Interesting 1911

[Maxsplat]

Found this while looking through GB:

http://www.gunbroker.com/Auction/ViewItem.aspx?Item=506104955

Makes me wonder what kind of round hit that 1911 to mess it up so bad.

 

[Mendozaco]

Found this while looking through GB:

http://www.gunbroker.com/Auction/ViewItem.aspx?Item=506104955

Makes me wonder what kind of round hit that 1911 to mess it up so bad.

$1,500 staring bid??? 1,500 Zimbabwe dollars if applicable.

 

[Maxsplat]

$1,500 staring bid??? 1,500 Zimbabwe dollars if applicable.

Oh totally agree. I was more looking at the 1911 than the price.

 

[somd_mustangs]

Day-um. That had to hurt....

 

[sxs]

Wow! I got to go shoot me up some almost trashed 1911's, come up with a great war story and have some old guys write them out....then put said guns, one at a time, spaced some months or years apart on Gunbroker.

 

[Bob A]

Buy the gun, not the story, they tell me, but I think the story (and the gun) is worth about a hundred bucks, on a day that I have that much to spare.

But I always was a romantic.

 

[Sewer Rat]

OUCH!!! Assuming the story is true.... can you imagine how it must have felt getting hit... looking at the damage, it would appear to be a large caliber.

Cool story... cool memento.... but not 1500 worth of cool.

 

[Dieselfool]

scrap is .03 a lb... I'll give ya a buck... you're making a profit, story.. cool yes, but it's more sentimental then anything else.

 

[tkd4life]

And I fail to understand how this would have saved the guys life. Whatever projectile hit this pistol went straight through it. Unless the round hit a ballistic vest after hitting the pistol, this would still cause some serious bleeding.

 

[Reptile]

And I fail to understand how this would have saved the guys life. Whatever projectile hit this pistol went straight through it. Unless the round hit a ballistic vest after hitting the pistol, this would still cause some serious bleeding.

If the story has any validity, the 1911 would have been in a shoulder holster over the airman's left chest. The angle of the round hitting it from right to left is plausible with the bullet passing across his chest missing it by less than an inch. Probably painful, but not even Purple Heart eligible (unless he was John Kerry).

 

[MilsurpDan]

Neat story if it was provable.

Reminds me of the time I went into a local shop before I really started collecting and was looking a a ratty Mauser C96 Broomhandle in the display case.

The guy said it was in bad condition because it "was used in a chlorine gas attack in WW1" which caused deep pitting, corrosion and finish loss, and he only wanted the "bargain" price of something around $750-800. I didn't know much at the time, but I knew enough to see through that BS. Especially since it had an import marking on the frame. It was one of the worn out ones imported from China.

 

[Z_Man]

looking at the pictures it is a very odd bullet impact into the firearm, it appears that it would have been coming perpendicular to the bore, nearly parallel to the grip, but when you look at picture 8, 9, and 10 its hard to put them together and see how it was impacted

 

[JBinDC]

Anyone else wonder if its still live....round chambered...

 

[Bolts Rock]

And I fail to understand how this would have saved the guys life. Whatever projectile hit this pistol went straight through it. Unless the round hit a ballistic vest after hitting the pistol, this would still cause some serious bleeding.

Aerial gunners wore pretty heavy flak vests on some raids.

 

[rdc]

Anyone else wonder if its still live....round chambered...

Good point. Couldn't rack the slide like that.

 

[303_enfield]

I bet it was flak that hit it. It is only worth something to the family unless the owner won the MOH during the mission it was hit. I'd pay $100 for it tops.

 

[S&W19]

Anyone else wonder if its still live....round chambered...

That's exactly what I was thinking.