Building Your Custom 1911

It all starts here. After your frame and slide have been picked out, our Master Gunsmiths start out by doing the slide-to-frame fit and then hand lapping it in. You will always be able to tell it’s one of our guns when you pull the slide back. The slide feels as though it is running on ball bearings from the first day you get it, and it only gets better with shooting. Next will come the barrel fit. None of our barrels are drop-in barrels. Each barrel lug is worked down with a file slowly and methodically until it fits the slide recess. Following that, they will fit the extractor and checker the rear of the slide on the Talon or Predator models. Don’t forget the slide top serrations. If it’s a GRP, this is when they cut down the slide stop and chamfer the frame around the slide stop hole to allow you to push it out easily. Once this is completed, it’s off for final preparation.