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Old March 27, 2013, 02:56 PM   #2
ScottRiqui
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If "9717" is the entire serial number, I wouldn't be firing it at all. I think that serial number would make yours a first-year example, and it's probably worth much more as a collectible than as a shooter.

And I don't think the barrel is necessarily the issue, either. The slides on the early 1911s weren't heat-treated, and the locking lugs would get battered and deformed with use.
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