Duct tape. I can't believe you really used to be an SF medic... duct tape can fix it. PA school made you forget some important things. The good heavy almost black duct tape is the best...:D

I bought the knife at a knife show in Pigeon Forge back around 95', don't remember who made it. Its dressed out a few deer over the years.

CD

Now that you've established the root of the problem allow me to add one more thing.

I notice you're running a Para LDA not a 1911. We had several problems with these at the range I work at. The drawbar that transfers the movement of the trigger to the rest of the lock work at the back of the gun has a habit of popping off the nub on the trigger to which it is attached. This happened on one of our rentals as well as a couple of customer guns. After this happened the trigger would not be mechanically connected to the rest of the gun and the slide would have to be removed to re-attach the drawbar.

Forewarned is forearmed and all that.

Ek

Disassemble the pistol and take off the main spring housing. Bend the leaf spring under it until it puts more pressure on the grip safety and re-assemble. That should stop your rattle.

-Para said there is nothing wrong with the grip safety and upto 1mm of travel was acceptable.

-Took it to a local gunsmith who disassembled it and put a shim to remove the lateral rattle of the grip safety which has solved most of the noise problem.

-There is no spring that places tension on the grip safety - it simply rests against a little "knob" that engages once the grip safety is depressed.

-It shoots nice enough at the range, 300 rnds without a failure to feed or fire and good groups thus far. It's another tool in the toolbox, and I got a good deal on it, so live and learn I guess.