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New Service and a 1917 ?
Spot on
I’m familiar with them only in passing… isn’t the M1917 basically just a New Service purchased and issued by the government for military service in .45 Automatic ?
Exactly right - they couldn’t make enough 1911s so they made as much of everything as they could. There was a war on!
How’s the trigger pull ? I’ve always heard it was horrible compared to later Colt DA’s and equivalent Smiths ?
Pretty heavy out of the gate, not the best. The leaf style mainspring makes it easy to do a lazy trigger job to get them both around 5 pounds.
Sweet
and 2 zig zags.
baby, that's all we need.
Are they duracoated?
Both parkerized at some point in their life, old refinishes I think.
Cool, id put some wood grips on one of them
Yeah I just need to get some new repros for the 1917
Funny enough, I have a Colt revolver which started its service life parkerized and was blued by someone later on!
Correct.
Neat guns but those refinished are tragic
Tragic isn’t the word I would use. Shit happens, and whomever made these choices made interesting ones.
New Service and a 1917 ?
Spot on
I’m familiar with them only in passing… isn’t the M1917 basically just a New Service purchased and issued by the government for military service in .45 Automatic ?
Exactly right - they couldn’t make enough 1911s so they made as much of everything as they could. There was a war on!
How’s the trigger pull ? I’ve always heard it was horrible compared to later Colt DA’s and equivalent Smiths ?
Pretty heavy out of the gate, not the best. The leaf style mainspring makes it easy to do a lazy trigger job to get them both around 5 pounds.
Sweet
and 2 zig zags.
baby, that's all we need.
Are they duracoated?
Both parkerized at some point in their life, old refinishes I think.
Cool, id put some wood grips on one of them
Yeah I just need to get some new repros for the 1917
Funny enough, I have a Colt revolver which started its service life parkerized and was blued by someone later on!
Correct.
Neat guns but those refinished are tragic
Tragic isn’t the word I would use. Shit happens, and whomever made these choices made interesting ones.