Nice piece, I hope it returns exactly how you want it too.

 

Just thankful you have local skills to turn to, luckily for me, local gunsmithing is available which can handle full builds down to silly owner mistakes on a variety of guns - including the 1911 and the Hi-Power. So many people don't have access to the skills and it makes ownership - well, difficult at times. Know you'll be glad when it's back on the rack!

 

Great looking 1911! More info on the Build would be cool when you have time. and More pictures. Cheers!

 

The gun was built on Caspian slide/frames. The builder used a Kart barrel/bushing, Ed Brown safeties, Koenig hammer and I believe Ed Brown ignition parts. He cerakoted it in the colors as shown. It also has the series 80 internal parts which surprises everyone that has ever fired it. At the time many of the police departments in the area required 1911s authorized for duty to have those parts-obviously this limited the guns to Colt and Kimber with it's Schwartz (?) system. It has the Novak ghost rear with single tritium dot mated to a Trijicon front sight with bright orange ring around the tritium dot-I had these changed from the plain black sights it originally had.

The gun belonged to my best friend who bought it new. When he unexpectedly passed in 2012 his widow gifted it to me. I shoot this gun more accurately than any of the Les Baer or Novak custom builds I've owned.

I’ve posted about this gun before, it was built in 2004 by retired Army SF Sgt Major John "Andy" Anderson in Golden, CO. I haven't talked to Andy in a few years, I think he's still working on and building guns. He also co-wrote a book titled "The Green Beret in You", he gave me an autographed copy I sent to my older son during his first deployment. It made it's way around the FOB and now sits in the book case in his home office.
https://www.amazon.com/Living-Commitment-Family-Career-Sports/dp/B003NGPWQK

 

Man, that is a great pistol and a treasure to have in your collection. Cheers!

 

This paper plate is the last 3 mags I shot at the end of my range session, 20 yards using American Eagle 230gr fmj, target turning to face me for 4 seconds then turning away.

 

Nice, I would be happy with that shooting at 20 yards any day!

 

Well got the call today that my special 1911 was ready to be picked up. The 'smith has been very very busy but got to my pistol about a week sooner than planned. The thumb safeties now are very precise, take a bit more pressure than I expected to engage but not too hard. Disengagement is excellent.

More importantly they no longer can be engaged with the hammer down and will not snick off unintentionally any longer. This is the gun that if it ever came down to only having one this is it.