Kimber blk rubber stocks Colt hardchromed grip screws Stainless Colt thumb safety Chip McCormick trigger Ed Brown sear and hammer Flat, 20LPI-checkered, M/S housing Wolff 18.5lb conventional recoil spring Wilson Shock Buff in place Colt E-nickled magazine release Colt E-nickled slide stop lever Wilson 'drop in' Grip Safety (It did!) Skateboard Tape on front grip strap Gunsmith, Scott Mays, added the fixed sights. First time I took it out another guy had a Kimber.45 (at better than twice the cost of mine) that was also brand new. Oh yeah, and I got rid of the magazine (suckered Curly Cole into taking it for his Springfield) and got Chip McCormick (sp?) after-market mags. The only things I did to my Rock Island was to dump those really ugly smooth grips and put a set of Sarco Double Diamond wood grips on it, and clean the bejabbers out of it and lube it with Frog Lube. Has demonstrated track record of holding its value over the years, even with moderate use, where the RIA will depreciate pretty quickly (just a shooter). And a review in American Rifleman: (article is pretty good, except for author calling it a 1911 instead of a 1911A1 with series 70 mods) In fact, it's a little better in some respects - no longer do they use the collet barrel bushing, all of them come with stainless barrels, better sights than the original Series 70 production (and the RIA Armscorps guns), and a few other tweaks. Colt has been producing 'Series 70' new guns for several years.
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