[rock185]

Lumatt, FWIW, I have personally seen '70 Series Gold Cups up into the 70N24000 range with the lightened slide. A friend has one in the 70N12000 range with the lightened slide. If it happens to be one of those, I'd definitely recommend a Govt./16# rcoil spring and buffer with standard ammo. I owned several '70 Series Gold Cups, none with the lightened slide, but all came with a recoil spring 4 coils shorter than the Government Model spring...

 

[smkummer]

My series 70 Gold Cup was very accurate and I shot it with the 22 kit about as much as the 45 kit. It worked and cycled reduced power 200 grain SWC very well. The only issues I had and is somewhat common with them was the rear sight pin would walk out and the front sight loosened up. The front sight needed restaking with the correct tool and I believe the fix for the rear sight is to peen the retaining pin so it won't walk out from shooting. The gun is now missing or stolen but those issues are a easy fix for a gunsmith.

 

[Lumatt]

JohnnyP that is a really nice colt. Thank you everyone else for the insight. Which older colt should be next on my list and why?

 

[JohnnyP]

Depends on what you want it for. Colt produced some beautifully finished pistols and revolvers between the wars, the likes of which we will never see again. You can find examples that would make good shooters, and you can find those that are too rare in model and condition to use as a shooter.

Shipped December 15, 1936.

 

[kenhwind]

WOW!
What a beautiful Super .38 "Super Match." J P do you shoot this one? I know I would........at least once or twice.

 

[JustAHack]

That is a really beautiful old Colt. Thanks for taking a picture that does it justice, and sharing it with us. Wow.

 

[JohnnyP]

WOW!
What a beautiful Super .38 "Super Match." J P do you shoot this one? I know I would........at least once or twice.

I have not shot it. It doesn't like much being in the condition it was when it left Colt some 77 years ago, and I won't change that.

 

[BrianPowley]

I bought a Series 70 NM Gold Cup NIB in 1978. Didn't know much about guns at the time and the dealer sold me on it for $314.00---a lot of money then.
I never really was a good shot with it even with adjustable sights. Years later a good friend/gunsmith pointed out what was wrong with it:
The factory chamber was all scarred up from a bad reamer. Lousy slide to frame fit. Crappy bbl bushing.
It never shot good until I rebarreled it and added heftier springs and bushing.
I guess I just had one that fell through the cracks. It happens. I'd buy another one of the price was right.

 

[JohnnyP]

Sounds like a previous owner abused it. The 70 Series GCNM's had match barrels, and you can bet Colt never let one go out with a scarred up chamber. The 70 Series never had a tight slide to receiver fit, but the barrel to bushing and bushing to slide fit was always tight which contributes more to accuracy than any other single feature.

 

[bmcgilvray]

Yea! You did good!

I'd rather have the Gold Cup too. I keep one around here.

 

[BrianPowley]

No previous owner...as stated: I bought it NIB. The chamber is horrible. Still have it.
Didn't say the slide to frame fit was tight: It was lousy. Bushing was sloppy.
Not trying to be argumentative, but somebody way back in the late 1970's left the gate open and this Colt got out of the barn without a bridle.
Heck...at one time, the front sight came out of the slide. I had to have it silver soldered in because there wasn't enough bottom base metal to peen it in place.

 

[JohnnyP]

If you had a NIB Series 70 in that condition, why did you buy it in the first place? Once discovered, why didn't you take it back?

 

[BrianPowley]

Like I said---Didn't know much about guns at the time. I can honestly plead ignorance. I guess I should have said I knew next to nothing about them--literally.
Here I was, 21 years old with more spare cash in my pocket than my dad ever had and it was a COLT Gold Cup! I kinda figured that's all I needed to know.
Didn't know until years later that it was a lemon. I just chalked it up to being a lousy shot with an auto-loader.

 

[skeeeter]

I always use a Wilson shock buffer in my 1911 including the Gold Cup. Why take a chance of a cracked frame?

 

[JohnnyP]

Doesn't the buffer go between the recoil spring guide and the recoil spring? Strange location to prevent "battering". The genius of the buffer is that it costs a cent of less to manufacture and sells for a dollar.

 

[Lumatt]

So here are the pictures of what I traded the Sig tac ops for. I am pleased with the colt.

 

[YaakaKhiladi]

The 25x59 calibre round is a grenade that has been adapted to be fired out of the XM109 Anti-material rifle, the XM25 Individual...

 

[CAR]

Doesn't the buffer go between the recoil spring guide and the recoil spring? Strange location to prevent "battering". The genius of the buffer is that it costs a cent of less to manufacture and sells for a dollar.

The recoil spring tunnel on the front of the slide contacts the spring guide at full recoil, the buffer prevents metal on metal contact and absorbs some of the shock.

 

[JohnnyP]

The recoil spring tunnel on the front of the slide contacts the spring guide at full recoil, the buffer prevents metal on metal contact and absorbs some of the shock.

This is where the brunt of the metal to metal contact is made, and the buffer does nothing for this. How is it that Colt and Kimber never saw the need for the Shok Bufs, and Colt invented the design?

 

[CAR]

Where do you think the force that is creating that is coming from? Look at the front of the spring guide (the flange) and the back end of the spring tunnel on the slide.