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So Davidson's latest exclusive Girsan arrived and did so quickly and over the Thanksgiving holiday. But my FFL was upstate on his deer lease suffering lousy weather and no sight of Bambi so it sat for a few days until he got back in town. Yesterday I got to pick it up and bring it home for basic inspection, clean and lube.
The pistol is a Commander size 1911 made in Turkey, just black cerakote but forged slide and frame with Novak style three dot sights, ambidextrous thumb safety, long trigger, extended beaver-tail with the speed bump, skeleton hammer, checkered front strap and flat main spring housing and a full length guide rod with flat spring. It came in a small foam lined plastic clam shell case with on eight round ACT magazine, a cable lock and a manual.
Generally the fit and finish is fine but it's clear it's a pieces parts amalgam. For example while the slide stop, font strap and mainspring housing are checkered the thumb safety and hammer and magazine release are striped. The slide cut out for the safety also does not match the shape or dimensions of the thumb safety itself.
Granted those are purely aesthetic and relatively minor issues.
But how does it shoot?
The rear sight was off slightly and needed to get drifted over but the elevation was right on. I ran a total of fifty rounds of 230 ball using the eight round ACT magazine as well as seven rounders from Mec-Gar, Ed Brown and Checkmate plus a Checkmate eight rounder. Initially there were a few failure to feeds but always cured by a tap rack and the last round in each magazine failed to feed. That decreased and the last two magazines, the seven round Ed Brown and the eight round Checkmate fed all rounds flawlessly. Trigger pull after the first fifty rounds average 4 pounds eleven ounces with a short take-up, clean break and very short audible and tactile reset.
So far I'm satisfied and if the feed issue continues to improve I will add likely it to my carry rotation.
The pistol is a Commander size 1911 made in Turkey, just black cerakote but forged slide and frame with Novak style three dot sights, ambidextrous thumb safety, long trigger, extended beaver-tail with the speed bump, skeleton hammer, checkered front strap and flat main spring housing and a full length guide rod with flat spring. It came in a small foam lined plastic clam shell case with on eight round ACT magazine, a cable lock and a manual.
Generally the fit and finish is fine but it's clear it's a pieces parts amalgam. For example while the slide stop, font strap and mainspring housing are checkered the thumb safety and hammer and magazine release are striped. The slide cut out for the safety also does not match the shape or dimensions of the thumb safety itself.
Granted those are purely aesthetic and relatively minor issues.
But how does it shoot?
The rear sight was off slightly and needed to get drifted over but the elevation was right on. I ran a total of fifty rounds of 230 ball using the eight round ACT magazine as well as seven rounders from Mec-Gar, Ed Brown and Checkmate plus a Checkmate eight rounder. Initially there were a few failure to feeds but always cured by a tap rack and the last round in each magazine failed to feed. That decreased and the last two magazines, the seven round Ed Brown and the eight round Checkmate fed all rounds flawlessly. Trigger pull after the first fifty rounds average 4 pounds eleven ounces with a short take-up, clean break and very short audible and tactile reset.
So far I'm satisfied and if the feed issue continues to improve I will add likely it to my carry rotation.