![]() Included with each gun were two magazines, a 17- and a 20-rounder, as well as an optic mounting plate. The only pops of color are the stainless barrel and the green fiber-optic front sight. For a shooter that loves pairing raw performance with pure utility, the black Cerakote-finished metal and black polymer grip ticked the box for a business-like exterior. When I first opened the box, I was immediately taken by the Prodigy’s blacked-out aesthetic. A Hex Dragonfly plate is included from the factory for mounting, which shares the footprint of the Vortex Venom and Burris Fastfire series. Wilson’s utilize a modified rendition of Walther’s PPQ magazine the others use dual-column magazines that taper sharply to a single-stack funnel at the top.Įnter Springfield Armory’s all-new 1911 DS platform, where the “DS” stands for “double stack.” First out of the gate for this new family of pistols is the Prodigy, a 9mm hammer-fired semiauto available as a full-size model with a 5-inch barrel or a 41/4-inch variation with a shorter barrel and slide assembly.Ĭo-witnessing is possible with a dot sight. The most notable players in the category include Wilson Combat’s EDC X9 ($3,145) and SFX9 ($2,995), Staccato’s 2011s and Nighthawk Custom’s TRS ($4,399) pistols and double-stack-upgraded 1911s. ![]() So, where’s the rub? Why do we need another entrant in this niche category? In a word: price. And the quest for more capacity, aided by a long list of pioneers and innovators, mostly from the competition realm, has finally yielded double-column magazines that both work and are capable of reliably feeding ramped 1911 barrels. In 9x19mm, the impulse is negated almost entirely.įor these reasons, and the overall improvement in ammunition, the 9mm 1911 has surged to prominence. The added heft of mostly metal guns also helps to soak up recoil and reduce muzzle flip. ![]() The way the M1911 platform interfaces with the user is the standard against, which all other pistols are measured, particularly the straight-pull single-action trigger. Without getting bogged as to why 9mm Model 1911s and their high-capacity 2011 kin are all the rage, let’s simply bow our heads briefly to the memory of John Moses Browning and acknowledge that the man knew how to design a hand tool. It allows for optic mounting on the forged carbon-steel slide. A collaboration with Agency Arms produced the interchangeable plate system for the 1911 DS.
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