Springfield Armory’s 1911-A1 Range Officer Elite Compact made of a lightweight alloy frame and steel slide. With the Range Officer Elite Compact having a 4” barrel and being so lightweight, it is a great carry gun that is designed to be heavily used. The Range Officer Elite Compact features a memory bump on the beavertail grip safety that allows the shooter to easily get the same grip each time, tactical ledge white-dot rear sight and fiber optic front sight for quick sight pictures, ambidextrous thumb safety and a Gen 2 trigger.
Features:
- Stainless Steel match Grade Barrel
- Fully Supported Ramp
- Bull Barrel
- Extended Beavertail Safety
- Ambidextrous Thumb Safety
- Flat Wire recoil spring
- Full Length Guide Rod
- Lightweight Forged Alloy Frame
- Forged Steel Slide with Black-T finish
- Gen 2 Trigger
- Skeletonized Hammer
- Height: 5"
- Length: 7.6"
About Springfield Armory
In 1777, just after the start of the American Revolution George Washington established the United States' first armory in Springfield, Massachusetts. The Springfield Armory during the Revolutionary War was used as a site to secure ammunition and gun carriages vital to the struggle for independence. After the Revolutionary War, the Springfield Armory began manufacturing muskets for the new nation and quickly became a center for weapons development in the United States for nearly two centuries, producing some of the nation's most prolific firearms including the M1911 pistol, M1 Garand rifle, and the M14 rifle..
After the Springfield Armory was closed in 1968 by the federal government, the Reese family of Geneseo, Illinois licensed the name and insignia of Springfield Armory. Since then the company has dedicated itself to protecting the legacy of the Springfield Armory by continuing to develop high quality firearms and reproducing some of the Armory's most famous firearms like the 1911 pistol and their semi-automatic version of the M14, the M1A rifle. Springfield Armory has won multiple American Rifleman's Golden Bullseye Awards and has become one of the largest firearm manufactures in the world.