For some reason they didn't stock GI style 1911s, only guns with all the bells and whistles. I ended up being a Springfield loaded model. He said "why don't I make you a deal on something I have in stock". Said he was tired of trying to fix them after people buy them. I remember back in about the late '90s I always wanted a GI style 1911 so I went into my local gun shop and told him I wanted to order an Auto Ordnance 1911. On the other hand now you pretty much are limitting your pool of buyers to only army vets. I don't have a blue book of gun values in front of me, but I recall looking through one years ago and noticing that in general commeratives of anything were valued at less that the same gun that wasn't a commemorative. The only saving grace is that I bought it so cheap that I chalk it up as a learning experience. If the small parts are that bad, how are the frame, slide and barrel? Crap guns from a crap manufacturer. I had thought about buying some decent but not expensive parts and experimenting with it, but I just don't know if it is worth it or not. I have it wrapped in an oily rag in the safe and I doubt it will ever see the light of day again. I only put about 300 rds or so though it for it to get into that condition. And the sad thing is, I checked the gun when I reassembled it and the firing pin, hammer and sear were not like that then. The part of the safety that interacts with the sear looks like it was ground on with a 30 grit grinding wheel, although to be fair I don't know if the "aspiring gunsmith" I bought it from did that or not. The hammer hooks and sear are chipping and peening. The firing pin is peening to the point that, if I shoot it anymore, the head will peen to the point that it won't freely move through the firing pin retaining plate anymore. The frame, slide and barrel seem at least OK but the small parts are crap. He was planning on learning gun refinishing and had removed the blue from the frame and some of the small parts. I have one I bought disassembled in a bag from a guy probably 30 years ago.
Being a West Hurley gun kills it, as was said above.
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