Hope this helps you out Frank. Here is a photo of a Astra A75L 9mm I bought for $63.00 a few weeks ago. It had no magazine, I bought two mags for $37.00 from www.e-gunparts.com for it. This is a car gun, 100% reliable and cheap enough to lose. If one becomes involved in a shooting, regardless of how justified it was, one will, at the least, loose their firearm. No sense loosing a pricelss piece.
1911 diagram
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My brother Scott got alot of the rust off the RH side by soaking the slide in Kroil, then wire brushing and filing. Since the slide had bare spots after that treatment, he painted the slide with BBQ grill paint. The paint stuck like glue, I intended to have the slide parkerized but will leave it as is until the paint starts flaking off. Scott cold blued the slide release, decocker, hammer, trigger and grip screws. He polished the barrel up too. It looks dang nice now.

Here is another car gun, a Ruger P95dc 9mm. Gun and three 10 round mags set me back $132.00. The gun was full of paint. I thought it was either drywall dust or kaolin dust but it did indeed turn out to be paint. Don't know how it got in there, two of the mags had enough sand in them to refurbish Myrtle Beach. I can't warm up to this pistol, the polymer frame feels like the body of my Honda lawn mower. It is, however, 100% totally reliable.