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Aaron Cowan has his 2,000 round review of the MAC available for Patreon subscribers. He likes the gun. It shot well for him and he had no issues with the mount holding zero through his drop tests. The only thing he really complained about is the heavy factory recoil spring. Also the trigger on his gun is five or so pounds. Both issues are pretty easily corrected but he's going to leave the gun stock. At least for the time being. He's also maybe going to send it to Joe Chambers so a gunsmith can get a good look at what's inside.

https://youtu.be/ZhHE_7YA3qg?si=zbHqm8n9TeLao4SO

https://youtu.be/8s1TVS1-JEs?si=EvjCPiwF0LpPb7ly

I was playing around a little with options on the Caspian website. A checkered Recon Rail frame and a slide cut for the RMR Trijicon adapter plate with front and rear cocking serrations is pretty close in price to this complete pistol from SIG.

Sub compact tiny 45 Autos fall into this category. "Yeah that would be cool! I'd love to see an ultra tiny 45 Auto!" This is followed by, "Hey this thing kicks like a mule!" With all that said, adding an optic cut and/or rail to the legacy 1911 is a pretty conservative step. This was radical or blasphemous ten or fifteen years ago but I think the market is ready now.

Yes I'm sure 45 and 1911 are still essentially synonymous with each other. I didn't mean to imply that SIG should ignore 45 but rather they should make the 1911-X in 9mm as well. SIG is supposed to have a 4.25" version of this new gun coming to market soon. I assume it will be steel frame. I think a lightweight Commander length gun with an optic cut and a flashlight rail might make a nice general carry gun. You're right that optics ready single stacks are kind of a rare bird. Frankly I'm shocked Springfield didn't add the Prodigy optic plate system into the 2024 TRP update.

This isn't likely aimed at the Brain Enos crowd since it doesn't really fit into any of the USPSA or IDPA divisions. I guess it could be used in CDP as long as it makes weight or L-10 if people still shoot that. Is there a chance this was spec'ed out for some law enforcement contract submission? 1911s still seem to be fairly popular with cops in California. Maybe some agency's SWAT team was interested in buying some optic ready 45s for team use and this was SIG's answer. I do agree that SIG is missing the boat here by not offering essentially this same gun in 9mm and/or as a hicap.

Something I found on my MAC is that the height of the lobe that keeps the slide stop from coming out is off. The lobe is about .243" tall while other slide stops I have measure .01-.015 taller. This means the slide stop can be pushed out of the gun whatever position the slide is in.

Bushings aren't particularly difficult to fit however the Girsan part is a bit unique. It appears to be shorter than a commander length and will take some shortening to fit. Note that the 4.25" Girsan is government model in stroke but is actually commander in length. To accomplish this Girsan simply took a 5" slide and cut it off three quarters of an inch. As a result there won't really be any OEM style parts available. A replacement barrel would need to be a 5" with the correct government lower lugs but then chopped at the muzzle, etc.

My particular Girsan's bushing is sloppy in terms of fit to the slide and fit to the barrel. The bushing itself can be moved around inside the slide. The barrel can also be wiggled around inside the bushing when the slide is in battery. The pistol has been reliable through about 1,300 rounds but is probably about a 3.5 or 4" gun at 25 yards.

How's the general barrel fit? On my Girsan the barrel bushing was pretty much just there to keep the recoil spring plug in place.

Nice. Has anyone been able to confirm other than MAC? These are the guys who said the gun used an aluminum frame (later confirmed to be steel) and that the RMR plate had sights tall enough to work with most RMR pattern optics.

Has anyone confirmed yet that the rear sight on the RMR plate is actually a Glock dove tail cut?