1911 Owners: how do I fix the "idiot mark" ?

[mixwell]

Damn yours looks just as bad as mine does.. Mine is an Armscor fwiw so welcome to the club I consider mine to be a customized bada** lightening bolt that I artistically created.

[Gunhacker]

If you really want a self respecting idiot mark, you have to slip while using a dremel with a cratex polishing tip while working on the feed ramp. It doesn't look too bad now that's it not bright and shiny... the result of some Brownell's Oxpho Blue, it looked great until it started to wear a bit. I did that deed over 20 years ago about a month after I bought that Series '70 Gold Cup NIB... did that ever hurt. I'm just glad the slide stop hides most of it.



I switched over to stainless now... much easier to fix your f'ups.

[stand125]

I never understand how people make the "idiot mark" on their 1911's.

It seems easy enough to do according to most 1911 owners.

[westcoast362]

Then how did they field strip it?
Field striped is what happens when you scratch the frame.
Only when you own a 1911 for 20 years and never put a take down scratch on it, or know someone who scratches theirs multiple times, do you then earn the right to call someone else's prized weapon as being "idiot scratched" Till then it's a take down scratch.
Probably coming from someone who's never owned a 1911, or even field stripped one.
You are wrong on this one bucky.
I've been collecting guns for over fifty years. I currently own seven 1911s, and I don't know how many in the past. I have added an idiot mark on a couple of them. It's just a term for that particular scratch on the frame. It does not mark the person that did it as an idiot.
Lighten up and buy a gun.

[tiko]

I have 5 1911s and have idiot marks on the first two, TIME heals everything, I do not pay attention any more.

[tankerman]

The scratch is not supposed to be by the trigger.

Everyone knows it is supposed to be on the slide!

HAhahahaha! What a moroon!

Don't ask me how I know....

The OP's scratch looks like the old 'wedding ring scratch', I've got a couple.

[jaydog]

Practice

Just tell your friends you were practicing break down/reassembly with a blindfold. It wont matter then.

[Black Majik]

Perfect excuse to hardchrome the frame.

[GW]

Meh...
Don't sweat it
It doesn't impair the true purpose of the gun so...
fuggedaboudit.