Get Guns.com offers and news!! I even tried one of those sexy shoulder rigs to carry my old .45. Early Remington Rand pistols will reveal striking similarities in some of the posted on April 15, 2011. parts to Singer made parts such as the triggers and mainspring housings. Call (866) 582-4867, PO Box 1131 13800 Nicollet Blvd Burnsville, MN 55337 2023Guns.com. FJA and P proof on left side frame, with crossed cannons on right side. Additionally, this Armscor pistol lacks the arched mainspring housing, and it wears smooth wooden grips rather than diamond-checkered walnut or brown plastic stocks found on originals. Following a few changes to the original design, in 1926, an updated design was standardized, resulting in the A1 designation. (Photo: U.S. Air Force photo). Chris Johnson, FN Senior Product Manager, walks us through two new FN striker-fired pistols at SHOT Show 2023: the FN 510 Tactical, chambered in 10mm Auto, and the FN 545 Tactical, chambered in .45 ACP. By now, I am guessing you are waiting for the pithy little battle tale about the time the clean-but-worn M1911A1 .45 saved my ass. The media could not be loaded, either because the server or network failed or because . left is a 1964 National Match .45 pistol with a Drake slide. | At the end of my tour, I was pleased to be going home and leaving the company in the capable hands of Reed Clark. Check out some of the auction sights such as Ebay, Gunbroker, etc. Springfield Armory did not attempt to match the original M1911A1 exactly, but this pistol does offer the general look and feel of the World War II veteran with a list of modern upgrades. Short-profile A1 iron sights? 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Atwood, an Ordnance Department wheel, and U.S. Property marks. second to none. Meanwhile, this Remington Rand has escaped relatively unscathed and intact. 45 ACP, Living with the Les Baer Thunder Ranch Special, Making the Rock Island Armory .45 1911 Pistol Reliable, My Brief Love Affair with the Kimber Gold Combat Stainless, New Rollmarked Colt M1991A1 .45acp Government Model, Not Happy With Lightweight Springfield Armory Champion, Para-Ordnance C7.45 LDA Stainless Issue Update, Range Report: Custom Colt Commander .45 ACP, Springfield Armory Loaded Micro-Compact 1911-A1, Springfield Armory OD Green Armory Kote Loaded 1911 Pistol, Springfield Ultra Compact High-Capacity, Model PX9701l. The "P" marks should match and if they do not then the slide and receiver are mismatched. It might even have been a veteran of Korea as well as World War II. For Remington Rand, this meant making M1911A1 pistols, the standard U.S. military handgun since 1926. At the rear is a no-snag ramped rear sight with two white dots, and its serrated on the side for added grip when grabbing a handful of gun to rack the slide. #REMINGTON RAND 1911A1 1945 SERIAL# Of course this is a textbook example and comes as shipped with 2 spare mags. As for why the gun looks so minty, the story is that the gun was issued to said B-17 bomber pilot who only shot it to familiarize himself with it and returned home with the gun after the war, where it spent the rest of its life largely in storage. Made sometime during World War II, my new gun was a Remington-Rand M1911A1 that had been through the refurbishing process at least a couple of times. Its entirely possible the old .45 rode ashore in one or more of the Pacific Island campaigns of World War II. History is just a click away. 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One authority I consulted indicates this is early 1944 production while a second indicated it's a number from any time in 1944 or 1945. It could only be removed with steel wool, and I didnt have any of the fine stuff. At the end of my tour, I was pleased to be going home and leaving the company in the capable hands of Reed Clark. Read today's "The Armed Citizen" entry for real stories of law-abiding citizens, past and present, who used their firearms to save lives. Robert A. Payne. models. Several days later, I was home at my parents place in California. Now exactly what kind of 1911 pistol you got when you ordered one of these from the DCM was STRICTLY LUCK OF THE DRAW, most of them that I have seen were WWII reworked WWI Colt 1911s. All Rights Reserved, A Pilot's Best Friend: WWII Remington Rand M1911A1. arsenals, other inspectors or even field units, the three below are the high rate of Parts Interchangeability Test failures. Heres mine on the S-A loaded 1911A1. Several days later, I was home at my parents place in California. By March of 1945 they where And I discovered another thing about the grand old gun and its less-than-grand old holster. This magazine has their company logo in place of the "m" used on the Colt contract mags. While Colt, Ithaca, Remington Rand and others were manufacturing M1911A1 pistols for World War II, Inland Manufacturing in Dayton, Ohio, was busy making another tool for the war: the M1 Carbine. Question about barrel date stamp on my Remington 03A3, Remington 03A3 receiver date vs barrel date. Careful examination of Gunsmithing, Troubleshooting & Refinishing, M1911 Disassembly and reassembly animations, Tests of Products of general shooters interest, Airsoft/Air Gun Modifications, Troubleshooting and Maintenance. Remington Rand produced 958,764 licensed copies of the M1911A1 for the war effort between 19421945. Charles Clawsons Colt .45 Service pistols. This latter vessel was one of the new helicopter carriers, capable of carrying a battalion landing team and a full squadron of H-34 helicopters. NRA Staff. In honor of the 75th anniversary of D-Day, Guns & Ammo offers a look at modern so-described mil-spec M1911A1s in .45 ACP. And every time we went into a paddy, the gun went into the contents of that paddy. The .38 Smith & Wesson Special, designed in 1898, rocked the handgun realm with its ballistic performance making it a cartridge for the history books. Remington Rand "C" Division converted a vacant . I still wonder why I got so many cans of this meal. Do Pistols Benefit From Popular Aftermarket Modifications? The trigger length is correct (albeit with an incorrect serrated shoe), the triggerguard is correct, as is the grip safety and arched mainspring housing. He got the gun, too. Inland Manufacturing relaunched the brand with authentic reproduction M1 Carbines, followed by variations of the M1, the M37 shotgun and M1911A1. After a couple of false starts, we finally went for realat Qui Nonh on July 1, 1965. The M3, sometimes referred to as the flyer holster by militaria collectors to set it apart from later tanker holster models, was often issued to USAAF aircrews and occasionally to Army paratrooper officers. Dont try it, that strap cuts into your neck something awful. It was witnessed that he used an M1911 to shoot a Japanese sniper at 80 yards, demonstrating its accuracy potential with one-hand shooting. Only after a change in I discovered that sand and dust, propelled by sweeping helicopter blades, accelerated the wear and sometimes almost sandblasted the gun. Some late 1944-early 1945 Colt pistols have slides that appear darker and smoother than frames. This current lineup is blued, not Parkerized. The bullet ramp in the frame should be machined to bare steel, but not mirror-polished (which would indicate somebody messing with it). While the wear on the gun was lessened by being under cover a little more, I still checked it daily. R (Risdon), S (Scovill), L (Little) and G (General Shaver). As we were doing so, the supply system began to cough up all kinds of new equipment and a few .45s were part of it. We (man and gun) stepped into a rice paddy. Even then, a spoof can be hard to spot. The hammer spur is the narrow type, but checkered, while the grip safety and trigger are alike, though not exact replicas of the original parts. You still pay the normal price, our commission comes from their profit, so you have nothing to lose, while we have something to gain. Range Reports - Show us how good you are! which was only used in 1943, and then the Type 3 used in 1943, 1944, and Through the period leading up to and shortly after WW2 there would be a total of 1.8 Million M1911A1's produced between Colt, Ithaca, Remington Rand, Union Switch & Signal and Singer. 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