I got this pistol because I wanted a Colt Officer's ACP type and didn't want the New Agent/Defender Series 90. Pretty sweet guns, something about them that just doesn't quite do it for me. Anyhewwww, came along this M1991A1 Compact (it's a cheaper Officer's ACP) at a very decent price so I snapped it up. It's cheap enough that I might consider having some work done to it. Maybe.
Where do we start? The M1991A1 series came out because Colt wanted to sell some cheap guns to people who couldn't afford the pricier models. Well, it's definitely a "cheap" gun. Plastic mainspring housing, godawful trigger (with lots of grit, creep, overtravel, heavy), thumb safety lever is stiff but positive, the black parkerized finish is even except for the weird, smooth darker black finish on the grip safety. Machining marks everywhere in the innards. It came with no box and only one 6-rounds mag (the original only came with one mag), so I bought 3-each of the blued Metalform 7-rounders and 3-each of the Mec-Gar nickel plated 6-rounders. The Mec-Gar nickel plated mags are smoother than a baby's bottom. I hope that the Metalform mags would work well, but that's what tomorrow's for at the range.
The gun itself has some minor wear on the very top of the slide. Very strange because there's no holster wear that I can determine. Some minor scratches at where the slide lock lever touches the frame above the trigger guard - typical reassembly marrings. Either the previous owner cleaned the hell out of the gun or it didn't have that many rounds through it. Other than the scratch at the frame indicating that the gun had been taken apart a few times, I don't really see any wear at all, not even muzzle blast wear.
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Where do we start? The M1991A1 series came out because Colt wanted to sell some cheap guns to people who couldn't afford the pricier models. Well, it's definitely a "cheap" gun. Plastic mainspring housing, godawful trigger (with lots of grit, creep, overtravel, heavy), thumb safety lever is stiff but positive, the black parkerized finish is even except for the weird, smooth darker black finish on the grip safety. Machining marks everywhere in the innards. It came with no box and only one 6-rounds mag (the original only came with one mag), so I bought 3-each of the blued Metalform 7-rounders and 3-each of the Mec-Gar nickel plated 6-rounders. The Mec-Gar nickel plated mags are smoother than a baby's bottom. I hope that the Metalform mags would work well, but that's what tomorrow's for at the range.
The gun itself has some minor wear on the very top of the slide. Very strange because there's no holster wear that I can determine. Some minor scratches at where the slide lock lever touches the frame above the trigger guard - typical reassembly marrings. Either the previous owner cleaned the hell out of the gun or it didn't have that many rounds through it. Other than the scratch at the frame indicating that the gun had been taken apart a few times, I don't really see any wear at all, not even muzzle blast wear.
