Okay Tackdriver,
Here's my 2cents. I've "heard" good things about the Rock River. That's not worth very much, I admit. There are a LOT of people in here who swear by their Springfields. I've got one. It has been a problem child from day one. Great looking pistol (stainless, "Loaded" model), but it has always been tempermental about it's ammo. It went back to Springfield once for a "reliability package" and a trigger job. It does have a very nice trigger, but it has never been particularly reliable. It isn't very accurate either. I did some bench shooting with it on Saturday. My best group was 3.25". This was with a 975ft/sec 200 gr. Hornady handload. My worst groups (the majority) with hardball were too big to measure (5", 6", 7"!!). I've had it with this pistol. It's on the chopping block right now (time to "cull" the herd). Oh yeah, I almost forgot to mention the best part. This thing creates vicious "stovepipes" every one hundred rounds or so. Probably a faulty extractor (I say this because I've tried everything else). At any rate, the jam that results is/was so bad that I had to use my Swiss Army Knife to clear the pistol and a new Wilson Combat magazine ended up in the trash! One good thing I can tell you about the Springfields, custom gunsmiths will work on them. Bill Wilson says he will in his cataloge, etc... You'll probably NEED these guys if you buy one! Good luck, I've decided to take my Colt Gold Cup out of its "cosmoline" long term storage (Originally, I bought it as a "keeper" not intending to shoot it).