Category Archives: Guns

From 1911_purview A buddy of mine found this 1911 because it was cool and it had good bones. BUT..it was five different colors, had a banged up Bomar , and was just overall a little weird for its 30 years of service. Who are we kidding, it was exhausted. He sent it to me toContinue reading “Austin Behlert 1911”

Just a Classic Custom 1911 from Jason’s Arizona shop. Jason has a long history of putting out top shelf custom 1911’s, this one is built very much in what I think of as ‘Jason’s Spec’, Displaying his flawless hand checkering and a great blued finish, topped off with great Grips.

I have been through hundreds Colt double action revolvers but until cleaning this early model 1896 Colt New Police .32 I had never come across a leaf spring in the hammer and on the cylinder stop in the frame. We’ll take it apart and compare with the normal coil spring Colts with their safety system.

An interesting single stack custom from the longstanding Nowlin shop, these guns built on their frames were some of the first ‘factory customs’ built to compete right out of the box.

Lot’s to cover in the early years, prior to World War 2. The 1911 transition to the 1911A1, World War 1 guns, the 38 Super during the Mob Era, the lesser known Argentinian Contract and Production Guns as well as the .22 trainer known as the ACE.

By Luis Valdes The S&W 4566 TSW was the last of the 3rd Gen .45 Autos. Solid hunks of stainless steel with a levem of craftsmanship that rivaled custom guns. The Ruger P345 was the last of the classic P Series guns. Internally, it is a classic P97 .45 ACP with the cluttered sharp ergonomicsContinue reading “TWO POST AWB GUNS DOOMED TO MARKET FAILURE”

Pistol_purview This all chrome 80 series Colt in .45 ACP was built by Rich Stoddard as his personal carry gun. This pistol was purchased from his estate after he died in 2018. The gun was built in 1991 and features hand checkering, Barsto NM barrel, Ed Brown hammer and thumb safety, lowered and flared port,Continue reading “Rich Stoddard Custom 1911”