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Here are some pics of a Caspian-based Government Model that is going to SHOT. It wears IonBond DLC finish and handmade American walnut stocks.

Some of the key ingredients include:
Slide flat topped, serrated 40 lpi and fluted borders
SDM dovetail front sight, serrated 50 lpi and machined to match the flat top border
Harrison Design Extreme Service rear sight
Slide's heel serrated 50 lpi, Ball Cuts and Heavy Lower Bevel
Kart match barrel & H-D bushing and logo plug
Harrison Design Extreme Service ignition set
Harrison Design Extreme Service trigger
Frontstrap trued, high gripped and checkered 25 lpi
CMC Beavertail and Brown ambi thumb safety
Legacy Custom MagWell Suite









Now you might ask yourself how would you make this pistol 'Mo Better?

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Well, you'd make two of them, of course!

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The grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love and something to hope for.

Absolute beauties!! That legacy Custom mag well is to die for!

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Nice job John! You guys kill me every year around Shot time. Maybe next year.

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Steve

Simply amazing Mr. Harrison.....

spring, when a young man's thoughts turn to... akimbo?

I love what you did with the front sight. They look way better in person! Great job John!

Simply stunning John! When you said that these turned out nice, you were obscenely modest. Great work once again!

Can't wait to fondle the pair next week.

John, I can't quite make out the serial numbers...... NED001 and NED002 maybe...?

A poor, not-SHOT-goin' jamoke can dream, can't he?

VERY nice John!

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Aubrey<><

Ima steal those....

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CT Brian Custom
'Blending Art With Firepower'

SWEET very nice looking pair. CT I'll arm wrestle ya for them

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Double Perfection!

So I'm in Iraq last year, and after a particularly long night in April, I hop off a helo, dump my body armor and M4 in my pod and pull up LTW on the Internet. After about 2 hours of surfing, I realize I've been looking at several pics of John's work. Now, at this point I'm considering myself somewhat 1911 heavy. I already owned a Springfield Loaded Operator (the original with the full length dust rail) customized by their Custom Shop, had stumbled upon a Springfield Black Stainless model at a gun show that I purchased with the intent of getting it customized, and prior to my deployment I'd also purchased a STI Spartan via a group buy and had made plans with up and coming pistolsmith Bob Miller to customize that gun for training work. Three 1911’s in the safe seemed like more than enough for me at the time. Somewhere along the line though, I’d managed to stack about 6 Glocks in the collection, and the balance in the safe seemed to be off just a bit.

Two weeks prior to that fateful April night, I had contacted Dave Erickson and made plans to have him build up a complete gun on a Les Baer Monolith frame and slide, and I was already spinning around a plan in my head to have him build up that Black Stainless in a fashion similar to that Tolentino (sic) gun that I'd spotted here on LTW a while back. John's work was so impressive, and having come face to face, night after night, with some of the fine inhabitants of Iraq, it didn't take much thinking on my part to fire off an email to John asking his availability to do some work as an additional reward for dealing with smelly bearded men.

The idea behind this project had actually taken shape a year or two earlier. I was looking through a box of awards and assorted crap at work from previous tours that I'm not allowed to take home, and I thought it would be nice to have something that I could look at or share with my kid that told the story of some of the fun units his old man has worked with over the years. A quality 1911, with a custom serial number commemorating some of those tours and/or assignments seemed like a good idea, but I put it in the back pocket and didn't think about it until that night in April 2008. So John gets the email, promptly responds that he's available for work, that his time frame matches up with mine, and was even willing to accept some of my weird requests, like wanting to put down a 50% deposit instead of the $25 per gun he normally requires, because at the end of the day if Johnny Jihad got lucky and clipped me, I didn't want my 3 y/o son not being able to get these guns because they weren't paid off. Communication throughout the process was excellent, and John even bumped me up a bit on his list, working a little on these guns as he found time to get them back to me sooner that the original 2-year time frame I had anticipated. Haven't seen the guns in the flesh yet, and it figures that the one time I actually have something that will be on display at SHOT is the year I can't make it to SHOT...but to say I'm giddy to get them is an understatement. What you’re seeing here is basically John’s Peerless package, to which he’s added a few extras based on our discussions. Not shown in this pic are the fighting grips that John also fit for the guns, a matching pair of Mil-Tac G10 black and grey grips. Because after all, guns that look this good deserve to be shot real good. A few years down the road my kid is going to celebrate some major milestone and when he does, these will be in a case presented to him. Until then, I’m going to enjoy shooting the snufalufagus out of them!

those are the cat's meow! sweet work john, really nice! And to think a pair!!

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Great story and thank you for your service!!!