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Colt 1903 to a mini 1911

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October 25, 2024, 02:15 PM
Greymann
Colt 1903 to a mini 1911
Very cool, a 1903 hammerless .32 transformed to a mini 1911.



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October 25, 2024, 10:01 PM
inspcalahan
Roy really did an outstanding job on that one! Unique and functional.
October 26, 2024, 01:28 PM
elmer
Bob Loveless did a similar conversion to a Smith Wesson 41.

October 28, 2024, 11:51 AM
Oscar Zulu
That is cool!


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October 28, 2024, 12:09 PM
Jim Watson
An interesting project. Bill Laughridge of Cylinder and Slide went the other way and enclosed the hammer of a 1911, creating a giant's .45 pocket hammerless.

I still remember the Shotgun News ad for a Loveless M41 at a dealer about two hours drive time away. Before I could point up a trip, the store burned down.
October 28, 2024, 02:52 PM
darkest2000
This conversion took knowledge and skill to perform no doubt, but if I'm understanding correctly he basically added an exterior hammer to a Pocket "Hammerless" gun. Don't know if that's warrants to it being call a "mini 1911" consider that Colt also made a Pocket "Hammer" model during the same era.
October 28, 2024, 06:14 PM
j38
Amazing work! Thanks for sharing it.
October 28, 2024, 07:52 PM
lyman
quote:
Originally posted by darkest2000:
This conversion took knowledge and skill to perform no doubt, but if I'm understanding correctly he basically added an exterior hammer to a Pocket "Hammerless" gun. Don't know if that's warrants to it being call a "mini 1911" consider that Colt also made a Pocket "Hammer" model during the same era.



the pocket hammer was what I thought he was going for ,, guess not



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