I bought this Argentine 1927 .45 about 15 years ago. traded it off to a buddy probably 6 or 7 years ago and regretted it ever since. ran into him early last week and mentioned it and he showed up the next day with it. not a lot of original finish but tight as a drum. he says it still shoots as well as it did when I owned it the first time. all matching numbers but the magazine. this is the post war model made in Argentina on old colt machinery. it is marked 11.25mm unlike the original 1927s which were made by colt. lee

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Ah, the prodigal gun returns.

I had a nice Colt 1927 Argentine model that was made in Hartford. Markings are quite different from those made on Colt machinery in Argentina. Traded it off after I bought a SIG P220, and regretted it later.

Had a Ballester-Molina as a companion piece for the 1927. Got rid of it after the 1927 went. Just mentioning it because one would be an interesting piece to display with your 1927. Prices are still fairly low on them.

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I love the worn grips on that pistol! Just a lovely old gun all around.

It's a nice feeling when a friend comes back home. BTDT
Lovely piece.
Do you order the 11.25x23 ammo from Argentina? :>D

I passed up an Argentine 1927 in a pawnshop years ago and have regretted it ever since. Finish was badly worn, but it seemed fine mechanically.

Yours is a nice old treasure.

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Oh well, what the hell.

I bought a 1927 about 20 years ago. It ran like a top, until I cleaned it! I detail striped it and it was full a black granular "sand"! I scrubbed it, greased the critical parts, and assembled it. It jammed on every shot of hard ball and everything else. Disassembled it again, replaced every spring (even the thumb safety spring, put in an 18 pound return spring and a Wilson 4 leaf main spring. Replaced the barrel bushing with a Gold Cup fingered match bushing. Reassembled the gun, took it out the back door and it fed a mag of ball and a mag of cast SWC and a mag of Speer hollow points. Took it to the range, and it did about 2" at 25 yards. Never did sell that gun, I gave it to #2 son for his 21st birthday. At 33 he got married a couple of years ago. He has slowly taught his wife to shoot with that gun. She shoots it better than he dose, but much slower. It still has almost no finish, and the grips that came on it were some piece of soft pine like wood that mar very easily. I gave the gun to him with a nice set of Colt rosewood grips and a small baggy of maintenance parts, with the ugly grips. He puts the ugly grips on it when he wants to fool people into thinking, "That ugly gun will never hit anything!"

God Bless John Moses Browning!

Ivan

didn't know if you were kidding or not... but it's a .45ACP handgun... some countries always use the metric system.. I believe Norway called their version of the Browning designed 1911 an 11.25mm also.. That is one version I'd always wanted to purchase, but never saw one.

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Norway's is called a 1912 and has a different "L" shaped slide release. In WW II Norway was occupied by the Nazis and they used Norway's equipment and made about 600 1911-12's with Nazi proofs. My understanding is these have a standard slide release. They made a batch of ammo also, headstamped 1943.

Very cool- I've had a gun or two "boomerang" back and that makes them even sweeter. Congrats

11.25x23mm = a 45 ACP I was joshing; I had to work with the metric system for years and survived it, but I'm a Luddite and prefer inches and pounds. We don't want no metric rulers.

I love it when that happens. It is nice to get back one you regret getting rid of in younger years!