Recent content by shortslide

Here is a typical target I have been shooting for the past three years. It was shot on Nov 24th 2017 with my full sized Wilson Combat 45acp Supergrade. Same thing every week, I would shoot at least four targets like this each Saturday morning. Top three targets (above each shoulder and the...

Thanks! I bought 10k rounds of the cci 40 grain standard velocity. These are not the only classic pistols I bought this month. Pictured below is a 98-99% three digit serial numbered 1938 colt woodsman match target. I would simply replace the large spring on the slide right? I can take a...

The chamber was spotless, but last night I cleaned the chamber, breach face, extractor, everything I could reach with a field strip. I even looked at everything with my 10x coin collectors loop - no pitting or carbon deposits anywhere. I had both M41's apart and closely examined thier...

Thanks! A senior member from the Colt forum spent about 45 minutes on the phone with me talking about Match Targets and especially about the Model 41. He told me the field barrel version in the shape mine is in was a very difficult combination to find - you just don't see the field barrel that...

Hi everyone. About 12 years ago I got married and moved out of NYC to the suburbs in lower CT. One of the first things I did was to purchase my first handgun, a Nickel plated Model 27 with a four inch barrel. I shot that once or twice a month for about three years, then purchased my first...