Yes, the Springfield Milspec and WWII milspec are very good guns and without a doubt, the best value out there for a .45 1911. I almost bought a WWII nilspec but was talked out of it by a gun dealer. These guns are made for a casual shooter and I wanted a pistol to shoot IPSC right out of the box so I ended up with a Loaded model. I still would like to get a WWII Milspec as they have a high 'coolness' factor to me. The downsides are that they have tiny sights, and the ejection port is not lowered like the rest of Springfield's models, so it will ding your brass up pretty bad, but this is only a problem if you plan on doing a lot of handloading for it. I'm not entirely sure if the throat on the WWII model has been ramped and polished either- but this won't be any kind of problem if one only shoots 230 gr FMJs through it. The Springfield Milspec is a similar pistol and costs a few bucks more, but has better sights and a lowered ejection port, and will eat any ammo that you feed it.
If you want a cool gun, get the WWII model, if you want a bang around, reliable gun that will do anything you want it to, get the standard milspec model.
And is the 1911 a good model gun?
The best, sort of like riding a Harley, people don't understand it until they tried it
