Mick,
That is very good. Obviously, it functioned perfectly???

In the photo it shows the piece cocked and locked. Just the way John M. Browning designed it to be carried.

With it cocked and locked,there are 5 safeties in place.

The 1911 platform has been around well over a century and cannot be improved upon.

In '68, a contractor that was doing house renovation came to police HQ with a 1911 he found in an attic. It was cocked and locked with a full magazine. Documents showed that it had been stored that way since about 1920.

I took the old ammo out,basically lubed the gun,put fresh ammo in and it functioned perfectly.

Springs had been compressed for about 50 yrs.

Wayne