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kdh1949

2nd January 2012, 23:48

Hello. My name is also Ken (I see one of the most recent posts here is from another soul named Ken). I retired a year ago after 40 years with the federal government in Baltimore and moved back to my home town of Pittsburgh.

While I am very interested in guns, I haven't done any shooting in a long time (maybe 20 years). I do have a collection of handguns (mostly). Some are personal purchases and some are ones I inherited when my dad died in 1987. Among my collection is a Series 70 Gold Cup Colt (mine), a Series 70 Govt Model (nickel plated and genuine ivory grips -- my dad's), an Armscor M1911 AIFS labeled Taylors & Co. I bought last year, and a stainless-steel Essex frame and a whole box of miscellaneous parts I planned to build (or have built) into a bullseye gun before I got the Gold Cup. So I say I have 3-1/2 M1911s (the 1/2 being the unassembled parts gun). While my main interest has been the .45ACP M1911, I just ordered a SA XD(M)-5.25 in 40S&W for something "different."

I'm very much a procrastinator and have been meaning to find a local club and range and get out and start shooting again, since I now have plenty of time to do it. But now that it's winter, I don't plan to go out in the cold weather to do any shooting.

I came across M1911.org while looking for something else on the Net, found it interesting and registered.

AOCM.RET

3rd January 2012, 09:09

:wc:

Glad you decided to join us here on the forum Ken! Nice collection of weapons you have; hope you can get back to shooting soon.

Be safe

boehlertaught

3rd January 2012, 13:29

kdh1949

3rd January 2012, 21:24

Welcome to you Ken...and all your kin. Oh, and the other Ken too! I found a bunch of parts in my "drawer", about 1/2 of a 1911... and started putting a pistol together. Just was never good at fractions I guess. Gotta finish it cause I promised Traxxis I would get him to blue it...
My story is , I assembled all of the I wanted to put together a nice bullseye pistol back in the late 70s. At the time, a friend and mentor from my gun club was willing to build the pistol for me. He did a trigger job on a Colt 1911 I owned, so I knew his work to be quite good. His price would have been reasonable, too. Unfortunately, before I got together with him to build my gun, he was transferred out of the Baltimore area and I never heard from him again. Since by then I had a Gold Cup to use for the club's pistol league, I didn't have a need to have a custom build, so together with my being a procrastinaror, tile passed and I lost the drive to put all my parts together into a complete pistol. Especially since I no longer had someone I knew who could do it for what I considered a reasonable (meaning what I could afford at the time) price.