I mentioned last December that for Christmas my wife had given me one of the SFS (Safety Fast Shooting) kits designed by William R. Laughridge of the Cylinder & Slide Shop. The kit is now installed in my Colt 1911 (more accurately, M1991A1 Series 80), and it works like a charm!
This is a photograph of the pistol in what Jim Gardner called "Condition Five" in his article for the July/August 2005 edition of American Handgunner -- cocked and locked with the hammer down:
(http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y30/RichardS/Apr1701.jpg)
But disengage the safety, and the hammer springs smartly back to full-cock:
(http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y30/RichardS/Apr1702.jpg)
When you are ready to make the pistol safe, you just push the hammer forward and the safety engages again.
http://www.cylinder-slide.com/sfs.shtml
This is one "widget" that really works! I can understand why the American Pistolsmiths Guild named Laughridge as "Pistolsmith of the Year" for 2005.
http://www.americanpistol.com/Pistolsmiths/poyth2001.html