[IrishCop]

I thought this was a little interesting. I have heard of Cabot, but only know what I've read on line. They appear to make some high quality 1911's. But very pricey.

This one (actually two according to the story...a righty and a lefty) takes the cake. Expected to bring $1,000,000 at auction.

Guns made of meteorite: Price tag $1 million | Fox News

 

[TommyGunn]

This is truely a .... "stellar" example of American gunmaking!!!:cryinlaugh::roll::mrgreen:

:bolt:​

 

[IrishCop]

Tommy, I must admit I love it when you pun-tificate! :thumbsup:

 

[Diamondback]

Cabot's... well, it should tell you something about their price-point that one of their customers is Joe Mantegna, who specially commissioned one for use on Criminal Minds.

 

[IrishCop]

Cabot's... well, it should tell you something about their price-point that one of their customers is Joe Mantegna, who specially commissioned one for use on Criminal Minds.

Their website shows the lowest priced model at $3,700. The highest listed is $11,500, with a mirror image model POR.

I will admit the guns look magnificent. Very highly polished, deep, rich looking blue/black. The machining appears to be extremely well done. Nbut this is all photos. Reviews are unanimously glowing.

But I didn't hit the PowerBall , so it even their entry level model ain't in the cards for me.

If Charlie or any of our other members have ever had any experience with this brand, I'd love to here from them.

 

[IrishCop]

Sorry. I really have to posting with my phone. Sausage fingers.

 

[IrishCop]

Sorry...double post

 

[bearcat6]

Here's a link.
Cabot Gun | Cabot Meteorite Pistol Set

 

[SpecialEd]

Cabot's... well, it should tell you something about their price-point that one of their customers is Joe Mantegna, who specially commissioned one for use on Criminal Minds.

So he went through the extra trouble and expense for a prop gun?

 

[TommyGunn]

So he went through the extra trouble and expense for a prop gun?

They put a restrictor in the barrel, he fires blanks.....like the 1911 Vic Morrow used in the 1960s series "COMBAT!" Yes? No? Maybe?

Or is it because it's not an "airsoft" toy?

 

[Diamondback]

I don't know how he legally got it into Commiefornia, but JM paid for it himself, and had his character David Rossi's name engraved on it--and it's very much Live Iron, though I wouldn't be surprised if they swap the barrel with a "blanks only" one when on-set. (My guess, he figured he'd get himself a hell of a souvenir after the series ends. The "Judy Garland's Ruby Slippers*" of Police Procedurals?)
*In the sense that the slippers in Wizard of Oz were JG's personal property, if memory serves she brought 'em when Wardrobe ran out of ideas

He's given some interviews where he seems to Get It on guns, gut-check is the kinda guy I wouldn't mind sharing a couple stogies after a day on the range with.

That said... since Cabot does do custom "handed" iron on request, maybe I should see what they think about my own conceptual stab at tweaking the 1911 to combine "left/right versions" with "common magazines" and avoid the Portsider Problem.

 

[phantom4570]

*In the sense that the slippers in Wizard of Oz were JG's personal property, if memory serves she brought 'em when Wardrobe ran out of ideas

That didn't pass the sniff test. Judy Garland was sixteen years old when The Wizard of Oz was filmed. Seems unlikely that she had any ideas overlooked by the veteran propmasters who worked in the MGM props department in 1939. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruby_slippers

In L. Frank Baum's original novel, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900), on which the film is based, Dorothy wears Silver Shoes. However, the color of the shoes was changed to red in order to take full advantage of the new Technicolor film process being used in big-budget Hollywood films of that era. Film screenwriter Noel Langley is credited with the idea.