Making the Best of a Judgment Error

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Picked up this 3906 on GunBroker, with the intention of installing a Peters Stahl / Pachmayr .22LR Target Conversion onto it:

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Oops! The .22 magazine is too short and won’t lock into place, and some rocket surgeon had “cleaned up” the finish using something like a Brillo Pad. If you look very carefully at the GunBroker photos, you’ll just make out the areas where that was done.

So, I de-horned the trigger guard and sandblasted both the slide and frame, resulting in:
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Depending on how it shoots, it just might be a keeper. Then, all I have left to do is find another single sided safety/decocker, as I intensely dislike the double sided ones.
 
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Picked up this 3906 on GunBroker, with the intention of installing a Peters Stahl / Pachmayr .22LR Target Conversion onto it:

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Oops! The .22 magazine is too short and won’t lock into place, and some rocket surgeon had “cleaned up” the finish using something like a Brillo Pad. If you look very carefully at the GunBroker photos, you’ll just make out the areas where that was done.

So, I de-horned the trigger guard and sandblasted both the slide and frame, resulting in:
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Depending on how it shoots, it just might be a keeper. Then, all I have left to do is find another single sided safety/decocker, as I intensely dislike the double sided ones.
That is amazing!
What the 3906 should have looked like from the start.
 
Nice job! That goofy trigger guard never did appeal to me. Looks much better now.
Also did that same thing with a 645, some 4 decades ago:

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All it takes is confidence in yourself, the will to take a risk, a bench grinder (optional, but certainly saves time, if you have a light touch and a good eye for when enough is enough), a good mill file, emery cloth, masking tape to protect the rails, and access to a sandblaster.
Just do it.
 

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