Sidearms & Scatterguns Help on offer advice on custom IDPA build

[*greenhorn*]

I have a friend looking to sell his custom build 1911, he is short on cash i have some extra, im not going to say what his $ is but is my offer of 1200 too much or to little, i don't want to screw him. i don't know any one i would trust where i am to ask this.

here the pic, known specs below....

shes all SS

its a colt MK IV
anbi safety
extended tang
stippling job is stupid aggressive
custom grips
skelie hammer
trigger job, 2.8 pull
slide been hand lapped, feels like butter
all SS
ramped barrel with 2 port compensator, not bushing, a thread/index on
the slide spring is lighter, don't know what #
polished and hand filed sear / hammer
stippled slide release different don't know maker
different trigger don't know maker
hand lapped barrel, cant rember maker starts with "b"
mag well
Aim point comp X
the base i dont know maker.

10 ss mags with bumpers
one of thoes comp holsters with 3 retention mag holders

dam gun right on shoots better than my .45 1911 its a nice one in my book

 

[Tucsondave]

Re: Help on offer advice on custom IDPA build

buy it. IMHO,for a fun shooter at that price you can't go wrong. Hell, sell off the sight and you'll be even better off

 

[damit]

Re: Help on offer advice on custom IDPA build

If it shoots good for ya, Its worth every bit of $1200 IMHO

 

[prairiefire]

Re: Help on offer advice on custom IDPA build

I would say it's a bargain - get it.

 

[427Cobra]

Re: Help on offer advice on custom IDPA build

That Pistol is not IDPA legal, so don't buy it thinking you have a ringer of a pistol to compete in IDPA with.

 

[*greenhorn*]

Re: Help on offer advice on custom IDPA build

427 why is it not, i thought it would fall in to the open class?

 

[Downzero]

Re: Help on offer advice on custom IDPA build

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Cowboy1978</div><div class="ubbcode-body">427 why is it not, i thought it would fall in to the open class? </div></div>

I think what you mean is open <span style="font-style: italic">division</span>, which is USPSA or IPSC, not IDPA, which does not have an open division.

IDPA does not allow compensated guns, scopes, nor guns as heavy as that one, and so that gun would not be legal for any IDPA division. That gun would also not be competitive in any division of USPSA, although it would be legal in Open (a single stack mag cannot seriously compete with the guys who have 29-30 rounds of 9mm major in their 170mm mags).

That gun is basically a 25 year old USPSA open gun and its current competitiveness, if at all, is limited to steel challenge, and even then, it depends on the caliber. If it's a .45, it's basically a useless relic as far as competition is concerned.

There is no need for a "custom" gun for IDPA as it is a sport where gun modification is very limited.

I would pass on that gun unless it was $500 or less.

Oh and I'm not sure, but it might be legal for some kind of bullseye competition, you'd have to check with someone who knows better.

 

[arborpro]

Re: Help on offer advice on custom IDPA build

http://www.idpa.com/Documents/IDPARuleBook2005.pdf
could be a good gun but,you just can't use it for IDPA

arborpro

 

[*greenhorn*]

Re: Help on offer advice on custom IDPA build

o OK well i don't know I guess that why the last time i was at BSF in Stark they said they didn't do open class in Idpa, i though it was they didn't do it or no shooters.

 

[*greenhorn*]

Re: Help on offer advice on custom IDPA build

He didnt take my offer he wanted 2-3 bills more, im not interested in to it that much but it was nice. Thax all

 

[Sgt. 0811]

Re: Help on offer advice on custom IDPA build

That's ok, you can do better.