Sidearms & Scatterguns Anyone heard of...

[realspeed]

A Swenson 1911? supposedly old school.

 

[deadly0311]

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Old school 1911 builder.....builds a good pistol

 

[realspeed]

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ended up with a hard chrome one, with a squared off trigger guard pretty cool pistol.... from what i have found he was pretty innovative, supposedly made ambi safteys from scratch before you could buy them?

 

[Redcreek1]

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Armand Swenson was the original 1911 master pistolsmith and one of the first to make custom aftermarket parts.

Here is a good article from American Rifleman on Swenson

http://www.americanrifleman.org/articles/evolution-of-the-custom-combat-45/

 

[TheLlam]

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@realspeed
Is there a good story behind ...ended up with a (pistol)...?