The one I let get away

[Mike Grasso]

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

Are you saying you have my pistol? He says hopefully…

 

[Doug M.]

Sounded that way to me.

 

[Mike Grasso]

Sounded that way to me.

Yes he does, I asked if he would sell it back but I understand completely if he won’t. I’m telling him the complete story of how she came to be.

Thanks all for helping me track her down.

Michael Grasso

 

[CALREB]

Hello Mike , hope you are well. If I remember right you ordered that gun around the same time a group of other firearms instructors ordered 20 or 21 4566s built the same way, from the PC in Nov/Dec 1997. the guns came in in March of 98. You had the foresight to order the only 4506 version. I always like it the best. It came with low mount Novaks but shot low so I remember installing the competition Novak rear some of us were using on the 5906 P/C guns we were shooting. I hogged out the inside of the sight so that it cleared the 9mm slide in the rear, dont think I had to do it as the sight was designed for the 45. I don't remember if it came D/C only and it was switched out or not, as D/C only was not approved for our Dept. I always wished I had ordered one to go along with my 4566 P/C. But those days are long gone...

 

[Mike Grasso]

Hello Mike , hope you are well. If I remember right you ordered that gun around the same time a group of other firearms instructors ordered 20 or 21 4566s built the same way, from the PC in Nov/Dec 1997. the guns came in in March of 98. You had the foresight to order the only 4506 version. I always like it the best. It came with low mount Novaks but shot low so I remember installing the competition Novak rear some of us were using on the 5906 P/C guns we were shooting. I hogged out the inside of the sight so that it cleared the 9mm slide in the rear, dont think I had to do it as the sight was designed for the 45. I don't remember if it came D/C only and it was switched out or not, as D/C only was not approved for our Dept. I always wished I had ordered one to go along with my 4566 P/C. But those days are long gone...

Im doing better, chemo is working and I’m slugging it out.

I purchased after I rec’d the MOV, my Dad wanted to get me something. It was a single purchase, no one else at the time ordered one. Took quite a while and I had the foresight to ask them to do a 4506 laser instead of 845. The Armory ok’d it when it came in and I shot it all the time. Since I was instrumental in getting the 45 approved the Armory kind of gave me the waver.

I understand the new owner isn’t interested in parting with it

Mg

 

[xtrtsqrt11]

A Springfield Professional, still have it and carry it.

Very understandable that you regret selling that 4506, but at least you did acquire a REALLY nice 1911!!

ETA, yes, I one day sold a SIG 220 that I would love to have back.

 

[soonerbb]

For me it was a Beretta 96....The only one they now produce is not legal in my Commie state.....

 

[Yendor357]

Part of the reason I’m sending the used 4566 that I recently acquired to the Performance Center is in hope they will blacken the slide. It’s a long shot, I know. They haven’t told me “no”, yet.

I’ve always liked a 2 tone pistol; The frame has to be stainless and the slide, black. I’ve seen it the other way around, and I don’t care for that.

 

[cherrypointmarine]

I too like the 2 tone look . What I do is look on flabby and find a slide , then buy the parts to make it complete . Then I send it all down to guzzitaco , who reblues the slide , sometimes cutting his PC cuts into it . When he's done I have a beautiful spare side , blued , that I can slap on a ss bottom end .

 

[6917sctygrp]

absolutely. I sold my Ruger Black Hawk .357 back in late 73 to buy the bride a vacuum cleaner. As it turns out got rid of the bride, vacuum cleaner, but only miss the Black Hawk.

 

[tygar]

4506

Still have mine. It's a nice pistol, but I never carried it. If one of the single/doubles, usually the 4513TSW. It is a nice practice gun.

 

[h2oboywp]

I feel your pain, I had a 4536, a couple years ago I found out it was a low production piece. I still have the s/n written down in my safe, maybe someone on here might have it.
Also had a 125th Anniversary N frame .45 that I got to build myself when I worked in the fitting room, presentation box, medallion and booklet....never fired. Kept it in a safety deposit box. Employee price was @ $300, sold it to Hoffman's in CT for $600 a few years later.

 

[Aukula1062]

Please don't get me started on the "one's that got away". That's why God makes alcohol in big bottles.

 

[Tntcwg3]

I too like the 2 tone look .

Add another like, my preference is the "reverse" 2 tone, dark slide on a stainless or alloy frame. My current stable of 2 tones include a couple of 745s, a Koenig DK1911, and a SIG P220 Match Elite TDA in 10mm.

 

[jughed440]

If narrowed down to Performance Center semi-auto models I regret letting go, there are only a couple..the Shorty 45, and the "LEW" prefix 945. There are a whole lot more PC revolvers that i would like to have back.