Jboy, a short time ago I bought the Taurus PT-1911 for $585 new in the box. This pistol is simply every custom tuned feature you can imagine built at the factory into a newfull sized 45 auto. If you get a cheap or junker 45 and send it off to duplicate this PT-1911, you will spend something in the vicinity of $1,500, plus the cost or your original gun. MAYBE you will end up with something as nice as the Taurus is straight out of the box.

This is the first Taurus I've ever owned but I can tellanyone ifthey think Taurus is some little backwater factory with mule powered equipment down in the jungles of Brazil, you are sadly mistaken. Taurus has some of the most modern and hi-tech gun making equipment of anyone and many of their people were trained by Barretta when they made pistols for our military. Taurus today is one of the best firearms companies available.

The PT-1911 is, in my opinion, hands down the best guy value on the market today. My pistol is smooth as glass, never jams and I can sit at the bench and shoot groups with it all day long that are little more than one big jagged hole.

Do yourself a very big favor and check out this link before you do anything. Then make up your own mind.

http://www.taurususa.com/main/index.cfm?CFID=618576&CFTOKEN=11544655


If you want to see the gun in the flesh, I got mine at theAcademy Sportschainand they sell them about as fast as they can get them in stock.