
Originally Posted by
rob_s
I was not at ALL impressed with the Colt "custom shop" section of their display. Gritty, half assed, rough texture, bad concept, and horrendous QC abound. They even brought out a Delta Elite with the paint for the front sight dot running all over the front sight post.
SHOT is where you come to put your best foot forward. If these guns were their best foot, I'd hate to see what the back foot looks like. And if they were examples of what we can expect from production guns, I'll pass. Bigtime. In terms of 1911s, Colt isn't doing anything I can't get better for less somewhere else. Unless someone wants to make up a chart to show me how I'm wrong, there was nothing there that remotely interested me.

The Colt custom shop does not do "custom" work like what people think as 1911 gunsmithing. All they do is custom configurations.
Colt is one of the few companies that makes 1911s with forged slides and frames rather than cast or milled bar stock.
Many people don't like their fit or sloppyness. You have to understand what you are buying. You are buying a 1911 that is made the GI way.
I don't like series 80 1911s and wish this rail gun was a series 70 as it is more for "hard" use.
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