Colt .25 ACP mods

I bought an HFC Colt .25 off of a chap on one of the forums. Bit dear but I'd always fancied one. It looked quite nice (from a distance) but was pants. Nothing to do with the seller though! Now most people would have put it down to experience and foisted it off on some other unsuspecting forum chairsofter. Not I, I promptly dismantled it - just to have a look at how it worked of course. This required a cunning plan, which I didn't have, but brute force and a lot less cunning seemed to suffice and it was soon down to its component parts. By jove they were sh*t.

Some polishing of the internals, a bit of dremelling and it was 'tuned'. Or at least working to a more satisfactory level. Put back together it was much smoother and fired pretty well but now looked distincly scruffy. Of course, I couldn't leave it that way. Not forever anyway.

I bought some lead strip (for weighting golf clubs apparently) with the idea of adding some heft and some Milliput to fill some of the original gaps in the seams but mainly the ones I'd caused getting it appart. After dismantling it I put as much of the lead strip inside as I could. It only added around 30 grams but did take it up to 190g all in. So happy with that. I may have been able to get another gram or so in but it just wasn't worth the effort. The gas resevoir was leaking but that was quicky solved with some silicon grease and teflon tape. More polishing of the internals has led to a much smoother action that I'm now quite delighted with. It's quite grin enducing. Externally though the gun is now down to a black and orange surface waiting to be filled, filled and painted. When I can be bothered.   

Detonics Serpa

I needed a holster for my Detonics and seen a DeSantis ITP holster that appeared quite good. It was cheap(ish) and arrived quite promptly from the USA - a distinct but pleasant surprise since most things I order from the States seem to have delivery times based on phases of the moon or planetary alignment. Anyhoo, it worked great looked the dogs and was as uncomfortable as feck. NEXT!!!

Que a Blackhawk CQB. I've got one and the Detonics fitted fine but the holster was a tad big for the size of the gun. I debated chopping it up but since it's a real left handed model opted to order one of the cheaper Sportster ones. Also left handed. It arrived as per normal USesque delivery times but worked fine and has now been dremelled down to Detonics size. I could probably take just about another centimetre off the length of the holster but this would take it past the reinforcing point and it may end up too flexible. I'm still thinking about it though and since I have some fibreglass kicking about somewhere I may use that to support  around the end.

In the mean time the holster works a treat. Now I  need something for these two spare mags...