CALIBER:
SIG SAUER TACTICAL OPERATIONS 1911 MAG CAPACITY:
ACTION TYPE: TRIGGER PULL:
.45 ACP SAO 5 lbs
OVERALL LENGTH: 8.7" OVERALL HEIGHT: 5.5" OVERALL WIDTH: 1.4" BARREL LENGTH: 5.0" SIGHT RADIUS
6.5" WEIGHT W/MAG: 41.6 oz
easy and positive with the add-on magwell accessory. The sights are 3-dot Tritium Night
Sights from Novak. The front sight sits in a dovetail and is a very substantial piece of metal. It looks as if you could bang it on any doorframe you’re nego- tiating and the doorframe would end up the loser. The rear sight is typical Novak design, allowing you to grasp the rear of the slide and give it a good hard yank without parting with most of the hide from the palm of your hand. The trigger is curved, solid alumi-
num with ribs on the front surface providing the shooter a good tactile surface for the all-important push to a surprise. It breaks smoothly and crisply at about 5 pounds with almost boring consistency. It is one of the
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best triggers I’ve ever experienced on a true production gun. The hammer is a skeletonized Commander-style and ribbed on the rear half. (All this and an ambidextrous safety too.) The web of the shooter’s hand is
protected from hammer bite by a full-size beavertail safety. The design is very similar to the Wilson Combat high-ride drop-in beavertail. It lets your hand ride higher without “en- joying” hammer bite or slide railroad tracks in the web of your hand be- tween the thumb and forefinger. The higher ride puts you closer to the line of the bore and provides less perceived recoil and muzzle flip. Aiding in controllability is the
straight and checkered backstrap, as well as an aggressively, yet
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SIGHTS: GRIPS:
FRAME FINISH: SLIDE FINISH:
Novak Night Sights Ergo XT grips Nitron Nitron
ACCESSORY RAIL: Yes CA COMPLIANT:
No
MA COMPLIANT: No MSRP:
comfortably $1,290 checkered frontstrap.
The frontstrap provides enough grip without wearing out your fingers after a full day of practice. Rounding out the controllability factors on this gun are the Ergo-Grips provided. While not rosewood, cocobolo, ironwood or swanky and obscenely expensive ivory, these grips provide actual grip — go figure — they do what they are named for. Remember, this is a tactical gun not a safe queen. It’s purpose built.
Does It Shoot? Very well, thank you. SIG’s toler-
ances are a bit tighter than the origi- nal military 1911 design. Normally, tighter tolerances in a 1911 equated to suspect reliability. SIG seems to have found the “sweet-spot” with their
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