The one I let get away

[Mike Grasso]

UPDATE
Found it, The new owner will keep it.



Every year I go back and look at the pic and say to myself I'm an idiot for selling her.

Years ago when I was able to carry a 1911 at work (LAPD) I funded it by selling my custom shop 4506 I had made while I was teaching at the academy. I had carried it for years, stupid stupid stupid.

Sold it here, then it disappeared.

Wish I could find it again, take a look, is it familiar?

Anyone else regret selling off something special?

 

[lihpster]

Oh, just all of them. Even the crappy ones.

 

[cougar015]

Yep. Wish I had a few I sold back along with some of my early Ford Mustangs.

 

[Dio]

Yup,
Had a Mtn gun in 45 Colt that I foolishly sold.....

 

[BAM-BAM]

A few........settled on Sig 220/245s for my carry .45s. That said I traded away a 4506 & 4505; big guns that just didn't fill a niche for me at the time, but I did hold on to my 4566! Goldilocks! Just right.

 

[Ethang]

If I had seen that when you had it for sale here I very well might have bought it... if I had I would let you have conjugal visits...

 

[Sevens]

my custom shop 4506 I had made while I was teaching at the academy

Wow Mike, that's a real beauty! I would love to hear more about it for sure. It looks like a 4506 stainless frame with a blued slide that the PC put their side cuts in to, running a 745 rear fixed sight and with MIM DA/SA trigger and hammer parts.

Did it have a Briley titanium spherical bushing also?

 

[dave1918a2]

Man oh man. If I had back those that I wish I had never sold I would be a wealthy man in Hog Heaven. Colts, S&W's, Winchesters, a Purdey 20 Ga SxS, Perazzi, Beretta, M1A's, Garands, Bowen custom, Freedom Arms, Savage and on and on. Oh well, live and learn and reminisce and think what could have been.

 

[ralph7]

So now all of you have money from these sales to buy whatever you want.
Isn't the cash the reason you sold to begin with?

Bunch of crybabies, I swear...

 

[chief38]

Back in the early 1980’s I sold my 2” RB M10 to fund a new M60 as my EDC. The M60 is lighter, smaller and just more conducive for a CCW gun and back then money was tight. Today I regret selling it! I do have very similar guns but the fact that I sold my first EDC stinks.

 

[Moo Moo]

Every year I go back and look at the pic and say to myself I'm an idiot for selling her.

Years ago when I was able to carry a 1911 at work (LAPD) I funded it by selling my custom shop 4506 I had made while I was teaching at the academy. I had carried it for years, stupid stupid stupid.

Sold it here, then it disappeared.

Wish I could find it again, take a look, is it familiar?

Anyone else regret selling off something special?

So what was the 1911 you bought that was funded by the 4506? Do you still have it?

 

[Yendor357]

Mike, you could buy a nice 4506, find someone who would apply a black DLC like coating on the slide. Jack First claims to have some of those rear sights. (<proceed with caution) Dawson may have a front sight. Your gun could be replicated.

If business or pleasure ever brings you to Jasper, look me up. We could grab lunch and go to my back yard and light up whatever you bring along.

 

[max503]

Nickle 29.

 

[wproct]

I have two lists. One is guns that I owned and let slip away from me. The second is guns that I had a chance to buy and didn't. That second list bothers me more than the first, because the first list at least I got to own for a little bit.

 

[peterdeb]

YUP!! Stupidly sold a Colt Combat Commander in 1981 ish for about $250.00. I was a poor shot and thought it was the pistol.

 

[BMCM]

Every year I go back and look at the pic and say to myself I'm an idiot for selling her.

Years ago when I was able to carry a 1911 at work (LAPD) I funded it by selling my custom shop 4506 I had made while I was teaching at the academy. I had carried it for years, stupid stupid stupid.

Sold it here, then it disappeared.

Wish I could find it again, take a look, is it familiar?

Anyone else regret selling off something special?

Yessir, there's indeed plenty I regret letting go of...

Lets see... Many years ago I traded off my Grandfather's FN/Browning Highpower for a NIB Ithaca M&P riot shotgun. Then traded that scattergun off having never shot it for some other fool thing that I don't even remember and it's of course gone too.

That PC4506 though, Oh I know that quite well. You see I bought it nearly ten years ago.

Here I posted after winning the auction and the initial inspection after delivery...
The PC 4506.... Has arrived!

And here is the thread on the Karl Nill grip fitting...
PC4506 Gets a new pair of shoes - Installing Karl Nill grips

Despite all the nonsense I wrote about changing the sights or this and that, in the end I decided to restore the piece as best I could to original configuration in better than new condition.

I took advantage Tony's skills at Micro Precision Welding to fill in the dings and gouges here and there which I hand filed back into the original bevels.

Replaced the rear Novak's Comp sight with a new part which I hand serrated to 40 LPI and after waiting well over a year for the backorder to clear, S&W finally sent me a new front sight.

Other than the grip upgrade the frame I left untouched.

The stripped slide, sights, stripped slide stop, extractor, manual safety body and ambi-lever all went over the H&M South in Jacksonville for Isonite-QPQ treatment.

The Old Girl Looks like this now...

And...

Well Mike, while I have no intention of letting this go, If you're ever down this way I will happily entertain visitation

Cheers
Bill

 

[Mike Grasso]

Wow Mike, that's a real beauty! I would love to hear more about it for sure. It looks like a 4506 stainless frame with a blued slide that the PC put their side cuts in to, running a 745 rear fixed sight and with MIM DA/SA trigger and hammer parts.

Did it have a Briley titanium spherical bushing also?

It was handbuilt by the custom shop, basically their 845 but lasered to say 4506 so I could carry it. And yes SBushing!

 

[Mike Grasso]

So what was the 1911 you bought that was funded by the 4506? Do you still have it?

A Springfield Professional, still have it and carry it.

 

[Shutthefrontdoor]

I need to agree with Sevens, and would love to hear more about this 4506. I've read about the "One" that was made for LAPD? I think. But please, the story needs to be told about that beautiful gun...

 

[BMCM]

By all accounts it's the only 4506 ever made by the Performance Center.

The frame is an M845.
The front front sight is also an M845 part.
Rear sight is Novak's Comp Sight.
Briley spherical barrel bushing.
M845 match barrel
Magazine catch nut, aftermarket Ed Brown.
The original sights were tritium lamped presumably by Tooltech Gunsight.
Every remaining part is standard 4506
Slide was also machined to accept a spring loaded decock body.

Cheers
Bill