 Springfield Armory Emissary. First shot. Hey there friends thanks for checking in. Here is a Springfield Armory Emissary. Springfield released this July 28th 2021 and it is a beautiful 1911. It has all the modern features that shooters love while keeping that 1911 platform with a 5 inch barrel and a shooter right out of the case. I shot this so well I was just amazed. It is a nice 1911 handgun. Many modern features. I thought it would be cool to compare the differences between the emissary and some of the modern features with the Springfield Armory Millspec 1911. Now the Millspec the one that Springfield makes is as close as anywhere that you're going to find to a true John Browning Millspec 1911. Many reviews on several accounts from highly respected publications say that this is the closest that you are going to get so they are very different in many ways. Both excellent shooting handguns but let's check out some of those differences that the emissary offers compared to a Millspec 1911. Let's start with the grip. Check out that G10 grip. Not only is the color contrasted but the texturing on there is amazing and what they are able to accomplish with the flat main spring housing is that same texturing as well as the front strap. So when you grip this emissary it just feels so nice in the hand. If we look at the Millspec it has wood grips that have diamond checkering and a arched main spring housing does have some vertical serrations there but it is an arched main spring housing as where the emissary uses a flat main spring housing. No texturing in the front and the Millspec has a seven round magazine and the emissary comes with two eight round magazines. If we look at these you can see that the followers certainly are different as well as the base plate. Okay we can check it out. Maybe down here is a better look. You can see the difference there. An additional round with the newer emissary opposed to the Millspec model. Let's take a look at that slide. See that gloss finish and on top here it is a matte finish and it does have serrations on the top. If we look at the Millspec 1911 it has a parkerized finish and so it's no there is no reason to do a matte finish because the whole slide the whole frame everything is a parkerized finished and no serrations. If we look at the beaver tail you can see that you know it's not as long as what the emissary offers but the thumb safeties are very similar. Of course the placement is but the emissary is a larger thumb safety. Let me get a better view of that. Here is the thumb safety with the emissary and the thumb safety with the Millspec. Hopefully that will pick up. If we look at the slide serrations you can see that you know they the back in the day this was pretty standard. They just used vertical slide serrations and then with the emissary it has deep cut slide serrations that are very modern as well as forward serrations and of course you're not going to see that on the Millspec model. If we look at the business end of the pistol both these are unloaded by the way made sure of that. You can see that what Springfield offers is called a try cut as where with the Millspec 1911 it is rounded very different in many ways. Now you can see that it does have a barrel bushing on the right with the Millspec model the emissary uses a bull barrel that is bushing list and therefore the disassemble is quite different we're going to talk about that. On the dust cover there is a pick rail to add accessories not so much with the Millspec all right we wouldn't expect that but here we're talking modern features. The sight system they use a very similar sight system to the Hellcat does have a U dot I love this sight system they also have it on the elite models and a tritium front dot that is that has a luminescent outline just an amazing sight picture works great at the range the Millspec 1911 has three dots and you can see that it is a much thinner rear sight and then the front sight is is right there right into the slide as where this is much wider more heavier built and then of course if you look at the frame you can see the the color contrast with the emissary compared to the Millspec I've shot them both both on occasion you know several times and I I think they're great I'm a huge fan of 1911s and shooting the emissary was just so nice you know I love that single action trigger pull and then if we look at the trigger we will see that they went with a flat face trigger that I am measuring at four and a half pounds and it's a beautiful trigger right there with the reset right there for the follow-up shots the Millspec 1911 also has a single action trigger right it's 1911 but it is not a flat face but you know I don't have a problem with this I like the emissary one a little bit better but I am measuring that at four and three quarter pounds so not a great difference in terms of the trigger weight but we noticed that there are so many changes from the original design that Springfield offers with the emissary I mentioned that this has a bushingless bullbarrel as where the Millspec model has a bushing therefore the disassemble is a little different let's go ahead and check that out and I'll speed it up a bit here we can take a look at the hammers the Millspec model on the right uses a spurred hammer okay very very traditional as where it's a skeletonized hammer with the emissary and the trigger guard on the Millspec is rounded off as where the emissary uses a squared trigger guard both nice 1911 both their Springfield armory it just instills confidence but I will mention I shot the emissary so much better those modern features along with that flat trigger and the overall feeling function of the emissary just was so nice I cannot even explain you'll have to try it for yourself no arguments with the Millspec I think a lot of 1911 purists would choose the Millspec because it is the closest you're going to find to a Millspec original job browning design however if they give the emissary a try and they experience the same accuracy that I did it just might win them over if you like videos like this please subscribe and share I always appreciate thumbs up button thanks for watching and you guys be safe