We had a swap meet at the club this week end. Small turnout but as expected. Nothing seems to be happening at our club these days aside from the grass growing. But, a guy had a 1911 setting on his table. It was old and had quite a bit of the blueing off. Just not real pretty but seemed solid. It had a Colt slide but had an Essex frame. From what little research I did, seems a lot of old Colts ended up this way. No one even seem to notice the old pistol. I asked what he wanted and he said he really didn't know. He said it shot good and did everything it was supposed to. Things were winding down and he was packing up so I approached him again. I asked again and he said make an offer. I offered $300 thinking he would turn it down but he didn't. So I got an old war horse. Thinking maybe I would get it spruced up a little then flip it but wanted to shoot it first. I took it out today and I don't know who put it together but that thing will shoot. No problems what so ever and it just stacked cheap S&B hard ball ammo on top of each other. Evidently they knew what they were doing. Now I'm thinking forget the sprucing up and just let it be in the shape its in. It took a lot of years to get where its at.