Price Check: Mid-Eighties Colt Officer Model 1911

I own a lightweight officers model with zero problems. It feeds anything and is far more accurate than anyone would give it credit for. Series 70 Mark IV. I paid 450 about 20 years ago slightly used. The aluminum frame makes it easy to carry
 
Price Check: Mid-Eighties Colt Officer Model 1911
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1987 Officer Model .45ACP matte finish MSRP $516.50

30 years old, and he wants $200 more than they sold for new. Your call.

Early officer model 1911s have a reputation for being problematic. One works fine, the next doesn't. The balancing act between slide and springs took a bit to get figured out. Later guns seem to be more reliable over all.

(of course, any individual gun can be the exception, either way)
 
make sure you check the barrel bushing for cracks. I went through a couple of them before I decided it was time for it to have another home
 
Jdberg got it right. I have an officers from mid 90s and it is very reliable and accurate but I put the reverse guide plug in it. I don't recall exactly when but colt was using barrel bushings that were a collet and the were known to break. Easy problem to fix but they were not reliable.
 
1stmar said:
I don't recall exactly when but colt was using barrel bushings that were a collet and the were known to break.
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The collet bushing was used ONLY in the original Series 70, which was a specific model of full-sized 1911 from Colt. It was never used in Commanders or in the Officers ACP. The Officers barrel bushing, in particular, is too short to have the "fingers."
 
I once had a Colt with the collet bushing in .38 super.
It never gave a problem with thousands of rounds run through it.
It was thirty years ago, but I'm pretty sure it was a Commander size.
A friend had an alloy framed Officers model and it did develop a crack in the dust cover.
Colt replaced the frame.
Maybe it's just the alloy models that are the source of the criticisms.
 
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