Magnumite
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Springfield severed all ties with Brazil several years back. The forgings, who knows. There were several discussions about this in the 1911forum when the severance from IMBEL occurred. There a couple reliable speculations of the forging source.
The Ruger is a good platform to work from. With minimal improvements both monetarily and in work time one could end up with a nice pistol. I have a CMD, cost me $720, I put $130 into it, some time in labor and have a nice pistol that performs excellently. Bought a low round count used earlier full size SR1911 for $500. $145 and some labor later same thing. The barrel fit on the fullsize is not as good as the very good fit on the CMD, but it shoots well. They are both finished, as in don’t need to do more to them. They are $300 more than the Mil Spec Defender and it shows.
Still, the Mil Spec is the best game in town for the $$$.
The Ruger is a good platform to work from. With minimal improvements both monetarily and in work time one could end up with a nice pistol. I have a CMD, cost me $720, I put $130 into it, some time in labor and have a nice pistol that performs excellently. Bought a low round count used earlier full size SR1911 for $500. $145 and some labor later same thing. The barrel fit on the fullsize is not as good as the very good fit on the CMD, but it shoots well. They are both finished, as in don’t need to do more to them. They are $300 more than the Mil Spec Defender and it shows.
Still, the Mil Spec is the best game in town for the $$$.