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Subject: Re: Dressing a .45
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Date: 5 Jun 91 14:27:53 GMT
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To:	  Distribution			  Date:  Tuesday, June 4, 1991
From:	  James T. McDuffie, III
Subject:  A New Colt Delta Elite 10mm, The Dream

   The following is my thoughts on how I would modify a NEW stock Colt
   Delta Elite 10mm, or any other Colt pattern automatic:

   * Gun based upon a stainless steel model.  Otherwise weapon to be
     fully re-finished in a matte (glass beaded) hard chrome.

   * Trigger job: set to 4.0 -> 4.5 lbs pull weight.  Use of Videkki
     Speed trigger optional, as standard Colt trigger is a plastic
     trigger with steel stirrup.  Chip McCormic titanium trigger a nice
     idea, but too expensive to really care about.

   * Feed ramp to be polished, barrel to be ramped and polished.  Care
     required due to full performance nature of the 10mm Auto cartridge.

   * Ejection Port to be lowered and flared, a`la my Detonics .45, but
     not quite as aggressively done.  This is more important than you
     may believe for reliability.

   * Recoil Spring Guide and Recoil Spring replaced with a full length
     guide rode (1 or 2 piece) and retaining the dual counter-wound
     recoil springs, using a set to provide around 26+lb.  force.  Wolff
     Springs has a special set for the Delta Elite, and Kings Gun Works
     has a nice special package.  Detonics no longer offers theirs,
     which is still my favorite.

   * The Browns Grip Safety is to be installed, demanding a very high
     level of precision on the fit.  I want, and will demand, that I
     obtain master metal smith craftsmanship on the fitting of this
     part.

   * Pachmayr Rubberized Flat Main Spring Housing is to be installed in
     place of the standard plastic arched version supplied with the gun.
     This to complement the rubberized wrap around grips standard on the
     Delta Elite and to improve the grip.

   * Novak Carry Sights to be installed.  I would also like to have
     these high class sights installed with the Trijicon sight inserts
     for low light situations.

   * Colt style, non-extended, ambidextrous safety.  I would prefer NOT
     to have an extended safety, mostly because in a normal carry
     situation, youre asking to have the safety knocked off.

   * Serrations cut on the front sides of the slide, matching the
     standard serrations on the back, to facilitate operation of the
     slide.

   * Extended Magazine Release by V.C.  Precision (2774 SE 84th Street,
     Portland, OR 97266, 503/771-2070)

   * 5 (minimum) Shooting Star Magazines (9 round capacity), each fitted
     with the Pachmayr rubber magazine pads.

   * I can't make up my mind on this one, but I'm leaning more and more
     to having a Brown Magazine Well fitted as well.  The real issue
     here is that this requires a quarter inch or so of the grip frame
     be milled off for the part to be installed.  Other products simply
     replace the main spring housing, which is why Im not real
     interested in them.  Mark this one OPTIONAL for now.
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