1911’s in general, 9mm versions specifically

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I'm shocked there's not much mention of the MAC 9ds comp here yet. $850 on a good sale. 4.25" or 5" bull barrel, bottom pic rail, comes with optics plate for an RMR, easily replaceable different trigger lengths from the factory. It seems to be the new hotness amongst the budget 2011 world right now and everything I've seen says it's for good reason. Doesn't seem to take much work to make reliable. Polishing a spot or two, couple of spring adjustments, red-dirt trigger, seems to make very happy owners.

It's certainly caught my attention. Anyone found differentley?

So I bought one a few months back, took it out of the box and did absolutely nothing to it before I ran ~500 round through it and the only reliability issue I had was with a few rounds where the slide didn't fully close, tapped the slide home and kept going. But it was horribly over sprung and had one of the worst 1911 triggers I have ever used.

After that, I fully disassembled it, polished everything, stoned the sear and hammer hooks, replaced the recoils spring, firing pin spring, and mainspring, tuned the sear spring and extractor, installed an optic, and lubed everything up. Now it has a slightly less than 3lb trigger with a very clean break, and has ran another 2,500 or so rounds with zero issues.

So overall, I think it is a good option for people who have the knowledge and ability to fit and replace parts, and tune a 1911. Not quite so much for someone who wants to just grab a gun and run it.