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Colt Combat Government Slide

bill2740bill2740 Member Posts: 886 ✭✭✭✭
edited January 2007 in Ask the Experts
I bought a Colt slide marked 'COMBAT GOVERNMENT MODEL', 45ACP.
Is this a pre series 70, Mark IV, or something from the Colt Custom Shop. Not marked series 70. The front sight has two pins.
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  • perry shooterperry shooter Member Posts: 17,105 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Hello Bill there were very few custom government models with non standard slide roll stamps pre 1970's one I know of are the ones marked 45ACP kit that would have a H as part of the serial number. sold thru Gil Hebard thus the H These were sold unassembled "IN THE WHITE" and do not have the V P proof on the trigger guard . Later in the series 70 and series 80 time frame colt put many different roll marks on the slide this is what you have . The sight without looking at it may be aftermarket put on by a GUNSMITH at a later date."PRAISE THE HARD-BALL GUN"
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  • XracerXracer Member Posts: 1,990 ✭
    edited November -1
    According to the Blue Book:

    Series 70 Combat Gov't: .45ACP, bluish-black metal finish, features modifications for combat shooting, forerunner to the Combat Elite.

    98% - $775
    90% - $650
    80% - $550
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  • PearywPearyw Member Posts: 3,699
    edited November -1
    I also have one of these slides and a new in the box 70 Combat Government. If it has pins in the front sight and is a 70 series, someone has changed it. The origonals have a staked sight. Colt had a number of these slides left over and sold them separately. My slide came with all the internal parts in them. They only made the 70 model for about a year and then brought out an 80 series version. I don't know what sight is on the 80 series version.
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  • big mangobig mango Member Posts: 1,905 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Xracer:

    HE STATED HE HAD A SLIDE ONLY, NOT THE ENTIRE GUN.

    NICE TO KNOW THE BLUE BOOK VALUE ON THE ENTIRE HAMASKAH THOUGH.
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  • big mangobig mango Member Posts: 1,905 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    The term "Mohaska" goes back a number of years."
    Where does this come from ? I have been using that term for a number of years after hearing it in a movie: The Untouchables ? Where Sean Connery walks up to the other guy playing Ellot Ness on the bridge and taps his night stick on Eliot's shoulder holster and says, "What's with the Mohaska ?
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