I watched a TV show last night with the above title. It was on the History channel. What a joke. The idea of the program was to have an apprentice compete against a master gun smith. The project they chose to have them work on was a Colt SA. The moderator started by saying that the pistol was chambered for the 45 Colt cartridge and since the round was known to be unreliable at times we want you to convert the pistol to fire the much more reliable 45ACP and you have 45 minutes to complete the job. There was another word the man used to denigrate the Colt round but I can't remember what it was. The only equipment they had to work with was a drill press equipped with what looked like an XY table and of course hand tools. When the mod said start they each grabbed their pistol and started to work. The apprentice didn't know how to take the cylinder out and started to unscrew the grip frame. Someone must have stopped him but you didn't see it. Once he had the cylinder out he began to mill the back of the cylinder to allow room for the cartridge clips which they also had to make. His next step was reaming the cylinder for the 45 ACP. All the above happened within the 45 minute limit and they were ordered to stop work. Then came the firing test. Of course they had rigged what looked like an outdoor toilet with explosives. The master fired his 6 rounds and nothing happened. The apprentice began firing and on his second shot the explosives went off and to much cheering the young man was declared the winner. I wanted to barff.
