I give this product 5 stars for its value for cost. I also wanted the brass beed front sight that this one has and I%u2019m glad I went this route when choosing an HP clone.
This is my review after 3 range trips within 3 weeks of owning this pistol and I have fired 400rds. Fit & finish are exceptional in my opinion. Classic lines for a true classic! Being my first HP type pistol I wasn%u2019t too sure what to expect as far as shoot ability, 7lb SA trigger sounded pretty crazy to me. After my first dry fire session those concerns went out the window. Best way I can explain it is a good/crisp 7lb trigger will beat a bad 4lb trigger any day! Feels a lot less but also not exactly like a 1911 trigger.
During dry fire I did notice the trigger return wasn%u2019t too strong, which was a concern. So before firing I did a deep strip thinking the trigger return spring was bad. In short the trigger pin was pushed to far to the left which probably happened during transport so after reassembling I pushed the pin to the correct spot and where the spring now sits in the small radius on the pin as it should and that issue went away.
I watched a lot of BHSpring videos and noticed that this pistol was ejecting brass at about 12%u2019 which they claim is right at the end of what is in spec, load was 124gr @ 1,160FPS. So I ordered a new 17lb and 18.5lb recoil spring. Ejection is now 8%u2019-11%u2019 with both and also not that much of a difference.
Now for the bad, the factory magazines. Definitely does not run 100% and even though they say %u201Cmade in Italy%u201D on them they definitely are not Mec-Gar magazines. I get about 1 failure to feed every time I load them. True Mec-Gar magazines have been 100% and never experienced any malfunction with those. So last range session I took the spring out of the Mec mag and put it in the factory mag, mec spring was a good inch to inch and a half longer, and still got the same feeding jam, 2 jams after loading the mag 3 times. Another interesting note was the brass seemed to eject further when using the factory mag, something I need to test more of on my next range session.
So buy with confidence and know that you will enjoy this pistol as much as I have! Just also keep in mind that you might need quality Mec-Gar mags which you should have regardless.

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