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Could some of you please help me out. I am thinking of buying a "Combat Government" that is in near perfect condition. It has a rollmark that closely resembles this one:

http://louderthanwords.us/forum/viewtopic.php?t=5583

The difference is that it says "Combat Government" instead of "Government Model". I tried to research the pistol as much as I could, but I couldn't find out anything about them. I was wondering if they are any different from a colt commercial other than the sights, and what years they were produced.

I am going to get this and have it as my first, one and only 1911 and have it built up by a good smith and shoot the snot out of it. Would it be a good base gun for $900?

PM me you email address. I just got the October 10-8 Performance newsletter and Hilton Yam wrote about the Combat Government. I'll forward you the email newsletter if you give me your email address.

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Ted

They make very good base guns in my view... they come with a serrated front strap, so you have to work with that. One of my favorite "factory" Colts.

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www.mattlamey.com

OK, I went ahead and bought it. It doesn't have the front strap serrations that I can see. I'll have to go back and take the pachymr (sp?) grips off the thing to see for myself.

**ETA**
It does have the front serrations. Do you think they could be taken off for a blank high cut frontstrap?

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Im no gunsmith, but the serrations on the Combat Govt. are usually deep, i think they are basically deep cut 20 lpi, not sure. I kinda like them, so my view would be to leave them alone, you can always do a high grip cut and if need be go back and recut them a bit if need be (if the front strap needing truing etc.).


Im sure whomever you have build the pistol will have some ideas on the topic.

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Red,

I have a 1981 Colt Combat Gov't with serrations.

Am on Harrison Design waiting list. The serrations concerned me so I sent the frame only to John and let him measure the front strap thickness.

I don't know if I'm lucky or if it is the norm - but the front strap is thick enough to remove the serrations and refinish it with 30lpi checkering (25 or 20lpi wouldn't work as the cuts would be too deep)

I have a little bit of information about the Combat Gov't if you'll PM me with your email address - I'll forward it along.

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