Lisker lists guns he wants to buy and provides a free classifieds page. He also provides links to Bob Rayburn's Colt Woodsman Home Page and Ray Meibaum's Colt Single Action Army Revolvers Home Page. The way John Browning intended when the U.S. Army adopted his self-loading 45 caliber pistol. It explains that they start with a forged ingot of aluminum alloy, stainless or traditional chrome-moly steel for the frame. Add a forged steel slide and barrel then machine the final dimensions with precise tolerances.
Every pistol is hand-assembled and inspected.
Springfield's S.A.S.S. conversion unit transforms any government model steel 1911-A1 into a super accurate single shot break open, long range pistol. Just exchange the S.A.S.S. conversion unit for the original 1911-A1 slide assembly. Among the listings of Model 1911 sites, one seemed different. It turned out to be a page on Historical Firearms on the Federal Bureau of Investigation's FBI web site . To be brutally honest, the web site I found least inspiring for the Colt Model 1911 is the company's own site Colt Firearms .