This Is What I Want NEXT: Series 70 Repro

[Mick_In_Texas]

From my out-of-state dealer:

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A Colt's Series 70 Repro in stainless steel, arched MSH. I started negotiations today. I would sell at least one of my Springers (GI45) to get this one in Colt's. My O1991 is going to the indoor range with me tomorrow, as I prepare to begin using it as my primary carry, and probably use it next year to renew my Texas CHL.

But, I SO love an original... two of my Colts are 70s, my M1911 from 1918 and my WWI Repro Model; two are 80s: my Super 38 Govt Model, and my O1991. I would LOVE to have this Series 70 Repro. Despite my current situation, I'm working on it!

Y'all take care and be safe.

Mick

[d90king]

Good luck with your negotiating on your new Series 70 repro Mick. I am sure you will love it. Here's a couple of pics to hold you over. ;)

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[John]

Hold him over? There is no reason to hold him over, he will have his gun in a couple of days and be as happy as my kids in Toys-R-Us.

In the mean time, I'll use your pictures to drool a little (or a lot).

[daveohno]

I'm sure you'll be a happy camper with your new Colt, Mick. Congratulations and good luck with the purchase!

[rhtwist]

Good luck with your purchase. Just suggest you look the gun over before accepting it. Probably no problems.
rhtwist

[WJR]

Best of luck in your negotiations. Please post pics once you bring the new addition home.

I want a stainless NRM for Customization and a stainless 70 to keep stock.

WJR

[cliff731]

That's what I'm talking about, Mick! :appld:

[Mick_In_Texas]

That's what I'm talking about, Mick! :appld:

DROOL, I reckon! Thank you, king... I see it is really much like my Super 38 Government Model in stainless steel: polished sides on the slide and frame, dull everywhere else. It also has the arched MSH, and appears to have the -A1 shorter trigger assembly, while my Super and my O1991 have the longer triggers on them, like the WWI Repro and the M1911... Thank you again. It is a beautiful gun.

I am considering this very carefully... I have the credit to get it right now. My job situation may have changed; that depends on whether the head honcho is telling truth in a memo Friday afternoon or not (and he doesn't have a, let us say, good reputation for this, either internally or externally)... Still, it is new in box, not used, from a dealer I use in Virginia who is very good, as is my local FFL. I'm not sure. I've been pleased with three of my four Colts, going all the way back to 1918... My O1991, I'm afraid, not so pleased with (deal with it in the other recent thread I started). Overall, I know they are EXCELLENT for the most part. The Series 70 also seems to have those wonderful Colt three-dot sights on it; they are excellent to my eye, better than my Mil-Spec's, my two Ruger handguns, and my Taurus.

If I get this beauty, I'm sure I'll bother you all with some photos of it! Likely it looks just like d90king's; yet, I'm also sure that my grip-pimping side will... see about switching out those beautiful double-diamond checkered rosewoods on there. THOSE are beautiful Colt's OEM stocks: my WWI Repro has those on her, never to be changed, of course, and they're much better than the black rubber d-d checkereds that came on my O1991 and Super. Lately I'm starting to like those d-d checkered stocks, either in wood or the old plastic browns from the M1911A1 Colt pistols, like on my RIA.

Thank y'all for the encouragement. It shouldn't be more than a couple of days, or this week, when I make a decision.

Y'all take care and be safe.

Mick

[myanof]

I just ordered my blue Series 70 Reissue last week, and I can't wait to get it. Now I need to sell my Kimber Custom II to someone in the Dallas area. I'm hanging on to my SA LW Loaded Champion as my winter CCW.

[Nic]

Good luck with the Colt and your job. Nic

[Jescorrea]

First of all, Good to hear from you again. i was gone for several months too. Going back to Iraq in Nov. Always looked forward to your postings. Have fun with all your 1911's

Congrats on the gun and take care.

[Mick_In_Texas]

I just ordered my blue Series 70 Reissue last week, and I can't wait to get it. Now I need to sell my Kimber Custom II to someone in the Dallas area. I'm hanging on to my SA LW Loaded Champion as my winter CCW.

While I have nothing against those high-ends, like your Kimber... I do love a basic, functional 1911 built on more or less original specs. Keeping my SA Mil-Spec, for sure: it ran circles around some other makes several years ago, as far as reliability, feed, whatever. The first 1911 I ever handled was that Mark IV Government Model in blue, of my work buddy's... it was a "Series 70", made long before Colt's was forced to come up with the firing pin block (same for Springer, and Ruger, although different solutions there)... Colt's Patent Firearms Manufacturing Company, does some BEAUTIFUL production bluing. Yet, their stainless pistols... if my Super 38 is any representative... are also WELL-done.

Heck, if they work, they're ALL beautiful: had I a lot of disposable income, I get me a Kimber Raptor--I LOVE the design of the engraving/casting on that thing. It's just a beautiful rendering, artistically, of a 1911 platform. I'll never have one, I'm sure. They may be tighter than what I like, but the high ends help keep our beloved 1911 alive... while the "low ends"--mostly all great firearms--satisfy the niche I'm in. Fact is, if I had money... one of my proven ones, would get a meeting with a very good engraver! I LOVE tasteful engraving... it is becoming a lost art. Folks here, in other forums, have led me to links where I have seen some BEAUTIFUL engraved and re-finished examples of this incredible design.

But, like YOU, I LOVE that Series 70 Repro/Re-issue (like the original WWI Repro, the O1911, I think it is more a re-issue than a reproduction: it's almost identical to my M1911 from late 1918 production)... representative of a day when firearms themselves were not nearly so ostracized, but were seen as tools, as they are. YOU enjoy YOURS... please let us see that beauty!!! Let us know how it shoots, as well. I know lots of others are interested, not just me...

Y'all take care and be safe.
Mick

[Mick_In_Texas]

I'm considering the assumption of debt carefully: I may have to try to sell some things I'm not particularly enamored of, and wouldn't miss, that might have interest. Still, with king's additional photos (my Va dealer's photo didn't do it justice), it's a beautiful arm, and built like I like them: without the firing pin block mechanism in the slide.

I don't need it. Some folks do, but I don't. I know why the Series 80s came to be; just like the SA ILS mechanisms, and those smaller firing pins. And my P90's blocking mechanism, and that pesky "ejector" in the mag well... but I don't need that stuff right now.

I'm proud and thankful to own my Rock Island (a great gun), my Taurus (also great), my two Imbel-forged Springers (my Mil-Spec, in particular, is a sweet reliable firearm), my Rugers... but, there's something about a Colt's. Ever since I got hold of an original M1911 from WWI several years ago, in great shape, I just... I don't know. Seems... they FEEL different than my Springers, and my Rock. Sounds weird, I know, but just seems that way. I'd love to have a .45 caliber to carry, use... one that's accurate and reliable. My Super 38 is excellent, but over-powered for most of my needs, although a beautiful caliber for the highway and lands, I just prefer a .45 ACP round generally. Works for what I need it for.

myanof is getting a blued one! Series 70... I'm anxious to see that one, too! king's ss one let me know more what the one I'm looking at, looks like... works for me. I've carried my ss SA Mil more than any gun I have owned or currently own... I sure want that Series 70 in that Galco Fletch that fits ALL my 1911s. I've got some stocks options for it, too, if I get it... and I ain't talking the NY stock exchanges...

Y'all take care and be safe, and y'all all have a good start on the week. Jess, GOOD to see you too! Had been a while for me, as well. I LOVE this place. It IS the BEST.

Mick

[d90king]

... there's something about a Colt's.
Mick



Amen brother ;)

[Hunter]

Great choice my friend, keep us posted on how it all shakes out.

[Mick_In_Texas]

Great choice my friend, keep us posted on how it all shakes out.

I definitely will keep the folks posted. It's a beautiful Colt's model, and a classic... and though I love my two Springers, my RIA... and my non-1911 handguns... as I steep my mind and heart in JMB's and Colts Patent Firearms Manufacturing Company's history... or today, Colts Manufacturing Company... I want to qualify for my CHL next year, and carry, a Colt's 1911. Primary.

Dream, I guess. But good guns. History. The original. Of my favorite platform for a handgun. I don't use my rifles that much; my handguns... daily LIFE. I never want to have to brandish one again, after my past experience; but, that Super 38 Govt Model in Series 80 is SO SWEET... I just don't like that firing pin block in it or my O1991. I can live with an arched MSH: if I get this Series 70 Repro, to keep it "all Colt's", other than the stocks, I won't change that. I can shoot either version. I prefer a flat, but can handle an arched.

I just LOVE a 1911 with that Colts Patent F.A. Mfg. Co. Hartford Conn. U.S.A. on the right side of the frame... little bitty, except on my M1911 and my WWI Repro O1911, but THERE... Armscor, my RIA, is a good gun. My two Springers are good guns. My two Rugers are good guns. My Taurus is a good gun. My Mossberg scatter gun is a good gun. My SKS is a good gun. My Bushmaster M4A2 is a good gun. But my Colts... My Colts are COLTS. There you go. I'd love to have another one.

It'd fit that Galco Fletch, and my hip, and my truck, and my nightstand, real nice...

You take care, my Bro.

Mick

[hardballing]

I have "mine" on lay a way at Cabela's. Know I probably could have gotten it for less elsewhere but well, lay a way was the way to work it into my budget (without the Mrs. knowing , he, he, he :) ), but...

today I got a Fed Ex from an ex boss. Seems he forgot to pay me a bonus and the note included 3 - $100.00 AM Ex gift cards. Whooo, Hoooo. This puts me over the top and out into my hands a month early (sssshhhhh. don't tell the Mrs :) ).

So going on my days off this week (Th-Fri) to do the paperwork and "take her out".

Will post back with a range report as I KNOW I won't be able to go past Friday night without a range trip.

Looking more forward to this one, just plain Jane vanilla, than I have for a pistol in a loooonnng time. Not sure why, and don't care :) .

[Mick_In_Texas]

Looking more forward to this one, just plain Jane vanilla, than I have for a pistol in a loooonnng time. Not sure why, and don't care :) .

It is amazing to me, how popular this Series 70 Repro/Reissue is! Congratulations on yours... I also want to commend your EX-boss for his honesty, AND that $300 bonus after-the-fact... HEE HEE HEE!!! It's little things like this that help so much, sometimes...

Somewhat aside... but since our Series 70s are .45 Automatic Colt Pistol calibers: This from Dr. Ignatius Piazza, founder of Front Sight Resorts and FrontSight.Com--".45 ACP. Our grandfathers knew it in World War II and our grandfathers’ grandsons are figuring it out again in Iraq. A .45 stops ‘em best." Great-great grandfathers ALSO knew it in the trenches and woods of WWI... delivered from those amazing M1911s.

Among many fine Colts models, and other brands, I think the Series 70 Repro (O1070A1CS, stainless, O1970A1CS, blued) are just a very historical model complimenting the venerable M1911A1 modifications...

John Moses Browning, Colt's Patent Firearms Manufacturing Company, and the War Department got it right between 1896 and 1911... platform AND caliber. At least to ME.

I love sharing the anticipation and joy with you other folks who have, or are contemplating getting/in the process of acquiring one of these! And thank you for those who encourage me; I also encourage those two or three who are in my same position... Go, folks, GO...

Mick

[cliff731]

...I love sharing the anticipation and joy with you other folks who have, or are contemplating getting/in the process of acquiring one of these! And thank you for those who encourage me; I also encourage those two or three who are in my same position... Go, folks, GO...

Mick

Mick,

This you speak of just might be the best part of wanting any new firearm... and even more so when it's a Colt.

The A-N-T-I-C-I-P-A-T-I-O-N is a sweet and intoxicating elixir... and the sharing of it with like minded friends has much to recommend! :)

I'll have to admit this thread just makes me want "my" stainless Series 70 Custom Replica even more... :D

Cliff

[Mick_In_Texas]

Mick,
This you speak of just might be the best part of wanting any new firearm... and even more so when it's a Colt.
I'll have to admit this thread just makes me want "my" stainless Series 70 Custom Replica even more... :D
Cliff

Folks...

She is BOUGHT.

Now, awaiting shipping schedule to my local FFL, who's the salt of the earth.

Cliff, mine's like your dream: the stainless model. If it shoots as well as its "sister", that Colt's Super 38 Government, it will become my primary carry arm, likely... and will become my FIFTH Colt's 1911.

I LOVE my little RIA in Park, and my two Springers... and wouldn't give for them... but... like I said earlier...

It's just a good model. It looks like Colt's is also keeping the second WWI Repro/Reissue... I hope they do. It's been a while since I got a 1911, so I'm "self-justifying" this Series 70 Model in my search for the do-it-all 1911 (well, for ME: I'm pretty meat and potatoes, as a lot of you folks know, but I DO love the three-dot combat sights on the Colt's models that have them)... And THIS one may be it. I'll still carry that Super 38 on open highways, because that is the one place I think the caliber is more effective (hoping never to use it in defense)... but apartment, hip, local trips, around town, visiting, on the lands... give me a .45 in a good brand and 1911.

Folks, for y'all: four and a half years ago, I never thought I EVER own a single Colt's 1911 platform. (Yeah, I know it's really "Colt", but I LIKE "Colt's".) Thanks to this place, and you folks, my Virginia dealer, and my FFL... I even have the DREAM, a functional, great-condition M1911 from WWI. It doesn't get any better than THAT... with four of its modern "granddaughters" to go with it. I am humbled, and thankful that I found THIS place before I ever got my first 1911. Handling that ol' Mark IV Government, just infected me with a fever, that I don't want to get rid of if I live to be 100.

Like all of us here, I'm REALLY looking forward to holding a Series 70 Model of MY OWN in my hand... GOOD LUCK with YOURS, TOO, cliff!!! No firing pin block in the slide. Stainless steel, which I like. Arched MSH, which I can live with indefinitely. Short A1 trigger, but that's alright (most of my 1911s have the longer triggers). I LOVE this platform and this caliber!!!

It works. And Colts... well, they are the originals. Sorry. They're still good guns among MANY who make this platform. Thank y'all. From the bottom of my heart.

I'll sure let y'all know when I get her, and how she shoots. I'm in a "shooting mood" lately, preparing for January of 2009 and my second Texas Concealed Handgun License renewal. I HOPE to be packing this beauty for a long time, and a lot of reasons...

Y'all take care. Keep this going as y'all get hold of YOUR Series 70 Models!!! I LOVE to see other folks's guns, as do most of us... they're ALL beautiful tools...

Mick

[Wolfgang]

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[Rio Vista Slim]

I wasn't going to do this.....

Honestly, I tried to refrain......

Oh well,

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[MoneyTree]

I wasn't going to do this.....

Honestly, I tried to refrain......

Oh well,

http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a294/RioVistaSlim/IMG_0898.jpg

Why fight it Steve , it's a losing battle anyway . :D

Great looking Colts Guys !

[cliff731]

Folks...

She is BOUGHT.

Now, awaiting shipping schedule to my local FFL, who's the salt of the earth.

Congrats to ya, Mick... I can imagine how much of that anticipation you're feeling about now! :appld:



Cliff, mine's like your dream: the stainless model. If it shoots as well as its "sister", that Colt's Super 38 Government, it will become my primary carry arm, likely... and will become my FIFTH Colt's 1911..

Oh yeah, the stainless Series 70... but it will come soon enough. I'm patient if anything at all! I've got my blued one to keep me company until then... ;)

You might say your newest Colt is also a "sister" to your M1911 WWI Reproduction... as IIRC, those Colts were based upon the same internals as your coming stainless Series 70 Custom Replica. That, Mick, is superb DNA.


Y'all take care. Keep this going as y'all get hold of YOUR Series 70 Models!!! I LOVE to see other folks's guns, as do most of us... they're ALL beautiful tools...

I'm quite happy to oblige here, Mick... and if a "tool", you may refer to her as a "power hammer" of sorts... :D

http://i178.photobucket.com/albums/w266/pentaxuser01/ColtSeries70Rightview.jpg

[Mick_In_Texas]

I wasn't going to do this.....
Honestly, I tried to refrain......

But, sir, please DON'T refrain! A LOVELY set, just lovely... the blued and the stainless, and very very beautiful stocks. My, oh, my, oh...

Mick

[Mick_In_Texas]

You've switched the MSH on your stainless Series 70 Model to the flat version, which I also prefer... When I get my own, it will be SO tempting to find her a good flat MSH in ss... perhaps the Ed Brown in "snakeskin" checkering that now adorns my beloved Springer ss Mil-Spec... or a ss S&A, flat... both good, well-made MSHs. OR... to keep her all Colt's, maybe see if I can get a Colt's ss flat, like on my Super 38 Govt Model...

Wonderful pair.

Mick

[Mick_In_Texas]

Congrats to ya, Mick... I can imagine how much of that anticipation you're feeling about now! :appld:

Oh yeah, the stainless Series 70... but it will come soon enough. I'm patient if anything at all! I've got my blued one to keep me company until then... ;)

You might say your newest Colt is also a "sister" to your M1911 WWI Reproduction... as IIRC, those Colts were based upon the same internals as your coming stainless Series 70 Custom Replica. That, Mick, is superb DNA.

I'm quite happy to oblige here, Mick... and if a "tool", you may refer to her as a "power hammer" of sorts... :D

Hmmm... well, thank you for the "sister" idea, Cliff: YES, GREAT "DNA", both the O1911 and the Series 70 Model, for sure! Hadn't thought about the similarities between the two "repro/re-issues"... I LIKE their internals, though, much prefer the ORIGINAL configuration in the slide... None of this business like the Series 80 firing-pin blocks, or the former ILS mechanisms on my two Springers, or the small firing pins on those... although those DO work, yet... NOT original design... I know my O1911 is practically IDENTICAL to my M1911, inside and out, other than superficials like wear marks, and the difference in the finishes. Very interesting idea... I LOVE IT.

Yes, our firearms are basically no more nefarious in and of themselves than any other tool or machine! They're beautiful works of art, like this beauty...

Mick

[kingc]

Mick, I love that model but in blued. I love Colt's bluing. I had two chances at buying a model in stock at my local dealer, but then I remembered how a previous M1991A1 model from 10 years ago drew blood and caused pain and agony :eek: , so I declined. Since I don't like to customize nice Colts, I still wasn't persuaded. The blood and the pain :scared: ruled. I have the scars to prove it.

Do your older models trouble you in any way like my bad experiences?

[Mick_In_Texas]

Mick, I love that model but in blued. I love Colt's bluing. I had two chances at buying a model in stock at my local dealer, but then I remembered how a previous M1991A1 model from 10 years ago drew blood and caused pain and agony :eek: , so I declined. Since I don't like to customize nice Colts, I still wasn't persuaded. The blood and the pain :scared: ruled. I have the scars to prove it.
Do your older models trouble you in any way like my bad experiences?

I didn't get into the 1911 platform until about four years ago. I mean, my dad is a wounded and decorated WWII veteran, and I grew up around firearms, and have always loved the "Colt Automatic .45"... but just didn't have any experience with the platform until I came here before I bought my first, a Springfield Mil-Spec in stainless. Yes I agree: Colt bluing is... amazing. VERY beautiful and solid, and I've seen a few firearms in my time...

I've had no problems with ANY handgun, shotgun, or rifle, except my Colt's O1991 and my Bushmaster M4A2 Izzy carbine. The M4, is detail work, not function; my O1991, like my Virginia dealer's own, shoots low and left consistently. He's told me how to correct that, with a little more factual info on the range; but it still irritates me to no end... yet, I have bought the fifth Colt 1911, this Series 70 Custom Repro. My other three current Colts, including an original M1911 from mid-to late-1918 manufacture, have been EXCELLENT. Dead-on. 100% reliable in fit, function, feed, and handling. So have my two Springers, my Rock Island, my Taurus PT92AF, my Ruger P90 (my first .45ACP pistol) and GP100, four Mossberg shotguns (only one still owned), a Chinese SKS, two Italian Berettas, a Smith 686, an AMT .380 backup, and the M4A2. I have heard here of some Colts that have major problems. Other than that O1991, mine have had NONE.

To be frank, sir, the O1911 WWI Repro--the limited one, that has been discontinued and replaced with the new one--seemed to be the Colt's model that garnered the most complaints. MINE is fine and has been excellent, although I sure don't shoot her much, but she's been carried, because I know she shoots straight, and feeds and functions reliably. I'd love to get one of the new ones... probably won't be able to... anyway, seems Colt Firearms LLC took care of the folks that got bogus ones. There were some that had off-center barrel/slide machining, as I recall... fortunately, I've had REAL good luck with the Colt's product. I don't recall what date of manufacture my Super 38 Government Model is; other than my original, it's my oldest one. IT is EXCELLENT, I just have limited use for the caliber. It's my highway gun; but always have a .45 for where I park in addition, because in MOST cases, the .45ACP is the best, to ME, personally. I do accept its limitations on automotive sheet metal and glass. That's why I have the Super 38.

Frankly, I'd carry the O1911 regularly, if the Carbona Blue wasn't delicate as a finish. I can hit what I am aiming at with the minimal military spec sights (like it, my RIA, and my SA GI45); if I could manage another, I'd have one hard-chromed and CARRY that one. There are many great brands. Colt had some problems at one time... but now, I think it is a GOOD brand. Even with that pesky O1991 I have, which, YES, I'm mad at: I believe a firearm should function reliably and accurately out of the box. Still, overall, I think you're safe with a modern Colt's. Springer has been good to me, Rock Island, Ruger, Taurus, AMC, Beretta, Smith on revolvers... that 686 .357Mag was a BEAUTY... but, I didn't hesitate to get the Series 70 Custom Repro, as I think it will be fine. It was a financial decision, not a brand decision.

I hope this helps you in some way, sir. I'm pretty meat and potatoes, don't need a lot of bells and whistles (nothing against folks who like those, I'd have a Kimber Raptor in a day if I win the Texas Lotto, 'cause I love the design of it, and it's a good brand)... my guns have to WORK. Carry, the land, whatever. I think Colt is on a new roll, now, doing GREAT work.

You take care and be safe, sir. I'm no expert, I just tell it like I see it.

Mick

[cliff731]

Folks...

She is BOUGHT.

Now, awaiting shipping schedule to my local FFL...

Mick,

We're guessing your new Series 70 Custom Replica stainless was sent overnight shipping... so is there any chance you'll have her for this Saturday? Is this going to be an entire weekend filled with more a-n-t-i-c-i-p-a-t-i-o-n! ;)

Cliff

[myanof]

Colt had some problems at one time... but now, I think it is a GOOD brand.
Mick

I sure hope you are right Mick. I am one of those guys who was a die hard Colt fan until I bought SS Commander back in the late 80s or early 90s. I loved the gun, but could never get it reliable enough to carry. After getting fed up with paying big bucks to gunsmiths and then having to prove the gun in with HydroShok each time I took it in, I gave up and bought a Kimber Custom II.

After reading about the Colt Series 70 reissue, I have ordered one and should recieve it next week. I too am getting away from the bells and whistles and am reverting back to the plain Jane 1911 with a few personal mods that are spacific to my needs.

I'll let you know.

[BMR]

Mick,for a meat and potatoes Series 70, you could send it off to the Colt Custom Shop and get a few modifications like I had done on this one - lowered ejection port, Commander hammer and grip safety, front night sight only, long 3 hole aluminum trigger, flat serrated MSH, dehorned and matte finished:

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[option8]

Mick,for a meat and potatoes Series 70, you could send it off to the Colt Custom Shop and get a few modifications like I had done on this one - lowered ejection port, Commander hammer and grip safety, front night sight only...

BMR, that's a fine-looking weapon. My S70 takes a nice bite out of the web of my hand; not sure whether it's my hand getting caught between the top of the safety and the bottom of the hammer during recoil, or whether it's just abrasion from the lower edge of the grip safety, but it does leave a mark.

Perhaps a Commander hammer and safety would be a solution...? That safety looks like it would provide a bit more protection there, while preserving the classic look.

[Mick_In_Texas]

I sure hope you are right Mick. I am one of those guys who was a die hard Colt fan until I bought SS Commander back in the late 80s or early 90s. I loved the gun, but could never get it reliable enough to carry. After getting fed up with paying big bucks to gunsmiths and then having to prove the gun in with HydroShok each time I took it in, I gave up and bought a Kimber Custom II.

After reading about the Colt Series 70 reissue, I have ordered one and should recieve it next week. I too am getting away from the bells and whistles and am reverting back to the plain Jane 1911 with a few personal mods that are spacific to my needs.

I'll let you know.

Kimbers, Wilsons, ALL brands are good; all brands have duds. I know frustration: my O1991 Colt shoots consistently low and left, and will need work if I keep her. She's the only gun I've ever had that doesn't/didn't shoot straight. I have, and have had, a FEW. That said...

I think Colt is still a good, fairly-reasonably priced arm. My USGI from 1918--although obviously I don't shoot her much, she's been shot--my O1911 WWI Repro, and my Super 38 Govt Model are EXCELLENT. Flawless and dead-on for what I need to do with them. So is my RIA and so are my two Springfields. I so hope my Series 70 Custom is as good as the three! I like a basic one, myself, but obviously lots of fans and afficiandoes like the high-ends. I can't afford them, and mine are more or less working guns: CHL carry, carry on several large pieces of Texas land I have access to, where you're pretty much on your own as to various critters that might want to do you harm, bedside guns for self-defense in the event... Colt's three-dot sights are VERY good. Friend likes Auto Ordinance, that's cool, more power to him; but he knows my brands perform. Absolutely. I hope you have VERY good results, just like I'm hopin' for myself, with your coming 70!!!

Mick

[Mick_In_Texas]

Mick,

We're guessing your new Series 70 Custom Replica stainless was sent overnight shipping... so is there any chance you'll have her for this Saturday? Is this going to be an entire weekend filled with more a-n-t-i-c-i-p-a-t-i-o-n! ;)

Cliff

Haven't heard since Wednesday... If I don't, tomorrow, will have to hit him up (the dealer). Some folks are only shipping stuff once a week, due to the price of gas and diesel. I know my payment cleared, so... ANTICIPATION into next week! If I get her next week, doubt I'll get to shoot her until after Sept 6: gotta go to my dad's for Labor Day next weekend. My FFL's a fair ways from work, but, CAN get there and back during my hour lunch. Prefer goin' on a Saturday, 'cause he's good folks and I like to visit with him... so, since I gotta stay home next Sat and go to my dad's on Sun, due to rent and once-a-month pay from the state of Texas, might not get her 'til a week from today.

Definitely will let you all know what she's like, even if there's a delay (I don't have net access at my dad's place)! YOU take care and be safe, Bro.

Mick

[Mick_In_Texas]

Mick,for a meat and potatoes Series 70, you could send it off to the Colt Custom Shop and get a few modifications like I had done on this one - lowered ejection port, Commander hammer and grip safety, front night sight only, long 3 hole aluminum trigger, flat serrated MSH, dehorned and matte finished.

Hmmm... haven't considered the Colt Custom Shop prior... I DO like the matte finish on the stainless steel... and dehorning, for SURE. Also, I do like a flat MSH; and if my 70 is good, other than stocks, I'd like to keep her ALL Colt's... having "cut my teeth" on the longer 1911-style trigger, I like it, too, although I can live with the shorter A1 version. The ejection port... some of mine are lowered, some are original. I can live with either. But I do like some of the mods, and the idea...

You just gave me an idea for the future, sir. That is one beautiful Colt!!! You should submit for John's 2009 calendar! Several presented here would be good contenders for that!

You take care and be safe.

Mick

[BMR]

Thanks for the compliments on the pistol, guys. I wish I were better at taking pictures. I'll have to just keep experimenting.

It has the same grip safety as the Delta Elites of years ago, which I specifically asked for. If you do want Colt to install a grip safety like that, make sure you ask for that safety.

[Mick_In_Texas]

On the left side of the slide, she's stamped "COLT'S MARK IV/SERIES 70"... I LOVE this: what got me "started" on the 1911 was that work buddy's ORIGINAL Colt's Mark IV Government Model in blue... as many of you know. Has the arched MSH, which y'all know; the short -A1 trigger, ss finish is just as beautiful as my Colt's Super 38, this one's "little sister", except Series 80... This one has the beautiful double-diamond checkered wood grips, they're well-made and well-finished, and as much of a grip pimp as I can be... well, okay, AM... THESE may just work for a while, although I've got a couple of sets of those Texas stars for her, too, should she need a little variety...

Hammer is perfectly aligned on this Series 70, my Super 38 and M1911 almost imperciptible a little to the right as I recall... barrel/slide machining looks perfectly straight and centered, too. I've had good luck with all FIVE (as of today) of my Colt's... sights, to my surprise, aren't three-dots, but they're good enough, I believe, they're the same size as the three-dot sights on my O1991 and Super 38. Just empty pointing and aiming at things in my apartment, think they'll be just fine... Different to me, that's okay.

Took me a while to get her. Two hurricane responses in there, Gustav and Ike... we DID get a WEEKEND this weekend... it's bad. But, AT LAST, I'm glad to have THIS ONE!!! Recently sold one pistol, my P90, to a very happy buyer (they were excellent pistols, but I just didn't carry or shoot it much) and may sell two more, but THIS ONE... THIS is the .45 and 1911 platform I HOPE to use next year to renew my Texas CHL, and move to primary carry over Old Reliable, my ss Springer Mil-Spec. This one, like its sisters, FEELS like a Colt's... they just feel different, as I've said. Like the rest of mine, she'll fit my Galco... Hee hee...

Will try to get y'all some photos in a few days... WANT to go to my dad's though, I worked Gustav Labor Day weekend, didn't get a holiday... may not get to field strip, clean, and shoot THIS beauty for a couple of weeks. I want to see if she shoots straight... and functions okay... Magazines (2) look good, standard Colt's in stainless.

It's a BEAUTIFUL Colt's and a BEAUTIFUL gun. My FFL was wearing that old Colt's 1911A1 on his hip this afternoon, blued, holstered, he LOVES the platform, and that old thing is finish-worn but it WORKS. He carries it religiously. Old and works is GOOD... the platform was RIGHT in 1911. The caliber was RIGHT in 1911. I LOVE it. I wish I'd gotten into them YEARS ago... but, I'm into them NOW.

Thank all of you for your support over the years, the sharing of knowledge, the help and comments, helping me find and get my WWI Repro model, ALL of it. I love this place, and I thank John for making it. I am honored to know you folks, y'all are the salt of the earth. Whatever country you hail from.

I'll let y'all know how this beauty shoots in a few weeks, and I WILL be taking some photos SOON... I can't help it. Mine are pretty plain Jane, but I love them.

Y'all take care.

Mick

[d90king]

Congrats Mick glad you finally got your pistol. You better get some pics up soon. I have a feeling you are going to see the Gunny soon. ;) They are a great pistol and I am sure you will love it. I am going to use one of mine for a build soon. :p

[Mick_In_Texas]

Congrats Mick glad you finally got your pistol. You better get some pics up soon. I have a feeling you are going to see the Gunny soon. ;) They are a great pistol and I am sure you will love it. I am going to use one of mine for a build soon. :p

Hope to take a few tomorrow afternoon, in the OEM version. I have so many nice stock sets, though... but the OEM's are SO NICE. It's WELL-MADE and fitted! Well-lubed, too. I hope she's solid. I DO carry a Colt's in my truck on my road trips: the Super 38 Government in ss. Around town, my truck gun's an RIA .45 1911. But, this Series 70 Repro... sir, I already LOVE IT! It's beautiful. I love mine without the firing-pin blocks.

You enjoy yours, too, king... and I want to see that build when you get it finished! Um, so does our "drill sergeant"... LoL... I love all y'all's firearms here. ANY 1911 that works, is just beautiful to me. The platform is SOLID. It WORKS. It's GOOD. In fact, it's GREAT.

The front sight on this one... at least indoors... has a unique angle on it, where it appears silver or grey in indoor light, rather than black, between the black uprights on the rear sight. That is VERY fascinating to me, I'm anxious to get it outside and on the indoor range! May NOT need those dots... it's easy to get on target, at least so far... never really seen anything quite like this. Oh, the sights are blued, the only blued part on mine. Just interesting concept, I'm pretty easily entertained... and I'm REAL entertained by this beauty!

Mick

[Tusker]

Mick, I am sure you will enjoy it as much as I enjoy my two originals. Although the nickel one had the frame replaced by Colt, I still consider it a original. But, not really I guess. My blue one shoots on par with my gold Cup. Hard to believe. :D Mighty fine piece you have coming. CONGRATS!!! Feel free to contact me if you need some REAL stags for her. :D

[Rio Vista Slim]

The front sight on this one... at least indoors... has a unique angle on it, where it appears silver or grey in indoor light, rather than black, between the black uprights on the rear sight. That is VERY fascinating to me, I'm anxious to get it outside and on the indoor range! May NOT need those dots... it's easy to get on target, at least so far... never really seen anything quite like this. Oh, the sights are blued, the only blued part on mine. Just interesting concept, I'm pretty easily entertained... and I'm REAL entertained by this beauty!
Mick,
In this day and age of white dot sights, plain sights seem to be an aberration.

However, in my youth I owned several original Series 70 Government Models. Compared to today's taller sights, I'm surprised I was ever able to hit anything!

I think you'll find that your experiences with your other Colts will have 99% of the battle won. I find that combat-distance shooting makes very little difference. It's only when I'm concentrating on accuracy testing that a little more concentration is needed to align the plain black sights for consistent hits.

Enjoy your new pistol! I have both the blue and stainless versions, and I love 'em.

[clughog]

Congratulations, Mick! :D

[Mick_In_Texas]

Mick, I am sure you will enjoy it as much as I enjoy my two originals. Although the nickel one had the frame replaced by Colt, I still consider it a original. But, not really I guess. My blue one shoots on par with my gold Cup. Hard to believe. :D Mighty fine piece you have coming. CONGRATS!!! Feel free to contact me if you need some REAL stags for her. :D

"Stags"... stocks? I love good, handmade stocks... Back to Series 70s, my work buddy's, an original from the late 1970s/early 1980s, a "real" Mark IV Government Model, he had that .22LR version, encountered a rabid dog, emptied one mag and had to reload to take care of the situation... went back to Western Auto (can you imagine!) and traded the fairly new Ace for that Mark IV in .45. He's like us: figured that was the way to go, and so was the platform. Colt's bluing is second to NO ONE. My O1991 has a BEAUTIFUL finish, it's just off on the sights, shoots low and left... But when I picked up my Series 70 Repro today, my FFL told me he thinks he can fix that; my dealer in Virginia also has an O1991 that did the same thing.

The sights are a cross between the mil-spec minimals on my M1911 from 1918, my WWI Repro Model O1911, and the excellent three-dots on my Super 38 Government and my O1991. While I've learned that Colt three-dots are subtly way better than those on my Rugers, Springer, and Taurus, I so far think this Series 70 sights will WORK for me. The 1911 is about the best "point and shoot" pistol on the planet; but I've never used one on my CHL shooting string: it was the P90 Ruger, which I no longer have, and it was dead-on with the three-dots. I KNOW my Super 38 Colt's is dead-on, but I've always qualified with a .45ACP, and that's what I carry in a 1911... so, want to do the 2009 renewal with a .45 but in 1911 THIS time.

Hope to get this beauty on the indoor range within three weeks... gotta try to see my dad next week, 'cause didn't get to go Labor Day (that darned Gustav, and things are worse with Ike, we're still not through with that one, it came HERE, too)... but hoping first weekend October... trip to the indoor with my Series 70. And about 50-100 rounds of FMJ 230-grain .45ACP!

YOU and yours take care. Good folks here, we need a lot more of them in the world!

Mick

[Mick_In_Texas]

Congratulations, Mick! :D

Lots of "events" conspiring against me getting and picking this beauty up! We watch the Atlantic and Caribbean like hawks at work... my FFL battened down last weekend, and so did I, as we did have the tropical storm side of Ike right here in town... darn thing went up IH 45 to Tyler as a Cat 1 hurricane, shut down about half our district, and was too big, tore up too much in our state... I was working 'til nearly 6 yesterday, trying to move food and barricades to Beaumont... Oh, well, just glad I was finally able to lay my hands on this beauty! My FFL's had it for a couple of weeks, I just couldn't get there to get it...

I still love my others. The RIA stays in my Tundra all the time. My Springer Mil-Spec stays beside my bed, with my GP100 Ruger. The Mil has ridden many a day and mile on my hip. My Colt's Super 38 Govt goes on the road with me. But I hope this Series 70 becomes my Number One: hip, truck, travel to Austin, CHL carry... There's just something about a Colt's, and yet I still stand for my RIA and Springers. They're ALL good guns. My Taurus and Ruger, too. But I LIKE the idea of "carrying" a "Colt .45"... and I hope this one is IT.

When, hee hee, of course... as my safety coordinator at work and our local DPS call it... I'm "packing"... LoL There you go. Hope NEVER to utilize what I'm "packing", but I "pack" for many reasons...

Mick

[Mick_In_Texas]

Mick,
In this day and age of white dot sights, plain sights seem to be an aberration.
However, in my youth I owned several original Series 70 Government Models. Compared to today's taller sights, I'm surprised I was ever able to hit anything!
I think you'll find that your experiences with your other Colts will have 99% of the battle won. I find that combat-distance shooting makes very little difference. It's only when I'm concentrating on accuracy testing that a little more concentration is needed to align the plain black sights for consistent hits.
Enjoy your new pistol! I have both the blue and stainless versions, and I love 'em.

Yeah, the sights on my Series 70 are "different"--but, general targets, I've done real good a couple of times with the mil-specs on my RIA and my O1911. GI45, too. Don't want to use one of those, for my CHL next March, though: but I think these on the 70 will work. Just sighted down in almost near darkness on the clock in the living room, and even THEN, seemed to be on target.

Frankly, in a bind... "Wind Talkers" shows a good example of a military-issue .45 being used defensively as a "point and shoot" gun... the 1911 to me is about the best I've handled/shot. Even in the early 1900s, Mr. Browning KNEW shooting and guns, and to me, the 1911 is very ergonomic and very easy to get on target. It fits my hand, mind and eye. Slender, compared to my Taurus PT92AF, and my former Ruger P90. I have some nerve damage in my hands, but the 1911 lets me compensate, it just works. Had no prob qualifying with my P90 in 2000 and 2004, love the .45 round, and yet... I can shoot a 1911. Anything unnecessary--like the "firing pin block" on my O1991 and Super 38 Govt--just irks me. I don't need it. It's just "extra stuff" to me. I'm perfectly comfortable with my M1911, my WWI Repro, my Series 70, my RIA, my two Springers without the ILS MSHs.

I worked to get this baby. But, I'm real happy so far! You're one of the salt of the earth folks here, among many... thank you for your support. You folks have taught me. I'm still learning... nobody knows everything, although Tuner almost comes close... had someone at work tell me lately I "know everything", I don't, not at work, not about my guns. I just try to know what I need to know, and help others just like y'all help me if I can.

Beautiful Colt's, this Series 70/Mark IV Repro!!! I love First Lady and my O1911 a hair bit more, but THIS one is a beauty!!! We'll see how she shoots in a couple or three weeks...

Mick

[myanof]

Congratualtions Mick. I recieved my Series 70 Reissue a couple of weeks ago. I took her to the range and blasted away with 100 hardball reloads. Everything fed, fired, and ejected perfectly. I was very impressed with the fit and finish, accuracy, and feel. It's good to have the Old Colt feel in my hand again. The cosmetic quality came in so good I almost feel guilty carrying this gun.

I planned on making a few changes, but at this point I might just keep her stock, except for the grip change I made.

Good Luck, and I know your new gun will work out just fine.

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[jdc1244]

Beautiful Colt's, this Series 70/Mark IV Repro!!!

Mick

A belated congratulations and enjoy!

I've owned my S 70 reissue since last November. Not one problem or failure with different kinds of ammo and three different shooters.

May you have many happy years with your Colt.

[myanof]

A belated congratulations and enjoy!

I've owned my S 70 reissue since last November. Not one problem or failure with different kinds of ammo and three different shooters.

May you have many happy years with your Colt.

Did you make any changes or is it stock?

[India0311]

Congratualtions Mick. I recieved my Series 70 Reissue a couple of weeks ago. I took her to the range and blasted away with 100 hardball reloads. Everything fed, fired, and ejected perfectly. I was very impressed with the fit and finish, accuracy, and feel. It's good to have the Old Colt feel in my hand again. The cosmetic quality came in so good I almost feel guilty carrying this gun.

I planned on making a few changes, but at this point I might just keep her stock, except for the grip change I made.

Good Luck, and I know your new gun will work out just fine.

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Man those are very nice stocks...

[Mick_In_Texas]

Did you make any changes or is it stock?

Until I shoot her the first time... I think I'll leave her like she is. Just like Colt's made her. That's the reason I haven't taken photos of her, she's just like she came, so far... I LIKE the double-diamond rosewood stocks, I like the ss finish... outside of my Colt's M1911 from 1918, and my O1911 WWI Repro, my Series 70 is the ONLY "box stock" one I've got... including my two Springers, my RIA, my Taurus, my Ruger GP100. I am a "grip pimp", but I like it like she is. Basic, solid, functional, good stocks OEM... trigger, ejection port, all of it. Solid weapon, straight from Connecticut.

If she shoots accurately, she may be the only box stock pistol I carry soon. I likely will try to protect those rosewood stocks, in some way... but so far, they feel good. I like a smooth, yet these are GREAT. Colt's did a great job on this one!

I'm not used to those "short" -A1 triggers, but can definitely live with it. It's a good gun, so far. I'm very happy that I got her. So far. She'll be on the range in a couple of weeks, break-in with some 230 FMJs. If the sights work out there, reckon she'll be on my hip soon and also on the range for Texas CHL in February or March.

I just LOVE having a 1911 Colt's with "Mark IV" rollmarked on the slide!!!! And the Series 70. Even the arched MSH... which I converted my RIA to, a long time ago. I think THIS one, needs to stay OEM. That's rare for me! There you go.

You and yours take care and be safe.

Mick

[myanof]

Man those are very nice stocks...

Thank you, they are Cocobolos from woodgrips.com. The Rosewoods that came on my Colt are not bad, but I already had these and I like them better.

http://www.woodgrips.com/