Thank you zeke, I kinda got lucky and was helped greatly by my Wife. I attended a major auction specifically to look at and bid on the Remington Rand. I put an application into the Civilian Marksmanship Program (CMP) for their sell of M1911A1's. CMP used a random number generator to assign numbers to the applications. They can only sell approximately 4,000 pistols the first year. They had over 19,000 applications. Thus far, I have not done well or received my numbers. Those lucky people with low numbers are reporting most of the pistol are arsenal rebuilds with mix-matched slides to frames and/or generic slides to specific brand pistols. That had me seeking a M1911A1 at this auction for a more original pistol. I carried a Remington Rand in Nam and wanted one of my own.
The wife does the bidding for me since I am hard of hearing at auctions. She really wanted me to also have the beautiful like new Model 29 .44 Magnum. She thought it was the cat's meow. I had told her the K-38 was a back-up in case we did not do well on the other auction bids. She misunderstood me and won it to. Who am I to complain. We did well on all three as far as final price (combination of bid price, buyer's premium, sales tax, shipping cost and FFL cost).
