter and I was preparing for the 2017 World Shoot. It was also my main dryfire gun for several years. It was beat up and abused, and it served its purpose quite well. I have documented 112,000 rounds on the gun. The slide did crack at the ejection port, and so it was time to either build an entirely new gun and retire it, or rebuild it. I decided to just put a new top end on the gun, weld up the frame rails and fit a new top end. We will see how this frame gets along, hopefully another 100k.

And yes, there are plenty of flaws in this one, maybe my worst paint job ever. But thats okay, its going in a holster and gonna get beat up some more, so I'm not too worried about it.





A bit of a swirl patter on the flats kind of breaks up the monotony.



First time putting the logo on the outside of the slide. On a non Colt build, I think it works well.





Here you can see the repair for the front strap on my magwell. It was extremely beat up and deformed. So hopefully this fixes it.