I don’t Know about the current line but a XO series stainless steel has no MIM parts and I believe are all hand fitted. Front strap checkering comes standard. For the price, it is hard to beat unless your talking above 1,500
they are series 80’s, but Only the most astute could tell from the trigger.
oh and “some” holsters won’t fit due to the sig style slide.... it may be a tad heavier than a standard 1911 (unconfirmed)
I've got the opposite opinion. I think they are a poor value for the money. They are not bad guns, but you are paying for Sig lifestyle marketing.
Not sure if they still do, but at one time they had started making them with a normal slide profile option to fit standard holsters.
does kimber still use plastic in the mainspring housings? Some of the higher dollar options IMHO are over priced. Hell I’ve seen old RIA’s tweaked and ran smoother than some newer less maintained limbers and springfields.
to that point. I believe (to a degree) it’s more about the person maintaining and caring for the 1911 than the maker.
I have a railed nickel Sig 1911 and it’s been a great gun. For the money, Sig puts out a great 1911. The $900 that the railed nickel cost me got me a whole lot more than the $800 Kimber I used to have. The Sig came with front strap checkering, night sights, extended controls, G10 grips a stainless MSH, flat wire recoil spring, a mag well and NP3 finish.
The Kimber came with a plain front strap, extended controls, regular 3 dot sights, a plastic MSH, rubber grips a short change interval recoil spring and a finish about as durable as silver crayons. I bought night sights for the Kimber ($120), a stainless MSH ($36), G10 grips ($65), a Wilson Combat flat wire spring kit ($80) and bead blasted the finish off of it. It was a great gun at that point but my point is that the Sig needed nothing.
The Sig internals were MIM and I eventually did a trigger job using all EGW internals. It’s among my favorite 1911s now and is a heck of a good shooter. The slide fit is really done well and feels like it’s on bearings. Most of my other 1911s are DW and the Sig compares well to any of them.
I think they do. Kimber is the worst way to spend 1911 money imo.
so sig does use some MIM?! My XO didn’t have any.... perhaps it’s the newer lines, or differing lines....
still worth a look. I’ve lately taken a liking to the ruger sr1911 lines. At least for entry level edc. I don’t believe in safe queens OR is safe queen pricing
There earlier stuff was non mim, and then they later quietly started using just as much mim as the Affordable brands.
Personally I'm fine with mim parts.
I've taken a look at the MIM parts that are being used. From an engineering standpoint many are ok since they dont take the brunt of the impact, If i could choose between no MIM and MIM for the same cost.. yeah, no MIM all the way, but for the cost I'll run MIM and slowly upgrade my parts. Isnt that kinda the 1911 way?