After picking up a Dan Wesson Valor recently and getting bitten hard by the 1911 bug, I decided I needed a new 1911 that I could run hard, abuse, and not feel bad about roughing up a bit (unlike the Valor, which will be carried and shot, but treated relatively gently). I dug into my safe and traded one of my Berettas and a Smith that I rarely shot for a new Springfield TRP. I know Springfield has taken a PR hit due some boneheaded political decisions, but if it makes you feel better this gun predates that and has been sitting in the display case for a few years now.

Its built tight. Really tight. So tight that it would occasionally hang with the slide half retracted when working it by hand. Zero play in the slide or barrel hood. Trigger has just a little slop in fit to the frame and just a hair of takeup before the break. Clean 4.5 lb break with no noticeable over travel.

I'm not crazy about the front sight. The vial is inset a bit into the sight itself which makes the white outline invisible under some lighting conditions. This makes the front sight hard to pick up compared to the obvious rear dots. It's annoying, but not a deal breaker.

Here she is after her first 150 rounds. No failures of any kind and the barrel lockup seems to have broken in niceley as it now cycles much smoother. Still no perceptible play.



And how does she shoot? First 8 rounds at 10 yds...



She shoots a bit high, especially at 25yds(I'm not sure about the 6 oclock hold) but the pulling left is all me. Been awhile since I ran a 1911 and I'm getting too much finger on the trigger.

Overall I couldn't be more pleased.

Very nice, thanks for sharing.

Hmmm . . . One hole. Looks like its key-holing and the sights are off significantly to get the rest all the way off the target. I'd sell it. Look, I'll be fair and give you $200 for that obvious POS. Cash even. Or trade it even across the board for a rare hand-raised rosy boa constrictor I have.

But seriously looks great! I wish Springfield would offer their TRP pistols in 9mm.

Oh its awful alright. Look how much those groups open up when I start shooting quickly on the right side targets. Springfield should be ashamed...

WOW!!!!

Very nice shooting.

Congrats! I love my TRP!

Very, very nice! Great shooting!

The TRP is a very nice 1911. You will get years of enjoyment out of it. I have a TRP Operator full rail that is really nice to shoot.

Congratulations on the new TRP & nice shooting! I have over 10k rounds through mine & it's been totally reliable. The very first thing I did with mine was replace the guide rod with a GI style rod/spring/plug. Some folks like the one piece rods, though.

A coworker has a TRP Operator that initially was fitted extremely tight. That one would not run without stoppage in its first couple of boxes of ammo. He stopped after that first session and complained to Springfield only to have them throw it back, "Keep shooting it. It'll come." My coworker was understandably put off by that retort and it took him several months to get over it, but he finally took it out to 'persevere' and break-in the gun. He told me at about 450-500 rounds the gun finally began to run consistently without stoppage.

This was about six or seven years ago, about the time I first started working at the shop. Now that gun really IS a sweetheart of a shooter. I still detest SA and especially their CEO/owner but even I have to admit that they make some really nice 1911s. And that one gun was the instigator that convinced me that I should by a 1911 for myself. That first Loaded that I had (Brazilian) didn't quite work out for me, but the three 1911s I do own (none SAs, btw) are keepers.