Recent content by CJ

My Garthwaite Para is hands down my favorite, there are so many things that are “just right” about this build, it’s like Jim built it to fit my hand ......Hard to explain but it just feels better than anything else I’ve owned. 14rd mags are much more fun at the range too.....

Everything is great, pistol shoots fantastic and feels much better

I'm not sure when Jim built this but I'm fairly certain it's been sitting in someone's safe for a long time, when I got it home I immediately field stripped it and there were signs of old dried up lube and the shock buff that was installed was brittle and hard as a rock, it also show hardly any...

I’ve been wanting to try a 1911 double stack or a 2011 for a while now and I really wanted to go with an all steel frame but for the most part the price/quality range was either low end or high end with not much in between, it seems there is a decent selection under $1,000 and a decent selection...

Just an update.......... I was able to get the slide to frame fit tightened up and now it's smooth as glass :) it also fixed the dust cover that was hitting the spring plug tunnel on the left side, basically the front right frame rail was bent/angled in .009, now everything is within .002-.003...

^^^^^^^^My thoughts exactly!!!!!! Here are the measurements Rear of slide .755 Front of slide .755 this was taken where the frame rails align with the slide while in battery. Rear frame .753 Front frame .743 In defense of both previous owners this pistol doesn't feel near as loose as it actual...