re: Outdoor life

Thanks everyone. It is my gun, I haven’t shot it yet but will. Purchased from an elderly gentleman.

Re: Frankengun - The best thing I can suggest is to study pictures and read. The gun above is an arsenal rebuild gun and is correct for that type but in some ways unusual as it appears all original mechanical components stayed with the gun. It would have originally been shipped with wooden grip panels during WW1 but the plastic ones installed are correct for an arsenal gun rebuilt somewhere around the Korean War. You will want to understand barrel markings, safety and hammer types, grip safety styles, etc. A commercial 1911 will have a much different finish.

Colt made bunches of these guns in 1918. Mine was shipped out the door on May 27, 1918.