 Hey there friends. Thanks for checking in today. We're looking at a Metro Arms American classic compact commander 1911 and all stainless steel heavy gloss model you may have seen these with All blue finish some have a blue frame with a stainless slide This is the all stainless model and it's just classy in my opinion I brought out another stainless to give a comparison. This is more of a matte finish on a Remington R1 1911 you can see the difference there all right the matte stainless and the heavy gloss The you have your options. I I like this. I don't have any like this You know and it just in my opinion is a touch of class now the Metro Arms American classic 1911's are made in the Philippines. They're very affordably priced All right, and you may notice that it has some How shall I say? Accentuated parts. All right, we'll just say that and I'll explain check out that trigger. Look at the additional cuts in the trigger that they did To make that a little unique does have serrated trigger face there and Those additional cuts also in the hammer there you see in the hammer Just things that make it a little bit different. You can see it does have the engraving there some of the older models have American classic Stamped all the way across the slide here. They made it smaller and put it right there Once again a classy look some people call that you know They put a billboard they put a billboard across the slide. I can't stand that well They they don't do that anymore because that looks very cool. Another thing is the wooden grip check that out Hand like a scalloped wood. It does say Metro Arms there with the M logo I like it. It gives it a nice look But I may replace that with G10 grip something like this would would be nice or even a You know a wood color with G10 But I have no complaints with those It has a 4.25 inch barrel and an officer size frame So with the officer size frame that means that the grip is a little shorter to suit CCW and what you're getting there is seven rounds of 45 ACP right shorter a Shorter grip one less round, but you know if you if you want You can always add the eight-round mag. All right, this is From the R1 and you can see that that would work just fine 1911 mags very interchangeable Makes it nice for range or or the spare mag But seven rounds 45 ACP. It does have three dot sights. No back style rear sights All right, you know ramps up a bit Dovetail front Doesn't have a flat main spring housing All right, and then you know no stippling or checkering or texturing it all on the front strap beaver tail safety and Thumb safety is on the left side. So no ambi thumb safety there It does have a I think I mentioned a 4.25 inch barrel with a partial length guide rod All right So it's more of a original a 70 series 1911 high gloss nice looking and now the Trigger I measure Right over five pounds like five and a quarter pounds. All right, so we just right there That's why I love that 1911 is that trigger no over travel Hardly any reset right there and a little over five pounds. So it's not one of those featherweight triggers Some are you know right between three three and a half pounds not one of those But it still has that single action pull that is very nice Let's go ahead and put it on the scale. It's an all steel frame right no aluminum here So it does have some weight behind it. We'll show the unloaded weight Two pounds four and five eight ounces. We move that to just ounces. We're looking at 30 36 and five eight, but let's go ahead and load Seven rounds I'll just grab them all over here 45 ACP a lot of guys, you know, they you would be shocked at how many people carry a 1911 we tend to think that You know Glock 19 is the primary carry in and it is there's no doubt about that Micro three eighties in the pocket of the backup. That's that's pretty standard, too but the people that carry a 1911 I wish we had numbers on that because I Think you'd be shocked Loaded weight is 41 and 7 8 ounces. Here is your carry round All right, three quarters of an ounce for 45 ACP half ounce for 9 millimeter 42 and 5 8 so you've got some weight behind this beauty But that's good Mitigate any recoil that the 45 offer heavy recoil spring right here All right, you gotta take some force to pull that back and the idea of a press check really isn't gonna happen You got a stainless slippery slide there. He most likely will just pull it back like that and then charge the gun Like that, but there it is Metro arms American classic 1911 a Nice-looking gun. I have to believe it's a nice shooting gun and not too hard on the wallet either right in the mid $600 will get you this model, which I think is Real sharp looking has class written all over it and I cannot wait to get this To the range if you like videos like this, please subscribe and share I always appreciate thumbs up button Thanks for watching and you guys be safe