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Hello all. So, my patience finally paid off and i ran across a deal on a P9S in .45 that i just couldn't pass up. A little background on the pistol and it's owners. I bought the gun from a young man who said it was his grandfather's pistol and that he inherited the pistol and just put it in the safe and never fired it. His grandfather was a competition 1911 shooter back in the day and actually won this pistol in the early eighties at some pistol match. I have no idea what year this pistol was manufactured. Any help or insight from you experts out there would be greatly appreciated. I ordered a new buffer to install as the one in there is at least 30 years old. So now for the interesting part....
From my research, this should be a DAO pistol but when I got the gun, I noticed the trigger was not resting where I'd expect a DAO trigger to rest. It was much farther back where it would rest for a single action pull. Upon examination, I immediately recognized some gunsmith work had been done in the the trigger housing. A pin had been place in the trigger housing to physically block the trigger from returning to its natural double action resting place. This pin was place just beyond the trigger reset position so in essence turning the trigger into a SAO. The gun function checks as a SAO gun would and the trigger pull feels like a 1911. So it would seem this competition 1911 shooting grandpa wanted his P9S to feel more like the 1911s he'd been used to.
I have not fired the gun yet but I plan to once the new buffer is installed. Should I have a local gunsmith look this thing over and give it a safety check or should it be fine? Like I said, it function checks just fine and dry fires normally, just single action. Please weigh in with your thoughts and comments. Did the trigger mod destroy the value of this gun? Pics coming...
From my research, this should be a DAO pistol but when I got the gun, I noticed the trigger was not resting where I'd expect a DAO trigger to rest. It was much farther back where it would rest for a single action pull. Upon examination, I immediately recognized some gunsmith work had been done in the the trigger housing. A pin had been place in the trigger housing to physically block the trigger from returning to its natural double action resting place. This pin was place just beyond the trigger reset position so in essence turning the trigger into a SAO. The gun function checks as a SAO gun would and the trigger pull feels like a 1911. So it would seem this competition 1911 shooting grandpa wanted his P9S to feel more like the 1911s he'd been used to.
I have not fired the gun yet but I plan to once the new buffer is installed. Should I have a local gunsmith look this thing over and give it a safety check or should it be fine? Like I said, it function checks just fine and dry fires normally, just single action. Please weigh in with your thoughts and comments. Did the trigger mod destroy the value of this gun? Pics coming...