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- From: vtessier@vela.acs.oakland.edu (Vince Tessier)
- Newsgroups: rec.guns
- Subject: Re: Calibre change kits?
- Message-ID: <199301260355.AA23105@vela.acs.oakland.edu>
- Date: 26 Jan 93 05:00:59 GMT
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- From: ems@michael.apple.com (E. Michael Smith)
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- Now that I have a 1911A1 .45 ACP, I'm wondering what it would take to
- shoot a different calibre in it. Say, for example, .40 S&W?
-
- I figure a new barrel and magazine, and maybe a new recoil spring?
- Or is the .40 S&W so long that you can't adapt a .45 ACP frame?
-
- I don't know about .40 S&W. I don't recall having heard about anything
- as a conversion in a 45. On the other hand, ...
-
- How about .41 AE or 9mm ?
-
- Does anyone make such kits? And do they cost more than a new gun ;-)
-
- Yup yup. But not exactly for your 45. The Colt Gov't Model & Commanders
- in 9mm or 38 Super can be converted for 41AE with a new barrel & mag (or
- you can fiddle with an existing mag, but don't expect to use it for the
- original calibre again; feed lips are funny). The 9mm, 38 Super, and 41AE
- all have the same base: they use the same extractor and ejector, and hence
- the same slide. Look carefully from the rear at one of these slides and
- compare to a 45: you'll see that the cuts for the ejector are different,
- and the slides are *not* interchangable.
-
- 41AE conversion kits are sold by Action Arms, the importer of IMI products.
- There also exists a conversion kit for the Browning HiPower, which I've
- had done. It's just a drop in for the barrel; I used a 9mm magazine
- instead of buying one from AA, and it required work to make it feed
- properly. Since you can't convert your 45 to 41AE, you might consider
- the HIPower.
- --
- Vince Tessier (vtessier@vela.acs.oakland.edu)
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