The rusted stock Colt barrel was replaced with a Wilson Combat Match Barrel some years ago. The Wilson barrel is machined from a forging and held to tolerances of 0.0005″. The barrel lugs were hand fitted to the slide and an oversize barrel link was used for a perfect lock up. The slide was also hand fitted and lapped to the frame. The gun is smooth like a bank vault door! Nowadays, a modern 1911 just comes from the factory like that! I have CNC envy. One of the problems old 1911’s had at the time was chronic failures to eject and stovepipes. One of the fixes was to bevel the inside and lower the ejection port by about 0.200″. Another was to lay back and relive the back side of the ejection port. Many 1911’s come stock like this nowadays but in the old school days, this was trick stuff. This slide has it all.
