My First 1917, a Shooter

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Stopped my buddy's to take a look at a commercial 1917. It was one of several that he picked up at a local auction.

It's definitely been refinished and suffers from push off. If the rest of the gun looked anything like what I found under the grips, it would explain the heavy polishing, which removed most of the roll marks. All numbers match.

Despite its flaw's, it's actually not a bad gun, especially for free.99. I replaced the replica grips with a pair of Ken's stags.



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Yes, polished and blued but, not terrible. I do not have that serial in my data base.

I have many ACP revolvers. My reload is a long bearing surface, cast lead bullet, roughly 230 grains, over hardball doses of powder. That seems to work in my revolvers.

Kevin
 
Here are the grips that came with it. Pretty nice looking, but Iam guessing they're aftermarket. Condition is too nice and there's no serial number and escutcheons are gold.

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Please let us know how the push off repairs go.

I had that problem with an old .22 Outdoorsman with a hump back hammer I was buying and returned the gun. I had no idea what would be involved fixing it and it also had firing pin marks on the cylinder face, so decided not to mess with it.
 
Please let us know how the push off repairs go.

I had that problem with an old .22 Outdoorsman with a hump back hammer I was buying and returned the gun. I had no idea what would be involved fixing it and it also had firing pin marks on the cylinder face, so decided not to mess with it.

I probably could have fixed it with a different trigger and/or a fine stone.
 
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