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Buddy of mine buys the world's ugliest 1911a1 for about $300. I look it over and see Series 70 Nat'l Gold Cup slide, WWII vintage Essex frame in plum brown (horribly checkered, actively hideous), old Videcki long trigger, hand-fitted barrel-bushing, some custom hammer with the prettiest sear engagement surfaces I've ever seen, and a host of other nice (if ugly) mods. It shoots like a damned dream. X-ring on every stinking shot and nary a misfire.
He goes into the Army, and leaves the pistol in the trunk of his car. His 65 Mustang, with it's very leaky trunk that is. For fifteen months. When he comes back, he's bitching to me because he can't open the zipper on the sheepskin he stored it in. I see it and realize what happened. The brass zippered is scaled shut. You don't want to know what that gun looked like when I got it open and sheared all that synthetic sheepskin off of it.
To my own credit, I did get it back in working condition, and it shoots. It shoots about a third as well as it used to though. Frikken shame.
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