I got my field grade CMP 1911 a little over a year ago. It arrived with a 1943 Ithaca frame and commercial Colt slide. I recently bought an Ithaca slide off of a guy online and it arrived yesterday. Swapped the slide parts over today so now I have an Ithaca frame/slide. Next step is to replace the couple other later replacement parts with originals so that they better match. I've taken it out shooting a few times and it runs great, the mag that came with it is the only mag that has had any issues. Anyone that is poo-pooing these is missing out.
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