Question about these guns, do the higher dollar units like this one have a 1 piece barrel instead of the 2 piece barrel like the lower guns in the SA product lineup?

I like the TRP

Springfield uses a two piece barrel that some in the trade have criticized. Actually there are lots of guns with two piece barrels, so it is a "problem" only if it's done wrong. The recoil spring system is, again, GI with a conventional guide and plug.

Here you can see the stainless steel barrel in the Mil-Spec from SA. Note the "loaded indicator" slot in the barrel hood.  Chambered cartridges are easy to see.  I can live with or without it but it has caused no problems. Initially I had thought that this was a one-piece barrel, but barely visible about midway between the "O" in "Auto" and the end of the chamber area of this barrel you can see the hairline where the two pieces are joined. I have heard of one or two of these barrels coming apart

Whatever you do don’t buy a two-piece barrel and I would recommend replacing the two-piece barrel that comes in the Springfield Armory guns immediately.


I did a quick Google search on SA two piece barrel and got the above, I know it has been talked about on these boards before, I know people on these boards start getting failures to fire and the barrel separates,  What I did not know is if the higher dollar SA models also use the 2 piece barrel. The cheaper std. models and loaded models were never in doubt about being 2 piece.

Well here is one, I have never owned or looked at a 2 piece barrel. When I suggested this as the problem for this guy it was because of past stories of this happening on this board, but the search function does not go back that far.

www.ar15.com/forums/topic.html?b=5&f=49&t=23200

I am still interested in knowing from someone who owns the more expensive SA guns if they use the 2 piece barrel or not.

I went to the 1911 web forums and did find that the TRP and upper end models use a Nowlin one piece barrel.

So that's a good thing.