Good Deals on Colt Gold Cups

[dakota1911]

No, it is not how much are they or how much is mine. It is rather, even in todays "climate" there are, I think, good deals out there. The deals are in the 80's models, which many folk seem to think are bad for the reason they have a collet barrel bushing and they have the 80 series trigger parts. I bought one made in 1988 a couple years ago for $650 from a gun store I do business with. Below it is under my 1977 GCNM. I changed the grips on it tell them apart faster.

http://i39.photobucket.com/albums/e193/dakota1911/gold_cups1r.jpg

A few months later I found a SS GCNM also made in 1988 for about $750.

http://i39.photobucket.com/albums/e193/dakota1911/Colt_GCNMb_r.jpg

Both of these guns have been great by the way.

Both these pistols were pristine, and yes I have been playing with 1911s for almost 50 years, so I know what to look for most the time. Still, both were bought from small gunshops with instore gunsmiths. Both let me put them on layaway, and both gave me 90 days to return it if there was an issue (may not give you your money back, but would fix a problem). So if you don't know 1911s well, small gunstores with these options are out there, so you get time to take it a gunsmith, and shoot it. I always shoot mine within a week of getting it.

[SHOOTER13]

Nice Gold Cups ya got there, Dakota1911 !!

I too have an SS GCNM...here's a pic

http://i273.photobucket.com/albums/jj239/Gunnutz13/avatars/MY%20GUNS/COLTGOLDCUP45ACPsmall-1.jpg

She has close to 10,000 rounds through her since I bought her back in 1995.

( Each of the 35 firearms in my collection has a small binder which has the history, statistics, price paid, gunsmithing done, and # of rounds fired at each session )

To date, I have sold only two guns, both used Rugers ( Security Six / P89dc ), that I traded in to buy a new Ruger (Vaquero).

[t-bird]

Thanks for the Info and PICS Dakota.

[paul45]

( Each of the 35 firearms in my collection has a small binder which has the history, statistics, price paid, gunsmithing done, and # of rounds fired at each session )

Wow! And I thought I had OCD issues!! I feel much better about myself now, thanks!! :lm:

[dakota1911]

Hopefully I won't go to far off topic.

Pretty much the same here and it is the engineer in me. I have a binders and divided them into revolver (REV), pistol (PIS), rifle (RIF), shotgun (SHT), antique (ATQ), and other (OTH), as I didn't know where to stick my Thompson Center Contender, or my modern derringers. I follow the type with a number, and a lot of the guns are gone (sold / traded). I like the plastic (sheet protectors) as I can stuff sales receipts etc. in back of the data sheet. Later I moved to a spread-sheet on computers, keeping the binders. I have it in Excel but it could be moved anywhere, such a StarOffice on Linux or Solaris.

This allows me to quickly look up my GCNM I bought new in 1977 and find out its original cost, weight, max length, trigger pull etc. When I want to look at exact target results, chrono results, or notes while shooting, then, unfortunately, I have to go back to the binders, at least for now. Another thing I keep is the estimated current value. I want my wife to know that, if I am not around soon, although I bought GCNM new for about $350 in 1977, its market value as of last summer is at least $1K in our area of the country. After the last few gun shows I have gone to, and looking at examples on gunbroker, etc., I will probably raise the current market value.

Having a GCNM called pis0009 (for example) I can then tie all sorts of other data, like digital pictures and other files to it (like chrono or video files).

I work with computers, so not OCD so much as learning new skills as I am playing with a database that will do a lot more than just firearms. It is neat to find, just looking at a couple examples, my 1977 GCNM is 1056 grams and my blued 1988 is 1065 grams. These are measured with empty supplied 7 round (Colt) mags., but a recent study I did on the weight of a bunch of different mags makes me think I now have to go back and reweigh at least the guns I have without their mags, at least with 1911s. I sort of pulled this back in the 1911 thread.

[PhantomAce]

dakota:

"Four minutes to Wopner..."
(Rainman)

LOL

[dakota1911]

Shooter13 brought up a good point. Keep records. Write stuff down. I grew up hearing someone say "I could shoot a frog's eye out at 1000 yards with that rifle". A few weeks later the same old guy would say something like, "I couldn't hit the broadside of a barn with that shotgun".

So I will only bore you once, but know when I say the MY new Gold Cup Trophy is OK, and as good as the Gold Cups that came before then there are a lot of rounds and inspection that went into that statement. There is also almost 50 years of experience also.

[PhantomAce]

dakota:
You do realize I was just teasing you, right?

Agreed though, records are important.
I wish I had kept a log from the day I got my 1918 piece. But, alas, I did not.
Although, I can tell you, I already have an Excel workbook with sheets for the "new" commemorative-45, the "old" 1918 model, and the combat-9mm.
The only reason I started a sheet on the old one is so I can document the changes forthcoming, even though it is now out to pasture. (Trying to restore it to correct configuration, which means new "old" sights soon.)

Again though, your post wasn't boring, I just thought I'd rib ya a bit, that's all!
;-)