Louis F. Alessi wrote:
Thanks to Dane, Dick Heinie, and of course Sara, who probably did most of the work! :grin:
Lou
Always a pleasure to work with the master, Dick Heinie. Amazing how good Sara is getting at building a real gun :grin: What Luigi didn't mention is the flowers that he had to send to Sara so she would lite a fire under the "back room" :grin:
Either that or Lou is stalking Sara :smile: More info than any of us need I suspect :roll:
The basic metal work was done by Dick, scallops, serrated flat top.
I fitted a match BarSto, cut if flush to the bushing and gave it a recessed crown. Added a Browning recoil system with a 16.5 Wolf and a CP buff. Replaced the beavetail with a Wilson, fitted and melted it into the frame and added Heinie Straight eight sights (working with Colt's mess on the machining in both cases), hand serrated the back of the slide, ejector, and extractor @ 50lpi, recut the high grip and trigger guard, fitted and melted the main to the frame, all by hand, added a 3.5# tool steel trigger system with Vedecki solid trigger. Added a Brown tactical thumb safety and melted it and the Colt slide release heavily. I cut down and hand checkering @ 50 lpi a stainless mag release to replace the nickled one Colt installed. The hand melt included squaring the slide to frame after the barrel was fit. The gun as finished is all stainless and has hand polished flats and a bead blasted frame and rounds. The carry melt included, taking off all the edges from bushing to mag well and everything inbetween in addition to the bottom of the presentation Hogue coco bola grips I picked out for Luigi. Add hex head screws all a round including the mag release. Through in a reliability package since I changed everything in the gun and Lou is set to go (build more holsters for me :grin: ). All pretty standard fare for a BCP best grade gun with the addition of the maestro's special touch from Heinie Speciality.
Thanks all for the comments!
Bob, I still need to shoot your gun
AGAIN to get it right..easy big fellow or I'll bill you for the extra ammo :grin:
Lou's Colt is a nice gun now. I wouldn't go looking for another to build on....but those darn old style roll marks are
AWESOME aren't they!
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