What a beautiful 1911!

[vic2367]

sweeeet,,,

[Rule10b5]

Oddly, I just sold an almost identical gun a month or so ago. I traded my Colt Gold Cup in Bright Stainless towards a Nighthawk Talon. The Colt was a beauty, but I'm happier with the Nighthawk.

[righteousbarbarian]

Originally Posted by Rule10b5

Oddly, I just sold an almost identical gun a month or so ago. I traded my Colt Gold Cup in Bright Stainless towards a Nighthawk Talon. The Colt was a beauty, but I'm happier with the Nighthawk.

i like the looks of the Nighthawk guns but $2500? is that actually the price?

[dnar]

What a beauty! I'm still deciding if I should place a bid on it. Maybe I shouldn't since I just recently bought a gun.


rand

[Mtbkski]

I had a nickle coated Colt Python once. (Yeah I sold it like an idiot) Anyway. I had a love/hate relationship with the pistol. It looked so pretty. When I pulled it out of the range bag, people came over to check it out. It was an eye catcher. I was beautiful. But it was a bast*rd to keep clean and looking good. If your hand brushed against it, it showed the smear. Heck, if you breathed in its direction, you were wiping it down. I was wiping it down all the time. Get it out. Wipe it down. Show a Friend. Wipe it down. Put it away. Make sure you wipe it down. Yep, I loved and hated that gun all at the same time.

[Rule10b5]

Originally Posted by righteousbarbarian

i like the looks of the Nighthawk guns but $2500? is that actually the price?

Damn near; I paid $2300 or so for mine.

Is it worth it? Depends on your cash flow and what you're looking for in a 1911.

I've owned more than a few 1911s, and I've gotten tired of dealing with guns that are either finicky, inaccurate, have lousy triggers, or MIM parts that broke or wore poorly.

I wanted a gun that was going to work perfectly out of the box, be more accurate than I am, wear well, and look pretty neat, too. $2300 was worth it to me, at least.

[Frenchy]

Originally Posted by righteousbarbarian

Frenchy could it be that those are not scratches but just cleaning streaks that are catching the light?

If your buying it, thats what you can tell yourself, if you own it, thats what your going to make others believe, but if you really look good, those are shadows not smear marks, believe me, this person must have polished his gun before he pictured it, and made it as nice as he could. Just like on a car, its easy to make a polished curve, but it take expert work to get a flat surface to come out clean.
If you click on the picture, you will see it much more clearly.

[ALS]

A perfect example of a PIMP gun. Still pretty.

[BUCKMARK]

Being a "small time" Colt collector, I would be willing to bet that those light scratches are straight from the Colt factory. Colt made some great guns, and they still do. It is a very sad to say that many of the guns leaving the factory have blems and some of them are the same over and over again. I can't tell you how many Colt 1911's that I have seen with a slip of the polishing wheel. Blued guns with polished flats that have a disc slip somewhere on the gun that looks like ****. Colt will fix these problems, but it's sad to see them in the first place. IMHO Colt Mfg is in trouble. They havent even updated their website in years. The News section at Colt.com dates back to 2002 or 2004....I forget.

Colt makes a lot of odd ball guns that never make the website, and many guns that use parts different from what is known to be standard. I learned many years ago to NEVER say..."Colt never made a ______." Odds are, they did. This makes collecting Colt handguns very hard. It's easy to get taken on a deal.

What are these guns worth? Colt pistols are more like bidding on old muscle cars. They bring whatever the buyer is willing to pay. Most Colt pistols bring well over Blue Book value. I always pay for the guns I like, but walk away quickly if I see that other bidders want the same gun. I find it hard to compete with big time Colt collectors. With all of the great handguns on todays market, Colt handguns are more for collecting than they are shooting. I retired almost every Colt I own in favor of a more practical gun with less street value.

I LOVE my Colts, but I think the days of Colt being a powerhouse American gun maker are long gone. I hope I am wrong.

[Mity2]

I would love to chrome plate my 1911. But there are noone around here that can do it. I would even settle for polishing my 1911 (since its stainless), but i can't even find someone to do that!