Somewhat in the background of the shop schedule, I've been rebuilding a bowling pin gun I did in 1991 for a very good friend. He got out of shooting and needed some money, and, reluctantly for both of us, we struck a deal where I'd sell it for him, but it needed some freshening up first. "D" and I shared a lot, I mean a lot of good times shooting pins both at local matches and at Second Chance. We had/have a great bunch of pals although we are now somewhat scattered. All of us will surely burn in hell for the havoc we've wraught on countless pins!
The rebuild included a new barrel. It had cracked just behind the gooseneck of the compensator, so the old BarSto was replaced with a Kart. I made these comps from scratch, starting with a 2" diameter bar of pre-hardened 4140 about 6" long. The first baffle is a piece of 3/32 gage stock, silver-soldered into a slot EDM'd into the comp. The second baffle is screwed in using the spanner in the pic. Per Second Chance rules, pin guns had to be 64 ounces max, and no optics. Most people didn't really push the weight limit, and BoMars were pretty standard for sights.
Had the frame re-chromed by Tripp Research, everything else was reblued by YoBo except the barrel and recoil spring plug, which happened to be handy and crying out for a finish as I was packaging something else to send off for tungsten DLC. With the barrel and comp fitted together, you can see how DLC and bluing are pretty dang close in color. More on DLC coming up, but a guy name Kevin Reed has been writing about it on various forums and is a great source for info on this finish. Kevin is a new friend and I thank him for turning me on to, and facilitating my access to, DLC.
The second pic-- I saw the life-size poster in the theater the other day for new 007 movie Casino Royale. He's striding along all ruggedly handsome with a suppressed PPK and I thought, man, I know no Brit agent would use an American pistol, but..... he should! Anyway-- this and a few other things got me to thinking to thinking of this as the casino gun. All stainless Series 70 Colt, made-from-barstock sights ('cause, I mean, where the hell else am I gonna get stainless sights?), BarSto barrel per customer pref. Grips are some specials from VZ. More pics later, but you can see here how I have made the bottom of the MSH wider. In other words, where usually the locating rail is the widest part and the back of the MSH that shows is narrower, I've made the bottom 3/8 or so go out to that max width. The reason for this is that when I reduce the front-to-back dimension of a 1911 by removing metal from the back of the MSH, I get into that locating rail and its slot in the frame, and it can get a little unsightly. This mod kinda cleans that all up. More on both later, sorry to say it might be several days before I can post more pics though.
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