While I shoot my Staccato P Duo more, I love running 1911's fast and hard too. I am contemplating using the Trophy Match for some USPSA Single Stack Div. (I’ve always been a CO and now Limited Optics shooter).

I currently carry the operator in a Tenicor Velo4 that double duties with the Staccato. The TM will get rotated in occasionally, because even though I'm a dot guy, you gotta stay proficient with irons!

The TM recently got back from getting cerakoted. I installed the flat triggers and Ed Brown ambi safeties. Other than that, they're stock internally. The TM is also wearing Woodcaliber Walnut grips that I stained.

Dave Laubert of Defensive Creations installed the CC RDSM Plate. He did an excellent job.

Trophy Match is an awfully nice gun to subject it to the beating it will take by being a match gun in USPSA, IMO. I had the stainless model & thought it was more geared to a bullseye type of match instead?

Meh. Just markings. It’s essentially a TRP with different markings. But with an adjustable sight essentially. It has some sentimental value to me hence why I kept it instead of offloading for something different. Plus I dig Springfields 20lpi checkering!

Geared how? What is nice about them? I thought they were a pretty plain gun but maybe I'm misremembering.


I was thinking stainless target with checkering or along those lines. If that's the same checkering they used on the TRP guns I hated it. Too agressive for me.

When a company puts the words "Trophy Match" on the slide of a nice 1911, I take that to mean it's more accurate than their average, run-of-the-mill 1911 model. Better fitting, better quality bbl perhaps, better bushing, etc. Hence the higher price, or at least I would think so. I do know mine was a boatload times more accurate than my mil-surp model was before I swapped out the barrel/bushing.

Of course, I could be wildly out in right field on this too.    

But how would any of that not be good for USPSA?

Just saying that beating to death a nice accurate 1911 isn't the same as beating a mil-spec 1911. Just as I wouldn't want to shoot one of my Baer's at a match, although they'd probably shrug it off with their tightness of build. Gotta love a Baer, IMO.

I guess I don’t get it. You don’t want to use match guns for matches. To me that’s the point of their existence. Nobody I shot with used the equivalent of a mil spec.

That doesn't make any sense

A bullseye match is in fact considered by everyone as indeed being a match. Slow rd of fire, low rd count. That's what the Trophy Match was designed for, IMO. Can it do other things? Certainly, as almost all guns can.