Category Archives: Guns

Pistol_purview Colt 70 series .45 1911 by regional smith Charlie Thompson out of Toledo Ohio. Karl Beining found this abandoned gem at a local gun show and the hard chromed Bomar and the swaged magwell made it worth the cost of admission for me. Still wearing its original hard chrome, it’s now “cleaned up” aContinue reading “Charlie Thompson Custom Colt”

Pistol_purview Most people are familiar with the small Seecamp “pocket pistols” but long before these pistols hit the market, their inventor did this — double action 1911 conversion. Ludwig Wilhelm Seecamp (1901-1989) was trained as a master gunsmith in World War II Germany. Having survived the Eastern Front in an elite unit, he brought hisContinue reading “Seecamp Double Action 1911 Conversion”

From Custom_Handguns “Ugly man” is coming to town. The latest #ArmandSwenson to the collection. If #custom1911 gunsmiths are to be compared to artists, Swenson is the Picasso. I have examined many, seen pictures of dozens of Swenson guns and no two guns are exactly alike. I repeat, no two Swenson guns are exactly alike. IContinue reading “Swenson “Ugly Man” Custom 1911″

Pistol_purview Bob Chow was appropriately born in 1911 (in the U.S) to Chinese immigrants. He was a pioneer ham radio operator in his youth and he joined the Navy Reserve in the early 1930s. He would become a noncommissioned officer—a rarity at that time for an Asian Americans. An accomplished competitive shooter, he hung 37Continue reading “Bob Chow Match 1911”

Pistol_purview Colt 70 series 1911 in 45 ACP by industry legend Dave Lauck ((D&L Sports) out of Chino Valley AZ. Does it seem like some of the best 1911 smiths in the country live in AZ? I don’t order 1911s much these days…mostly because I can’t take the heartache. Send a gun, send a bunchContinue reading “Dave Lauck Custom Colt”

Have a M1911 with the excellent fixed Novak rear sight that really wish you could have a BoMar on instead? You aren’t the only one. But, as you have likely already learned, the slide dovetail cut for one just will not allow the use for the other. Good news though. . Karl Beining custom gunsmthingContinue reading “NoMar Rear 1911 Sight”

Karl has blessed us again today with a revolver I really want.

A real classic from Karl today.

Karl shared these two beauties with the world. New Frontier models.