CMP 1911??

One of the other boards had a picture of a pile of 1911s on a table, supposedly at CMP.

Blowing up the picture as much as possible, I saw all sorts of guns.
Some were in unworn Parkerizing, either almost unused or unused since AA rework, some looked well used. Surprisingly, there were a number with commercial parts, Pachmayr and Colt grips, stainless steel controls, even a beavertail or two.

It's a waiting game.

Say, kraig, what is the Army using M1s for these days that they should have a one for the Army, one for resale deal?
 
Jim Watson, you wouldn't happen to have that picture or a link to said picture would you? I would be interested in seeing it!
 
If anyone has seen an M1 come out of CMP they for sure wont be concerned about the quality of the 1911's that will come out.
I would like one just for the reason its an old 1911 or A1. Lets face it they were never target guns but they have a history that deserves to be in my safe.
 
50 years ago this month, Dec 66, I graduated from MP school.

We qualified with the 1911s. When we first went to the range they ran us though a practice qualification to see who needed help. I qualified Expert in practice. Bad move, instead of more shooting they used that as my qualification and I got put on detail while everyone else had fun.

Any way later, this other guy and I screwed up and instead of having the weekend off like everyone else we had the pleasure of cleaning every 1911A1 in the MP School.

We made an assembly line. We walked down the line with each pistol, stacking parts. Slide here, barrel there, bushing here, etc until we had all the pistols laid out by part, then after cleaning, we picked up a slide from the pile and walked down the line adding parts until the gun was put together. We gave no though of adding parts to the gun they came from.

That's just one instant of mix masters, I'm sure there were many others in the live of the 1911s.

I don't buy they aren't accurate. For a combat pistol, they are accurate and extremely reliable.

In SE Asia I've crawled on my hands and knees through rice patties with a 1911a1 in my right hand. It was covered with mud, a quick shake to get the big chunks off and it fired every time.

Later in my NG life, I shot on several Combat Pistol Teams, rules required that arms room 1911s be use. I didn't fine a problem with accuracy with any of them.

But the main thing, they go bang every time you pull the trigger, and its easy to keep the rounds in the 9-10 ring of the B-27 target at 50 yards.

Yeap, if given the chance, I'll get another one.
 
We made an assembly line. We walked down the line with each pistol, stacking parts. Slide here, barrel there, bushing here, etc until we had all the pistols laid out by part, then after cleaning, we picked up a slide from the pile and walked down the line adding parts until the gun was put together. We gave no though of adding parts to the gun they came from.
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Nothing new there. My father did that off the beaches of Normandy in an ordnance company. They would dump the parts in gasoline then motor oil then wipe them off and then another assembly line to put them together.
The saddest part of the story was when the guns would come back with blood and parts on them.
 
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