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Update: The shop owner/smith confirmed that the scratch resulted from a tiny imperfection on the back of the slide stop, which he's lightly filed. A touch of Aluminum Black (thanks again, tlen!) hides the scratch nicely. Of course, it may come back in the course of normal use. I may also put on...

Shawn, my perspective on the scratch issue is essentially the same as yours, although my posts may not have made that clear. I do look forward to the day when this gun has the patina that results from years of use. My Kimber 1911 has that now, and when I look at the worn areas I reflect with...

Although deeply touched by the kind and sympathetic offers here, I know that I must deal with this situation as a man. My pistol and I, now scarred and shamed, must together face the future and resolve to become stronger through adversity. What we are, we are.

PPCSHOOTER, that's a sensible conjecture, but my state has no waiting period, and the pistol was ordered specifically for me by the gun shop, so nobody else would have found it lying around in a display case. Jim, that's a very kind offer, but I plan to scan the gun's past myself as soon as my...

I've carried it only in a padded, zippered bag inside my range bag. Nothing else--magazine, ammo, etc.--has been in the bag with it. I did actually think to check the bag, and it's got no debris or anything stuck to, or embedded in, the fabric. Nothing in the range bag is sharp or hard enough...

The shop owner checked it out, and I looked it over pretty thoroughly myself before starting the NICS paperwork. If there had been a scratch, one of us should have seen it. I never use the stop lever to release the slide on reloads, and no one else has handled it. Barring some sort of bizarre...

The "other idiot" theory certainly sounds plausible, but I'm still reluctant to believe that the shop owner and I both missed it, and that I continued to miss it for two days. I'll see what the smith says when I take it back in to the shop on Saturday. I'll definitely look into the Aluminum...

I may have been unclear: in stating that I've never disassembled the pistol, I meant to indicate that I have never removed or replaced the slide stop. The scratch just showed up. I have, however, done it dozens of times with my Kimber 1911 over the last couple of years, and I've put no...

I gave in to temptation (couldn't wait for a rebate) and bought a new Commander-size 1911, #108283, last Friday. It looked great and has shot reliably. However, Sunday morning I noticed the dreaded "idiot mark" scratch below the slide release--and I have not yet disassembled the pistol, so I...

I gave in to temptation (couldn't wait for a rebate) and bought a new Commander-size 1911, #108283, last Friday. It looked great and has shot reliably. However, Sunday morning I noticed the dreaded "idiot mark" scratch below the slide release--and I have not yet disassembled the pistol, so I...