Ruger’s Custom Shop provided us with a beautiful two-tone Officer’s Style SR1911. The gun has a stainless steel slide and frame coated with black nitride. The slide’s flats are then polished for a pleasing two-tone finish. The Custom Shop flat tops the slide and serrates it. The low-profile rear sight is adjustable for both windage and elevation, and the front sight has a Tiritum dot for low-light fighting. It uses an internal style or traditional extractor and an extended ejector. Our test sample is chambered for .45 ACP, and the gun comes with two 7-round stainless steel magazines. The stainless steel, match-quality barrel is bushingless in design and has a supported chamber. The trigger is flat faced, which feels surprisingly good and is adjustable for overtravel. It tracks effortlessly in its raceway, there is no horizontal or vertical play, and it breaks with 3.25 pounds of pressure. The gun features an abbreviated grip frame, and the frontstrap is checkered at 30-lpi. It also has a high sweep beavertail with a memory bump and a beveled magazine well. Ruger undercuts the frame where it meets the triggerguard so shooters can get a higher grip on the gun. The gun also features ambidextrous extended thumb safeties and a finely checkered magazine housing that is rounded to prevent clothes from hanging up on it when worn concealed. Despite its abbreviated size, the Custom Shop gun feels surprisingly good in the hand.
I tested the SR1911 Officers at 15-yards because of its shorter barrel length. Its trigger made it an easy chore to shoot small groups, and the three-group aggregate was just 1.02 inches. There were no malfunctions or stoppages of any sort. Ruger’s Custom shop builds fine pistols, and the SR1911 is just one example of the extraordinary work they do!
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