Got a good look at it yesterday, Yesterday I traded for a new .45 auto, my choices were a springfield 1911-a1 or a colt 1911-a1, side by side I was frankly shocked at the diffrence,The springfield was all steel, and TIGHT, no play in the slide,The colt was almost as tight, but the finish looked like it was painted on,and it had a PLASTIC trigger!!!and a PLASTIC mainspring housing!!!! A plastic trigger? the most important part of any gun and it's plastic??? Have their engineers been taking stupid pills or what?? and the finish, it looked like someone painted it on with some flat black paint, Needless to say the springfield went home with me,The more I look at this springfield, the more I'm impressed with the quality, I've been reading for some time here on this board about how Colt is more or less circling the drain, now I know what you guys mean, and to top it off, the colt cost more, I don't think I'll be buying any colts any time soon.