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This is one of a pair of Colts made for a local deputy. He carried this one untill he retired. He still has the other pristine one. This is such a nice shooting pistol, very accurate, and 100% reliable.

What was done to it?
It just looks like an older stock Gunsite pistol.

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Is this little gem from the days when Ted was at Gunsite????

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Yes, I guess it is just another older Gunsite postol. My understanding is that the pair was sent to Gunsite about 1994. I really don't know all that was done to it . It has a slight carry bevel, Novak sights, front serations, and a raven. It is verry accurate, so accurate that when you shoot it you just can't help but smile. I know that I'll never sell it.

Maybe Ted will see this and tell us more.

It looks like the early pistols that Gunsite Specd out and allowed Colt to produce and sell.
Gunsite has done this with Smith & Wesson for their new 1911 and they just recently did it with Colt for the Series 70. (There are knives rifles and all kinds of things Gunsite licenses their name out for)

This may very well be a custom built up in the Gunsite shop but I am guessing it is one of the guns I describe above.. Who knows, it might have even been one of those and been purchased in the gunshop at Gunsite while someone was taking a class there.

I have one of the most recent Colt Series 70 Gunsite CCOs and like it but I expected more. I hear you used to get much better quality from the Gunsite name on your firearm... (They were built better when yours was built!)

I do not think these guns (guns produced by Colt, S&W etc etc (those who license the name)) have any work done at Gunsites shop BUT are built to Gunsites specs.

All that being said... I could be 110% wrong about this one you have posted and I am sure one of the people who actually know what they are talking about will chime in rather quickly...

If you like it that is all that matters and also you have a limited production piece of history with two of the great names in the firearms industry... Colt for the top 1911's out there and Gunsite for what they have done for training people and so much more.

I am gonna put my dunce hat on and go back to sitting in the corner now..... (I'm a WINDOW LICKER!!!) Im sure some people here understand that line.....

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J,

The Colt GSP's were a series 70. The one pictured above says series 80. I'm not sure what Gunsite used as their base guns. I think they used Colt and SA. I think the Colt's were a series 80 since that is what was available at the time. Of course, Ted would know exactly what was used then.

"Window Licker" must have originated in the Metro area. My brother was the first one to share that term with me after working in the area.

GDI

The recent GSP's were series 70 but I am pretty sure they did much earlier runs of them which were series 80, they did them with S/A as well as S&W as well.

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The S&W GSP isn't a bad looking or feeling gun. My wife and I found a pair of consecutive numbers and almost got them, but then we thought the whole matching pistol thing would be as bad as wearing matching shirts like, "Stupid" and "I'm with Stupid."

Anyway, I think the series 80 Colts and SA's with GSP logos were built by GS smiths and the new Colt series 70 and S&W GSP's were / are built by Colt / SW under GS license.

GDI you are most likely right on with that.

Thanks for the correction.

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You are correct sir.

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Your guesses are in the wrong century. This postol went through the Gunsite shop in 1993 or 1994. Long before Colt made its gunsite copy.

I have a "Yost era" Gunsite pistol nearly like Gary's that I used at Gunsite in Sept. 1994. I actaully sent my pistol (a Colt 1991) to Ted in advance of my arrival so that I could use it my class. At the time I think they had 3 levels of pistols, most of which were built on SA guns; a std GSP model (no beavertail, std. modifications for reliability), a Custom Carry (I think that's what it was called which has a beavertail, Novaks, etc...and is the one I have), and a full featured model. Mine does not have front serrations. All had the raven markings on the slide and came with the Gunsite grips. The low gunsite thumb saftey was an available option as well as a choice of Brown or Wilson beavertails. I still use carry my Gunsite 1911 as it has the best dehorn job of any of my other custom 1911's (it's smooth and fast) and works everytime I pull the trigger.