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A couple of years ago, I was forunate enough to be able to purchase a Richard Heinie-built Colt Series '70...the gun has an INTERESTING history, and was featured in at least one article in "American Handgunner" Magazine...I'll let the PICTURES tell the STORY...
















...the gun shoots WAY BETTER than I do...I let Dave Sevigny, the reknowned "Glock Jockey", put a coupla' clip-fulls thru it last Summer at a "Steel Match"...Dave doesn't say much, but when he finished shooting it and turned around to hand it back to me, his BIG GRIN said volumes!...Hope you enjoyed seeing it....mikey357

Thanks for sharing! A really cool pistol.

John

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I may be big, old, and slow, but so are the ball rounds in my 1911.

That's a beauty!

It reminds me of the 1911 I saw on the cover of American Handgunner MANY years ago that started my love of the 1911. The one on the cover was a Pachmayr Combat Special and I loved the looks of that pistol. I saved the magazine for a while, but it's long gone now. I remember that it came with magazines that had what looked like ALUMINUM base pads on them.
I'd love to have one of those Combat Specials one day....

Nala

There is no school like the old school.

Nice! Thanks for sharing.

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...I still have some of those aluminum and brass base pads. I hope Dick sees that post...lol. nothing like seeing your old work.

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"I like double barrels....Aprilia, Ducati, and sxs rifles"

Interesting evolution of his rear sights. I liked the way they started out, but they slowly lost their front edge. Now, the old ones would be right back in style. Funny how trends in firearms work.

ML

those are available...

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"I like double barrels....Aprilia, Ducati, and sxs rifles"

Thanks for sharing, that certainly is a keeper.

...something ELSE "Interesting" about this Pistol...even tho' he used a Kart barrel, "Hard-Fit", Mr. Heinie used what looks like one of Armand Swenson's old "Barrel Positioners" inside the left side of the slide, forward of the Breechface...I really need to try to get a pic or two of it...Anyone else ever seen an R. Heinie gun so equipped? Thanks....mikey357

I did several Pistols with the barrel positioner.

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What exactly is a "hard fit" barrel?

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Mr. Heinie:
THANKS for the reply! I think you may remember me e-mailing you when I picked this one up...about a "Refinish"? Well, I may still do that...the PROBLEM is going to be LETTING GO of it for that long! It is a NICE one...as they say in finer eating establishments, "My COMPLIMENTS to the CHEF!"....mikey357

Are you saying that the "old style" Heinie sights are available? Who? Where?

ML

The "300-series" sights are the original Heinie's; they're still available through Heinie as well as Brownells; p/n: 394-300-000 for the tritium "Straight-8" versions, I know they offer the plain black as well because I stuck a set on a BHP about a month ago.
-JBurnett

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That is gorgeous.

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"Slow down, you'll get a more harmonious outcome...."

Mr. Semmens,

A hard fit barrel seems to mean a lot of things to different people, but generally, the accepted hard fit is accomplished by an oversized or welded barrel with the hood cut to length and width, barrel top lugs seating at the preferred depth @ approximately 2 and 10 0'clock, in looking at the barrel from the chamber end. Once fitted to the slide the bottom lugs are cut to fit the slide stop pin and proper length of engagement. . I always understood this to be the differentiating factor from slinging in a long link. my $.02...... hence "hard" fit.

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"I like double barrels....Aprilia, Ducati, and sxs rifles"

I have an older gun made by Heinie in 1991. It's not a full house gun but it shoots great!

"Hard fit" is one of those terms that means what the speaker wants it to mean. For the old Bullseye crowd, and a lot of gunsmiths, it means a tight, full-length hood fit, with enough drift side-to-side to ensure fitting. the barrel is propped up as high as the slide allows, unless the slide allows it to be too high, in which case they'd put a bead of weld on the inside of the slide to limit upward fit. Then the lower lugs are fitted a scosh tight, so the gun wedges itself closed.

In a "hard fit" gun, old-school, you have to actually use a bit more force to open it, than you need to cycle it. When you open it, it "pops" open.

To some of the newer crowd, a tight fit is not so much a .001" oversized fit, but an absolute perfect fit, with no measurable play when closed, but no need to pop it open.

Both are accurate, reliable and durable when properly done.

Calling a long-link lockup "hard fit" loses you a whole lot of man-points in the 1911 arena.

My Heinie gun, which was built in the mid-eighties, is I guess what you'd call hard-fit. If you slowly close the slide, it will almost shut all the way needing just a touch to fully seat everything. But when chambering a round or firing, it has never missed.

Twenty-years and thousands of rounds later, it fits the same.

That is hand fitting!

ML

A couple years ago I met Mikey in a dark parking lot to do some glock transaction and he opened the trunk, pulled out a gun rug and told me to look at the pistol inside. It was this gun. I was quite awed to have held a piece of history in my hand.

Ricky...Ricky...Ricky...You PROMISED not to TELL anyone about the "Tactical Tupperware"!!!... SHEESH!!!... ....mikey357

I soooooo miss my Heinie LW Commander. Came to me by way of a coworker for whom Heinie built it, I traded it to Mushinto (above) who was also a coworker at the time. Mushinto traded it to yet another coworker (that gun was such slut, lol). Mushinto and I have both been trying to get that pistol back.

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Achem, I thought it was mine.

Either way, the guy I sold it to is much older than us ...

ML

Acquired yesterday at a local gunshow....

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Nice old Heinie gun; nice Hoag grip safety.

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Mr. Bodyarmorguy, it looks like your "New Find" may be number 106, IF I'm seeing correctly--Crappy monitor and nearsightedness, y'know--if so, it is only SIX numbers off from the "Plaxco Gun"...Interesting! Thanks for posting the pics!....mikey357

Nice bit of history fellas.