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Old 04-02-2018, 12:46 AM
Doctor Grape Ape Doctor Grape Ape is offline
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Is there any information on the B1 to B500 special presentation pistols? What were they for, who got them, etc.? Anyone happen to have one?
Oh hey, I asked this exactly a year ago. Still don't know the answer but I figured I'd share this anyway. This gun got relisted on GB by a seller, it had been in a consecutive lot of 3 but this one got returned. The only reason I can figure out why it was returned is that it has a small blemish on the left hand grip where it looks like the clear coat has kind of cracked. The auction that had the lot of 3 indicated they were part of a larger shipment of 30 to GT Distributors in Nov. 1972. I haven't shot it, probably never will, but it's a neat little thing.



It's fun to put it next to other guns (5" 1911 above, Glock 43 below):



It's also good to see that whoever designed the magazine baseplate retainer had a sense of humor:

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