Chrome 1911 - What to do?

[chuckindenver]

just under 300.00 to have it done right like the one i pictured..i do them all the time

[Shooter5]

Encountered lots of plated guns in Mess-O-pomia, usually Warsaw Pact small arms. Occasionally something off kilter such as this USGI capture. If it could have been brought back, I would have left it as is simply because that is how it was encountered.

[Redleg13a]

There's a chromed 1911A1 on display at ASG-Kuwait on Camp Arijfan. Couldn't tell the maker but supposedly it had been demilled. I didn't see any welds but they could have been on the right side where I couldn't see.

[Shooter5]

There's a chromed 1911A1 on display at ASG-Kuwait on Camp Arijfan. Couldn't tell the maker but supposedly it had been demilled. I didn't see any welds but they could have been on the right side where I couldn't see.

Will have to check that out next time. Or have a buddy gets a closer look.

[Redleg13a]

They had numerous other firearms in the 2 or 3 cases along with the 1911A1. They had AK's, Makarov's, BHP's, M1951 Beretta copies, grenades, mines, ComBloc MG's, ComBloc Sniper rifle and a German Mauser. They had other ordnance in there as well. I tried to get them to open the case so I could see the 1911 up close but they wouldn't do it.

On another note, I found a Brit 7.62mm brass on Arifjan while I was there. It was 80's headstamp so I figure it was fired during GW1. A civilian worker found a UXO submunition with a forklift when he was moving some concrete barriers. Luckily he wasn't hurt. Seems the area Arifjan is on now had an Iraqi artillery battery on it during GW1 and someone either dropped cluster bombs on it or hit it with DPICM or MLRS. Must have missed that one in the clean-up.

[oldtirediron]

Not to mess with anyone's project but when you plate something ;then de-plat it-- The metal underneath suffers hydrogen embrittlement-- Read up on it, this can be a real dangerous problem on some firearms and their metallurgy!