Honestly, have not done extensive testing. Point of impact did not change and it appears groups are tighter but have not really done careful resting. Been too busy having fun shooting suppressed!

I went to the range and shot a bunch of them. A couple have checkering on the front of the grip that is like a razer blade. How aggressive is the checkering on the Sig tacops? Does it rip your hand apart? It felt like pushing on the wrong side of a bunch of push-pins.

Anybody know where to look at one in-person?

Also, after shooting a bunch, this is what I decided.

• trigger with over-travel screw
• Flared/funnel mag well
• full size
• heavier the better
• traditional sights

A little over your budget, but buy once cry once. SA Silent Operator.

Link to the gun? Price? I emailed Springfield, asking if they sell a 1911 with a threaded barrel:

It is a custom shop model. A hens tooth.

https://www.sportsmansoutdoorsuperstore ... /ID/192084

I'm not seeing $700/70% in better shit: http://www.gunbroker.com/item/710865336

Is there something I'm missing?

yes. Sig is off the production line. The Springfield is made in the custom shop with tool steel parts and fitted by 1911 masters. No comparison.

Depending on the supressor normal sight may not work.

4 pages of talking about 1911's and the OP hasn't bought a damn thing or learned much from some great input.
Seems to me it's more about another thread than the purchase.
Buy one, they aren't hard to find and basing whether it comes with a threaded barrel is silly.

Good point. Do you think the Target sights would work?

Thanks for the info. Way out of the price range though. For $1700, I'd start considering Dan Wessons etc. Everything else that is 2k.


I started the thread 10 days ago. Do you sell guns at a pawn shop or cars at a used car lot? Can I research something for more than 10 days without you bitching?

The only great input I've seen is to spend $2000, or as you've said, eliminate the threaded barrel from the criteria. At a $2000 or $3000 pistol then a $100 barrel is nothing. But at the $1000 price point throwing away barrels, or grips, or triggers, or or or or is a big deal.

You should have listened to Sinus 3 pages ago. Otherwise, buy a Springfield in whatever flavor you can afford and buy a damn threaded barrel already.

No, you don't need a poll to decide either.

Fucking A right!?!?!!? Buy a gun already and stop blue balling us! I'm married. I get enough of that shit already!

Seriously, unless you're about to buy a gun knock it off with the mental masturbation. You've been presented with all of the viable options. Shit or get off the pot. We don't need another opinion based ego stroking shit fest of a thread.

You've been told. Buy.

Hmmmm........i think you said it well.