Very nice I own four, none CMP, one Colt 1911 frame, with WWII slide arsenal rebuild my father ordered for $25 back in the 60's in Detroit from the American Rifleman magazine, M-1 carbines were $16 ea, and my dads friend Jim ordered two.
His .45 came in a box wrapped in brown paper via the mail, I know I opened the door fro the mailman who asked for my dad to come sign for it.
He kept it in a GI brown holster with spare mag pouch on a GI belt in his sock drawer.
He told me never to touch it, but I opened that drawer, and looked at what was sticking out of the holster many a time.
It is now in my safe with an original Remington Rand I got in Vegas, and an Ithaca i don't know where I got.
But my prize possession is a 1915 Colt 1911 , I got in trade at the Indy 1500 in the mid 90's. mint condition
It went from Springfield Mass, to Hampers Ferry VA, to Ft. Bliss TX in 1916.
The rest is history on those old Colts.
As a young Military Policeman in training at Ft. Mc Clellan Al, I went through an underground warehouse with cells upon cells containing .45 autos in racks as far as the eye could see on both sides of the underground two lane road.
During my twenty one year career in the US Army Military Police Corps I was issued many a GI .45 mostly Remington Rands and an Ithaca, every now and then, I never saw a Colt/Singer/US Switch and Signal, ever in twenty one years. When we switched to the Beretta 9mm's I still asked for and carried, a GI issue .45 through the Gulf War.
Towards the end of my career I carried my (unofficial) Remington Rand or Ithaca when we went to the field.
My if mine could only talk, Pancho Villa - 1st Gulf War, where did they serve?
His .45 came in a box wrapped in brown paper via the mail, I know I opened the door fro the mailman who asked for my dad to come sign for it.
He kept it in a GI brown holster with spare mag pouch on a GI belt in his sock drawer.
He told me never to touch it, but I opened that drawer, and looked at what was sticking out of the holster many a time.
It is now in my safe with an original Remington Rand I got in Vegas, and an Ithaca i don't know where I got.
But my prize possession is a 1915 Colt 1911 , I got in trade at the Indy 1500 in the mid 90's. mint condition
It went from Springfield Mass, to Hampers Ferry VA, to Ft. Bliss TX in 1916.
The rest is history on those old Colts.
As a young Military Policeman in training at Ft. Mc Clellan Al, I went through an underground warehouse with cells upon cells containing .45 autos in racks as far as the eye could see on both sides of the underground two lane road.
During my twenty one year career in the US Army Military Police Corps I was issued many a GI .45 mostly Remington Rands and an Ithaca, every now and then, I never saw a Colt/Singer/US Switch and Signal, ever in twenty one years. When we switched to the Beretta 9mm's I still asked for and carried, a GI issue .45 through the Gulf War.
Towards the end of my career I carried my (unofficial) Remington Rand or Ithaca when we went to the field.
My if mine could only talk, Pancho Villa - 1st Gulf War, where did they serve?
