Cimarron 1911 blue polished full#First I pulled it out and shot 3 magazines full after a CAS shoot a few weeks ago. Update: Well, I put a few rounds through the new guy. They are also slightly thinner and less aggressive texturing than the ones that came on the polished gun. The grips it came with were sort of mustard colored. The pictured grips did not come with the gun. I will probably shoot it in the next WB match to give it a better workout. I ran three magazines of my 230gr WB ammo through it with no problems. I cleaned the gun and took it to a CAS match this past weekend so I could give it a quick try after the match. The thumb safety on the new gun is considerably more difficult to push up - hopefully that will ease up. The sights are a little different, even smaller and thinner front sight on the polished gun, but the rear is wider so it is actually a better sight picture. The polished trigger is shorter (I really like the longer one). The ejection port on the polished is lowered the same amount as the nickled, but has less radius in the corners on the right side of the slide. I'm not sure if these sort of differences are just random gun to gun, or if the base model has changed somewhat over those years. But I am noticing some small differences in the guns. They both started life as the "parkerized" (matte finish) guns from Armscor, and went to Ford Plating in Florida for polish and plating. So, with the excuse that I should own a backup WB gun, I finally got the polished model as well. When I bought it, I was torn between the nickle model and the polished blue model. I have done very little "practice" with it, mostly shooting at matches, so have a mere 1975 rounds through it. I had a 4" Kimber since 1999 but needed a government size for Wild Bunch. It was just over 8 years ago I bought my nickle 1911.
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