Happiness is a new gun 2

[berettabone]

I love the looks.......Sig 1911 Tribal.

[dao]

Beautiful example BB!

[jeepster09]

Last year I tried to find one and finally gave up.

[BirdsThaWord]

Love the lil Sig 1911’s. Can’t believe how much they’ve gone up in the last few years and how unobtanium some of them have become. I miss my little collection of them. One of my “Doh!” regrets in letting them go in pursuit of other things. The “Traditional” was my fave. Had not seen the tribal at that time. Nice find there Beretta!!!

[dao]

My LGS guy took in an Estate, and gave me first look at the ones I marked on his list beforehand. This is the only one I settled on. 1989 Vintage. I stripped the slide and stainless frame completely down, except for the plunger tube. Added a couple of new springs but everything else looked good. I took some 2000gr sandpaper to it, very sparingly, and removed a slight idiot mark that someone had put on it. All of the guns this guy had were well taken care of, and shot. This one was no exception. There was no pitting under the grips, which I had wondered about given that it had what looked to be original wood grips on it when I bought it. I put the Stan Chen Magwell and G10 grips on it, but other than those, the plunger tube innards, and a new Wilson Combat mag release setup, it's all original.

[Bawanna]

I had one of those when they first came out. 1989 sounds about the right time. Some had issues with them but I never had a problem with mine. Can't remember why I was such a dumb arse and traded it. I don't think I was totally warm and fuzzy with the platform at the time. Things have definitely changed for me since then.

[dao]

The spring plug is known to break. Others last for years and years without breaking. But in any case it is an unusual configuration. Also, on some of the earlier ones the hole for the slide stop, where it slides up to catch the frame, was oval shaped and prone to cracking. After those early ones they did away with the hold and just notched out the frame there like you see on most guns these days.
A company called Clark Custom Guns makes a more robust spring cap for them.
So many of us have sold guns that we still miss to this day. Nature of the hobby I guess, to be attracted to the next new thing, at the expense of the "old" thing. In this case I feel better about this one than I did about my Defender. Partly because I like the finish better, but also because I like the heft of it much better.

[Bawanna]

I regret nearly every single one I sold or traded. I quit selling or trading just for that reason.

[JohnR]

The few I’ve regretted selling, I replaced. Most of them, a memory is sufficient.

[BirdsThaWord]

Nice find and revamp dao!