Repairing Percussion Hammer Noses

Raven · January 25, 2011, 08:43:01 AM

I have several Ranger freinds and have seen several of their Colt 1911 Ranger commemeratives close-up and have dissassembled them as well. To say the least I am not impressed. Yes they have upgrades but the finish is not impressive and I may be an engraving snob but in my view the engraving is barely joueneyman level.
They're cool because they're Ranger guns not because they're Colts.

As for hammer noses....
How bad is the damage?
If you haven't allowed it to get real bad, pean the sides, clean-up the sides and face with a stone and casinite it!
I think we sometimes use a little overkill in our solutions to these problems.

Raven

Mako · January 25, 2011, 08:46:13 AM

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~Mako

Joe Lansing · January 25, 2011, 05:47:20 PM

Hoof Hearted, if you can't laugh at a wake, it's probably not worth going to. I dig humor.

J.L.

Raven · January 26, 2011, 03:59:56 PM

Mako,

Don't get me wrong, the Ranger Colt's are completely functional guns. Guns you could stake your life on!! The Rangers wouldn't stand for anything less!

As for set up they have adjustable triggers and ambi safeties and true to Ranger preference some have had the grip safety dissabled.

I don't like the finish they are not up to what I would expect from Colt and like I said before the engraving is barely journeyman level. In Colts defence they were built to a price point. The Rangers don't have a lot of money so the point of buying two is so that Rangers can sell one to a Ranger Booster to pay for both.

We were approached to build an engraved 1911 for the Rangers. They would like a Texas made gun. Which is why I was able to take them apart. Ordinarily a Ranger would never hand you one of their guns, even a friend.
Unfortunately the timing is wrong, for a run of guns for them, with the 1911 anniversary everyone is building 1911s this year and most of the parts are allready spoken for. We are also very busy, maybe next year. The cool thing for us and what would make them profitable for us is that we could sell a civilian version!

Raven

Mako · January 26, 2011, 05:11:28 PM

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~Mako

Raven · January 26, 2011, 08:25:58 PM

Mako,

Seems you know much more about them than I.

I didn't critisize the design, I critisized the execution!
If you visit the Ranger Museum you will see that Rangers love engraving but most wouldn't know good engraving if it bit them in the #$%. I don't belive the Rangers that I know will take offence to that, they buy what they can afford, and don't really know much about engraving.
Much like most of our cowboy shooting pards.

If there is any more to be said on the subject we should probably start a new thread.
Sometimes I can be one of the worst about hijacking a thread. Allthough thats probably how face to face conversations go as well

Raven

Mako · January 27, 2011, 01:46:52 PM

Quote from: Raven on January 26, 2011, 08:25:58 PM
If there is any more to be said on the subject we should probably start a new thread.
Sometimes I can be one of the worst about hijacking a thread. Allthough thats probably how face to face conversations go as well

Raven

Raven,
You're right, we have gotten way off track and we're not even close to being on topic. I'm going to save my text in case we start that subject again somewhere else and I'm going to clean this thread up by deleting a few things that have nothing to do with percussion pistols. It's probably just things you and I have any interest in anyway. If anyone read them earlier and wants the particulars they can PM me.

Regards,
Mako