Here are some pics of one of the guns I'll be bringing to the SHOT Show... stop by the LTW booth and take a look at it. Previously mentioned in a post titled "Old pin gun gets a rebuild, and one for the casino" (
http://www.m-guns.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=4388).
One is old and one is new, both are Colts. The "casino gun" is a new stainless series 70. All aftermarket parts used are stainless, in fact everything about the thing is stainless except the grips (specials from VZ), springs, ignition parts (YoBo) and trigger. The sights-- stainless, made by me from 420 SS barstock. The BarSto barrel is stainless too, o'course. The finish-- tungsten Diamond Like Carbon..... very cool stuff.
The other gun is a late '70's Series 70 that got rusted and pitted, and then was reblued after some fairly vigorous buffing. A great candidate for a no-frills, high-mileage, hard-use gun, which is exactly what "M" wanted...... I did, um, go over budget a little, but dang it, once I get started, it's hard to say, OK, I got this area perfected, now I'm going to leave this other area as-was, adequate but not great. I have a real problem doing that sometimes
. The rear sight started out as a YoBo Professional Grade, made specifically ( I believe) with one-handed manouvers in mind. As with the casino gun's owner, "M" wanted something as "rackable" and hard to miss as possible, so both guns have what I kinda informally call the "shield driver" mod, which is to give the front surface of the sight a deep, forward slanted, serrated surface, and a long, deep lead-in to it (by virtue of the flat on the slide behind the ejection port), making it easy to hook that sight on whatever's around for one-handed clearance / loading moves. I call it shield driver because is is of particular use to an entry team guy who is "driving" the ballistic shield. His primary arm is a handgun and he can't very well set the shield down to mess with it-- with a square-fronted rear sight, he can rack the slide on the back edge of the shield. My mod just makes it a little deeper and harder to miss. This gun will not be at SHOT as far as I know.
Anyway-- this second gun is Parkerized. The sights are Parko'd and then given a GunKote paint and bake, to get them nice and black.
Both guns, the sights have been prepped by me for the tritium inserts, so the inserts are set in to about .080 below flush.
More later..... now the pics.
Left-- MSH with lanyard loop from Guncrafter Industries, and a magwell that's pretty big without going to toomuch trouble. Grips are Navidrex thin grips per customer's pref. Right-- more magwell area can be had by opening it up to the rear. MSH has a special shelf on it, frame gets modified a little, so that the funneling inthe rear does not cause and unsightly and reload-slowing knife-edge of steel at the rear wall of the mag chute. I used to weld this on to exising MSH's but now that Legacy (Stan Chen) is making them, well, they're the cat's butt for this mod. This magwell is also aided by the very bottom of the butt having been shortened by the thickness of a standard magazine floorplate-- leaving the grips hanging down just a bit-- and they are chamfered on the inside, thus becoming part of the magwell. The shortening of the butt by this .070 or so allows this, and it also facilitates the positive seating of a mag that does not have a big ol' extended floorplate on it.
Who can tell me, what's the deal with the slide stop?
YoBo light rail, screwed and silver soldered on. Dang hard to get a joint this big perfect....... I would have to show the spot with the little voids in the silver, wouldn't I? But-- it's on there for ever and ever. Just my obsessive compulsion not to trust screws on guns.
A hint on the above question is in this picture.
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