Not with this pistol, as after 350 rounds there was no hand tenderness. Spend a week at a defensive-handgun course with a sharply checkered 1911, and you’ll have tape on your hands by day four. I found the skip-line fluting more comfortable, but just as effective as, checkering. I would have preferred thinner grips, but the pistol felt amazingly good in the hand, no doubt due to the bobtail feature. It’s shipped in a black plastic case and comes with two nickel-plated, eight-round magazines, a cleaning cloth, cleaning rod, bore brush, gun lock and owner’s manual. The entire pistol is finished in black Cerakote and comes with grey/black G10 grips with a deep indention just to the rear of the magazine release. The pistol is fitted with an ambidextrous safety, a commander-style hammer and an upswept, beavertail grip safety with a large memory pad. There’s also a serrated top rib behind and in front of the flared, lowered and scalloped ejection port. To match the large relief area on the side of the slide, the top has machined relief cuts to give the slide a triangular appearance. It provides plenty of area for hooking the slide on a belt or boot for one-hand operation, and mates very well with the green fiber-optic front sight that’s also dovetailed in place. The rear sight fits into a Novak-style dovetail and is a ledged, U-notch battlesight, with a serrated face, thankfully without those useless dots. Though I’m sure it minutely reduces weight, it is more of a cosmetic cutout that pairs well with the end-mill cut forward and aft slide serrations. The pistol’s slide has a center relief area that’s about a half-millimeter deep. To reduce printing, the rear of the grip wears a bobtail cut.Fluted to cut weight, the barrel contributes to aesthetics.Generous and sculpted, the grip safety and high beavertail functioned as expected.Two 8-round magazines are included, but might warrant replacement with superior models.Light and crisp, the skeletonized trigger allowed for precise shooting This means the Bantam Carry does not have the trigger-actuated, firing-pin safety, which is known for drastically inhibiting a quality trigger pull. But, unlike many modern renditions of this classic, this pistol has what are known as 70-series internals. It’s built around an aluminum frame, with a hammer-forged, Commander-length slide and barrel. The 1911 Bantam Carry 45 is SDS Imports’ take on this iconic pistol. It became one of the most revered carry guns of all time. In 1950, Colt introduced its Lightweight Commander, which was a 1911 with an aluminum frame and 4.25-inch barrel. The latest model is the 1911 Bantam Carry 45. They range in price from around $400 to $1,200. Now SDS Imports is bringing about a dozen variations of the 1911 into the country. SDS Imports changed that by sending American-trained engineers and skilled shooters to Tisas to guide the company through the manufacturing process. Tisas was established in 1993 and has produced quite an array of handguns and infantry rifles. SDS Imports, located in Knoxville, TN, recognized this, and by working with Tisas, a Turkish-based firearm manufacturer, set out to offer quality 1911s at affordable prices. The truth is, there’s still a demand for the old warhorse, especially compact and lightweight variants in the original. Given that landscape, it might seem odd a company would invest in the production of a new line of 1911 handguns. A decade later, subcompact polymer-pistols chambered in 9 mm have become the most popular handguns for self-defense. About the time of the 1911’s 100th birthday, we were solidly in the age of the polymer pistol.
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