Colt Delta Elite 10mm...

[03hemi]

B STS- Bright Stainless, you got a keeper!
Enhanced- means it's lightweight, meaning aluminum frame. This can't be one.
Correction: "Enhanced" means models have a flat top slide, flared ejection port and are notched under trigger guard? I can concure mine has this, but it happens to be a Lightweight too, I mis-spoke stating the definition of "E". Looking closely you can see the E features.

 

[SweetMK]

Here is the box that says "Enhanced" and the gun that goes with it,,

The previous owner swapped in the extended safety, but, that was all he did to it,,

He did shoot it often,, he had access to ammo,,,

 

[SweetMK]

Here is my BSTS box,,
and the gun

 

[bobsguns]

Very cool guns. Saw one in a Jacksonville, NC pawn shop a few years ago for a good price. Still kick myself for not buying it.

What was an Army fella doing in Jacksonville?

 

[AJ]

What was an Army fella doing in Jacksonville?

Got lost coming out of Bragg. How is the Mongolian B-B-Q there in J-Ville doing? Was pretty good when we ate there a couple of years ago.

 

[stansdds]

The only issue with the Colt 10mm 1911s, are the non ramped barrel/unsupported chambers. I believe they are still the only folks in the 1911 world who still do this. Even Dan Wesson wised up and went to ramped barrels in their 10mm circa 2009.

This is true. I'm guessing that Colt did not want to introduce the extra machining steps required for the receiver to use a ramped barrel into their 1911 production line. Fortunately, 10mm Auto brass usually has a pretty thick case head.

 

[ladder13]

I have a Kimber Stainless II and a SA Ronin in 10mm, both have ramped barrels.

 

[SAFireman]

If the serial number has the letter E at the end, then it was part of Colt's 'Enhanced' program. I don't recall any of the 1st Gen Delta Elites that were.

I did at one time have a NMGC Delta in Bright SS. I sold it years ago and it brought really good money.

 

[Dvus]

There are three stainless finishes that I know of that Colt offers. The normal satin finish, Bright stainless where the flats are polished and then the Ultimate Stainless where everything is polished. An "E" in the serial number will indicate the enhanced status and it can also be identified by a scallop cut behind the ejection port. There are a couple other minor details, but an aluminum frame is NOT one of them. I have an "Enhanced" GCNM in Ultimate Stainless and you better have dark sunglasses if you take it outside or you will go blind. It is a mirror finish. Of course all that extra polishing adds to the price tag.
I've had two Stainless Delta Elites, and although I liked them, I sold them because of the non-ramped barrels. Both bulged the brass so bad with factory ammo that the brass was unreloadable. I was too scared to run any full power 10mm through them.
Even so, the op's find is a great one for the price.

 

[Yendor357]

Cool gun Fuzz! If it was mine, I'd feed it a very limited diet of full power 10s. The 1911 was never designed for that much horse power. Oh, it'll work. For a while. I remember seeing pics of a cracked frame on a 1911/10M.

 

[stansdds]

Early production Delta Elites did crack their receivers. The crack was in the receiver rail, just above the cutout where the tang on the slide stop entered the magazine well. It was not a catastrophic failure and the solution was to mill away this portion of the rail.