This one is half stainless, so take my opinion, with half a grain of salt
I purchased this, April 2020 before the Biden panic hit, and I got a good price, $500.00 new.
I asked the clerk to let me pick the "best out of three", as I am fussy about tightness and trigger pull. All of the pistols were amazingly tight. When I picked this Colt MKIV out, it rattled, and it still rattles a bit.
But more modern 1911's, built on modern CNC machines, I am just amazed how tight the things are. There is no barrel back give, putting my finger in the muzzle, the barrel to bushing to slide fit is tight, no give. And of course the slide to frame fit is without give. The sucker is tight. I more or less picked this one based on trigger pull, I don't want creep. The others were not as good, but with a bit of oil on the hooks, maybe they would have been.
This pistol is accurate. A bud of mine who practiced 2700 Bullseye daily, claimed that Clark Guns told him to keep the barrel on his Remington 1911 as those barrels are as good as any they could buy. Bud sent his pistols off to Clark to turn them into wadcutter guns. And they all shot well. This barrel is stainless, I don't know if Remington made a carbon steel barrel.
I always have issues with sights. I am so happy both the front and rear sight are dovetailed, if you remember Colts, the front is stacked in, making elevation adjustments difficult. In my hands, this two tone pistol shot low,
I had a Colt rear sight rolling around in my parts box, it is taller, fit the dovetail, once I zero'd the pistol, it shoots to center with a 6 OC hold.
I like the look and feel of wood, so I took those plastic grips on and installed Costa Rican Cocobolo. The maker claims the wood comes from submerged stump water wood, so the wood could be hundreds of years old. Because of the run ons, I can tell these grips are hand checked. The wood looks good in the sunlight
I have not decided whether to put on the 1911A1 safety, the current safety is the pre WW1 version, small, but then, I am not a condition one cocked and locked person, round in the chamber and hammer down for me. So the safety is only a temporary thing I use between shots at the range.
Anyway, I like this pistol, like all 1911's, it takes a bit of fussing, like all 1911's do, to get the grips and sights right. But it functions perfectly with all ammunition I have put through it. The series 80 trigger parts have not malfunctioned, and until they do, I am keeping them in.
