Originally Posted by FlyboyFlem
Originally Posted by 1911a1
Originally Posted by FlyboyFlem
Originally Posted by DigitalDan
Army issue that I toted around Nam. Never missed, not once.


My grandfather's gift to me when I was 16..Got special permission from my Squadron CO to fly with it in SEA.

I have Glocks and a vintage Colt CC but this one will always be close to heart for so many reasons..

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Dang, that is a early version of a improved 1911. that beaver tail is homemade. And pre Bomar micro sights I think.


Yes it is very early, a friend's father did the renovation for me before shipping out to Vietnam I requested the custom beaver tail mainly for my Sasquatch hands ..We had an aft weapons locker in our aircraft with M16 & M14's however the leftover crappy Korean War vintage S&W Mod 12's were not something any of us thought we could depend on if we got bagged and had to fight it out on the ground until the SAR cavalry arrived.


Dads 1911 from WW2 had been carried by a doctor friend in WW1 was stolen when my parents moved.....

You are so lucky to have yours.