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As I wait for my new Yost-Bonitz gun, I figured I’d show off my first Yost shooter, a 10mm that got dubbed the “Retro-Rocket.”





The specs:

Fit frame & slide
Fit ramped Schuemann Ultimatch AET barrel
Hand filed magazine well bevel
Colt 80 series grip safety
Novak front sight, installed
Yost-Bonitz rear sight, installed
Crown barrel, 11deg, .065” rad.
Colt hammer, bob & high cut
Trigger job, EGW hard sear, BCP long trigger
EGW square f/p stop, fit
Cut plug tunnel for reverse plug
Briley reverse plug, fit, with FLGR flush fit
Flatten slide sides
Aftec extractor, polish and tune
Ed Brown plain MSH, serrated at 30lpi
Restake P-tube and 4 stock bushings
Complete dehorning
Cosmetic cleanup on frame & slide
Satin matte hard chrome finish

I’ve had the peculiar habit of getting my 1911s progressively less and less “custom” looking on the outside, and this was a big step in that direction. The cosmetics are clean as a whistle, especially considering that while it wasn’t cheap, it wasn’t one of those unlimited-budget “Signature Grade/Full-House” type jobs either. Slide-to-frame fit is nice and snug, but smooth. Barrel fit is impeccable. The trigger is a nice 4lbs.

Functionally, this thing may be in a class of one when it comes to 10mm guns. With its Schuemann AET barrel, this thing is practically laser-guided. Ted shot it next to a full-house job with another brand of excellent match barrel, and this was the CLEAR winner in accuracy. I have a friend who shoots bullseye pistol, and in his hands this gun equals or beats his Jim Clark Sr.-built Longslide… but with the bullets going twice as fast!

Bottom line, when a gun blows away most other folks’ “accuracy guarantee” guns, when shooting random factory ammo, you are probably on to something.

Ted apparently swore at rather than swore by the AFTEC extractor that I specified, but the gun just runs and runs and runs. I tried to see how filthy I could let it get before something going wrong, but I just gave up after all the innards were full of thick black goo and it still didn’t care. Also, it started to smell pretty bad.

People ask about the bull barrel’s effect on recoil. It is hard to say how much of how the gun feels is due to that, and how much is due to other stuff Ted did. The recoil isn’t really reduced, so much as softened up around the edges a little. It is certainly the most pleasant-to-shoot 10mm I’ve tried.

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Sean Smith
"Hey don't worry, I can handle it. I took something. I can see things no one else can see. Why are you dressed like that?" -Jack Burton, Big Trouble in Little China

Sean,

Does you gun have a fluted barrel?

Mike

Sean,

Didn't Ted use one of those Schuemann barrels in the 10mm he built for himself?

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Wayne Miller

No, I wanted all the weight.
I don't know what barrel Ted used for his Delta. I do know that my AET barrel was the first one he'd played with. Wouldn't surprise me if he liked it based on the results he got with my gun, though. That said, the AET is a fairly expensive way to shave maybe 1/2" off your groups compared to another match barrel... we are talking a $240 retail barrel here.

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Sean Smith
"Hey don't worry, I can handle it. I took something. I can see things no one else can see. Why are you dressed like that?" -Jack Burton, Big Trouble in Little China