Way back when in ~1917 the USG created the Department of Civilian Marksmanship DCM to encourage marksmanship skills in case the bad guys acted up again. In modern times it has focused on youth development, marksmanship, training and gun safety. One of the functions they are authorized to perform by congress is the sale of old military weapons like the 1903 Springfield, M1 Garand and Carbine and finally, just this year the 1911. The US Armed forces replaced the 1911 with the M9 aka Beretta F92 starting in 1989 and these great weapons of past wars have been collecting dust ever sense.

They started a lengthy lottery process this year for the 1st batch of ~8000 1911s stockpiled in armories around the USA and other places. A lengthy paper process was required by congress to even enter the lottery. This past Sept they started accepting applications for the 1st batch of ~8000 1911s and they received ~20000 applications. They assigned a random numbers to each "qualifying" application and started the sale process in about Dec. I was one of the lucky ones who drew a low number and just finally extracted this beauty from the local FFL in the Peoples Republic of Kali-fornication.

This is a Remington Rand Frame with an Ithaca slide from 1943. It was typical business as usual that these weapons went thru arsenal rebuild when they returned from a war and the armorers did not keep all of the original parts together. So this "mix-master" as its affectionately called, is a typical example of a great 1911 that went to war, was returned to an armory and rebuilt. This beauty was refurbished at the Rock Island Armory at some point and is stamped with RIA.

I am a very happy and lucky guy to have had the opportunity to qualify for and purchase this piece of US History

* Last updated by: cruderudy on 3/8/2019 @ 1:33 PM *

Rudy..Is there anyway to trace back the serial number to see who it was originally issued to ?

Thanks guys - she is a real beauty

Chrly, some of the guys on the CMP1911 forum who are x-active duty and old school seem to have a few personnel connections into old US Army and USMC staff and records. To my knowledge there are no open sources with details of old records like who was issued what/when. The paper records may be somewhere but I don't know any details.

All of these are reworked or rebuilt in the past - the one I received is the Service Grade condition the best just below Auction level. On the open collectors market there are lots of original 1911 available with pedigrees but they are way above the price I am willing to pay.

I shoot my old guns, some not a lot but this one is gonna get a workout tomorrow.

you done good crude.

That’s just way too cool Crude! Congrats! I’m assuming it’s .45 ACP?
I carried one with live rounds for bivouac training at Fort Knox as part of the 5th Armored Cav. cadre training AIT trainees at Mt. Eden. Of course everything else shot blanks, but there were artillary simulators that could take an arm off, and other ways a trainee could go berserk for whatever reason...thus the 1911’s for the cadre (just in case, for safety). Great memories from ‘74-‘77! Again congratulations!!

Man that is awesome! I'm a huge fan of the 1911 (I've got a few), and I remember reading in the news about the lottery to buy these. Congrats on making the cut sir!

Yep Nice win.. You beat the odds for sure with that one !!
I Shot my daughters' Springfield Armory 9mm, 1911, at the range the other day.. Improved my group in the first few rounds.. I usually shoot a S&W Shield 9mm. I am by no means a shooter but that thing was nice.. I had been away from shooting anything for a long time, maybe 50 yrs , and then a friend was murdered while riding home from my place. After spending some time with detectives who were investigating I flat told them I had ridden weaponless for teh last time . He did not disco urge me. Been over two years and not a clue as to who killed my friend. ( Hwy 49 up around Sonora.)

Yep Nice win.. You beat the odds for sure with that one !!
I Shot my daughters' Springfield Armory 9mm, 1911, at the range the other day.. Improved my group in the first few rounds.. I usually shoot a S&W Shield 9mm. I am by no means a shooter but that thing was nice.. I had been away from shooting anything for a long time, maybe 50 yrs , and then a friend was murdered while riding home from my place. After spending some time with detectives who were investigating I flat told them I had ridden weaponless for teh last time . He did not discourage me. Been over two years and not a clue as to who killed my friend. ( Hwy 49 up around Sonora.)

Sorry to hear about your friend Chrly. I dont blame you for carrying I would too. I have a Shield in 40 S&W and its a very nice package. I carry it in the Alien IWB rig when I need to.