Springfield Armory TRP Operator: A hard to find masterpiece. Best production 1911?
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- Опубліковано 6 сер 2024
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I luckily bought that exact model in 2017 after I got home from a deployment. That was the one thing I was excited to purchase once I got home. Money well spent
Absolutely a fabulous 1911. Thanks for watching and commenting and please be sure to subscribe if you haven’t already
I absolutely love this 1911! Well built and extremely accurate.
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First up.. Great video and a fine pistol. I have a TRP in standard government. Same finish and same grips. I absolutely love it. You nail it in comparison to any other bottom end 1911. It definitely is a thing of beauty. It's tight and solid. I didn't really care for the full length guide rod so I went GI with flat wire recoil spring bumped up a notch. Wilson Combat part's. 10-8 plug. Chews up any ammo I feed it.
It’s still my favorite 1911 to date and I have $2500 Dan Wessons. Thanks for watching and taking time to comment and please be sure to subscribe if you haven’t already
I'm looking at one of these. Thanks for the video.
You better hurry up it’s discontinued. Thanks for watching and commenting and be sure to subscribe if you haven’t already. Thanks again
I’ve been trying to find one of these for years! My FFL guy has searched all over with no luck. And no, I don’t buy from auction sites. The TRP is without a doubt my favorite 1911! I have a non railed version that I had redone in black nitride and worked over by Nighthawk.
I’ll take that off your hands if you get bored with it 😉
I literally have written on the paperwork for it in the fireproof document safe the words…”my pride and joy.” Good grief I lol this 1911 and can’t wait to shoot it again. Thanks for watching and we hope you will subscribe if your aren’t already. Sorry if I’ve ask you that before but it’s hard to keep track lol. Thanks again
@@GSquaredTactical subbed awhile ago!
Thank you sir
I could possibly sell one of my TRPs. I have a full rail or normal operator rail
Great review
Thank you sir
My favorite pistol…Such a well built 1911. I’m also from NC…need to find a nice outside range like you have
Yeah we are blessed to have it for sure. It’s a 3 acre area the family owes in Dallas, NC
Great video. I’d like to pick one up someday. I recently picked up a Springfield Vickers Tactical Master Class and am absolutely blown away by the quality! The checkering pattern used on the front strap and mainspring housing is the most comfortable yet functional pattern I’ve ever felt on a 1911. The only thing I would change on it is to add a magwell. I’m going to order a one piece bulletproof mainspring/magwell from Wilson Combat soon. I don’t personally care for ambi safeties, so I’m happy the master class model only comes with a safety on the left side. It also came from the factory with some bulletproof parts from Wilson Combat, as well as a Vickers Tactical rear battle sight and a HD tritium front sight, which is my favorite sight configuration. Fantastic pistol, but is not cheap, at $1,495 msrp, if you can find one. I got lucky to find one in a local shop in Lake Havasu City, AZ. In my opinion, it’s absolutely worth every cent!
I don’t care for ambi safety either but being a more tactical safety makes it better. Easier to ride the thumb on top. Thanks for watching and commenting and be sure to subscribe if you haven’t already. Thanks again
Very smooth shooter. mine is in 10mm. Loves the Cobra Mags too.
Man I wish I could find one in 10mm
I own a TRP and i Purchased it around the same time as you. I bought mine in January 2017 and the engraving on my slide and barrel is 25. Yours is 26. So we are likely gun brothers! As far as Press checking to see if you have chambered a round, I feel the same way you do. But my training in the military always included a press check, so I just do it, out of habit, immediately after chambering a round to ensure it went in there. I don't know why I was trained this way, I guess enough people screw it up to cause training to include this, but this is what I do.
Yeah I’m mostly just giving people a hard time about the press checking lol. I’m just old school is all it boils down to really. Thanks for watching and commenting and be sure to subscribe if you haven’t already. Thanks again
I own one and hands down it is my favorite shooting pistol. With that said I’m on the fence about spending the crazy amount of money and buying a staccato P with RMR and using that as my duty pistol. Or just carrying the TRP with extra 10 RD mags on me.
I (Gene) am going with the TRP all day
Hope you kept the irons on!
I wish Springfield would bring this one back. They still make the full rail version, but this one was the coolest.
Man I wish that as well I’d buy it same day they made it lol. Thanks for watching and be sure to subscribe and follow us on Rumble at rumble.com/v28e28x-sig-sauer-p938-legion-beast-at-the-range-or-a-disappointment-lets-find-out..html
This is a great pistol. Shot 50 yards with 1.5" avg from my target. Stop using mine and neglected it for 10+ years due to poor customer service. Neglected it... but after watching this video I think I'll finally put in 500 rounds into the pistol. My baby is still a baby.
Let us know how it goes. Sorry to hear about your experience
I was at my gun dealer this past weekend to complete background check on a few rifle purchase. I am also in the market for a 1911 45 acp pistol. first showed me a couple of Kimbers, too large of a handle grip, then a sig. Then she pulled this springfield 45 acp and she said the same thing as you mentioned in your video, as how "smooth" this handgun is compared to the other two with almost no recoil! she highly recommended it and it was the only one they had. Asking price $1,499. From research I have done it seems like a reasonable price. I have to go back in another week and half to pick up my rifles, and if it is still there I will go ahead and purchase it.
The TRP has been discontinued so it’s a gem if you find one. If you don’t buy it tell me where it is so I can lol. Thanks for watching and commenting and please be sure to subscribe if you haven’t already
@@GSquaredTactical I had checked with her over the weekend and she had it still in stock and was going to talk to her manager to start a layaway plan, Then this morning I got an email stating it was sold yesterday, Sunday. I guess I will be looking at gunbroker to find one. They were asking for $1,499.
That was on the high end but not crazy expensive I paid $1349 plus tax for mine
Damn ... So glad I saw this before selling my half rail and full rail TRP. lol
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I’ve now owned mine for about 4 years. (Full rail)
Plenty of rounds thru and still yet to find any type of hang ups or anything. I’ve only added different grips (magpull all black slim grip w/ a nice WIDE low valley for thumb lay & mag relase accessibility) - as you see on the oem grips the valley for mag release is very small. Magpull will fit your full thumb in the valley.
and a TLR-2.High Lumen -
Weight of the light helps recoil even more ofc.
I still need to get the Dawson guide rod.. making a tool out of a paper clip for breaking the gun down is a little annoying.
Been on the fence for a while of wanting to send it out and go full send… but as I’ve found, I bought a really good first pistol😅 and there hasn’t been many if hardly any that had any type of work done and put on UA-cam for us others to see so .
Given that it’s been permanently discontinued I’d probably leave it as is lol. Thanks for watching and commenting and please be sure to subscribe if you haven’t already
damn i sold mine about 2yrs ago for 2k. i bought it in 2019 for 1100 2nd hand and got it hard chromed. now im missing having that sweet 1911.
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They still make the TRP it isn't discounted just hard to get.
Yeah we was fed false information I’ve saw them on store shelves since. I need to change the title of this video. Thanks for pointing that out and please be sure to subscribe if you haven’t already
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Made a good choice lol. Thanks for watching and commenting and be sure to subscribe if you haven’t already. Thanks again
That's what I told you a while back about if you can get your hands on one, get it. I think it is going to be a marketing plan for supply and demand to be honest.
We’ve since bought another one used lol
I bought mine in 2015. It still sits in its case. I have never fired it or removed it or any of its accessories from the case. I bought the Dawson Precision Tool-Less Guide Rod. But I have not installed it. I even bought a couple of idiot scratch protectors. I will probably never fire it. It looks so nice in its case. I have plenty of other firearms to shoot. So it’s life will be as a safe queen.
Why did you decide on that? Thanks for watching and commenting and please be sure to subscribe if you haven’t already.
@@GSquaredTactical Taking it apart and dealing with the guide rod was the first initial motivating factor for not shooting it. Which is why I bought the Dawson tool. But since I have not installed it, the firearm sits.
I never intended it to be a carry gun. I was only going to use it for recreational range time. I have plenty of other firearms to shoot that are less cumbersome to clean, and I enjoy shorting. Mostly 9mm. I will grab my Colt MK IV Series 70 or my Glock 30S if I want to plink .45. But it is rare I do that. So there it sits part of a firearms collection.
I am waiting the return of my CZ P01 from Cajun Gun Works. This is my current carry gun. So my immediate future time will be spent operating that firearm to get proficient with its new features. Otherwise, I am happy to own the TRP, if only because it is a great firearm.
A man after my own heart lol. CZ is my (Gene) favorite brand. I don’t carry the TRP but it is a nightstand rotation gun and an occasional truck gun. I’ve probably shot it more than any gun I own it was such a blast to shot.
The Professional is way more tightly fit and I’m almost positive it has a different finish on it than the TRP, so I can’t agree that the TRP is practically the same, but i do agree that it is a tremendous pistol, and it’s a pretty solid stand in for someone who doesn’t want to spend $3k on a Pro. I think you are correct in saying that the TRP could be the finest production pistol you can get, although Dan Wesson is a pretty solid contender to stake that claim as well.
I also completely agree with you about the silliness of the press check. You should know the condition of your firearms. The only scenario I could see where press checks would be useful would be if you were in a gun fight and picked up someone else’s gun and needed to verify whether or not it was loaded. And since 99.99% of us are not John Wick and are incredibly unlikely to ever be in that scenario, I don’t see it as something I’ll ever need.
I enjoyed your presentation. You are well-spoken and you seemed confident in the subject matter. Nicely done!
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First off you need to understand why. Press checking is common training these days because everyone who CC SHOULD have one in the chamber. It’s the BEST habit to always check your firearm before holstering to get into the habit of making sure it’s loaded. I get if you’re a civilian and are just fudding around at the range you won’t care about press checks. But for duty use, every morning before you go out you press check that fire arm like clockwork making sure you have one in the chamber and ready to go when needed.
@@ScarletGuts I understand why people press check, but I stand by what I said. Any of MY guns that are sitting in my safe are loaded and ready to go. I always know the condition of MY guns, therefore a press check is not necessary. If I pick up someone else’s gun, then I see why it would be a good idea since you don’t know the condition of someone else’s gun. If press checking makes you feel more confident in your gun then press check away. I have yet to have one of my guns unload itself so I will choose not to.
The thing is this isn’t something people have always done and if they did they done it from the rear. I don’t remember if it was Colin Noir or someone else, but some famous person started doing that maybe it was on a movie and the next thing you know everyone is doing it. I literally see people at the range who look as though they’ve never handled a firearm in their life doing it. You can just tell they are doing it for attention or to give the image they know what’s up!! Most of them end up putting there fingers over the barrel or really close when doing it. It’s simple people have always “checked” their chamber but the doing it at the front of the barrel is a new age thing and people just think they are cute. Glock extractor Protrudes off the slide when one is in the chamber and very easy to pick up on that with training to run your finger down the slide to feel it. H&K has an extractor with very visible red when there’s one in the chamber. Canik and some other manufacturers literally have a loaded chamber indicator at rear of chamber atop the slide and S&W, Taurus and a few others have a peep hole at the back of the chamber atop the slide to see if the chamber is loaded. Also IMO when you press check like that you run the risk of the gun not going fully back into battery. Heck I saw a commercial advertising a laser round dry firing system with a phone app shooting without ammo and I bet 10 times in the commercial some dude “press checks.” I guess he’s checking for a round in the chamber. Oh wait yeah it’s a laser. I’m telling you it’s just something people do trying to be cute and I’ve even saw people try to do it with no serrations at front of barrel all of which tells me they are trying to be cute. I’m waiting for one of them to blow their fingers off.
I believe the main difference(s) between the TRP and FBI Professional is the MIM parts in the TRP. As long as they hold up, I have no problem with them.
I believe that mine has been flawless
a year later and no eta on new trp operator manufacturing 😢 just want a half rail bull barrel government length 1911 without having to pay nighthawk 5k for one lol.
I tell ya brother I’m really impressed with the SA Emissary. Maybe you can look into it. They have the 4” 9mm, 5” 9mm w/o rail and 4” 45 and 5” 45 with rail. Thanks for watching and commenting and please be sure to subscribe if you haven’t already
You got this old school ✅
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@@GSquaredTactical The last time I saw that gun. Hickok45, did a video on it 💯. He mentioned in the video how difficult the gun was to break down field strip it‼️Till he shot 💥 numerous rounds thru the barrel to loosen it 💯.
@@GSquaredTactical Will do 👍👍
$am $mooth it is very very very difficult to take down still and I’ve put about 2k through it. The Springfield Emissary is the only other one I’ve owned that was harder to take down
@@GSquaredTactical So it's safe, to say. With some guns. You must have alot of patience, and understanding 😀
I got mine around 2005 ish… and it would be the last gun I would ever sell. It’s by far the best out of the box 1911 in my opinion. Anything better would be a custom gun that would cost thousands more. I paid $1,520 for mine and have never regretted it.
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Got mine in 2017, for 1400.00 USD. Gains value everyday as a safe queen.
I agree with you that it is a great 1911. However, I think that the Dan Wesson Specialist is the best production 1911.
Eww I forgot all about that one I also have that 1911 that would definitely be a contender thanks for watching and for commenting and please be sure to subscribe you have not already. Thanks again
Is the full rail version of this firearms the preferred model ?
I guess it preference I like a full rail but unfortunately since they quit making it we can’t get either 😞. Thanks for watching and commenting and please be sure to subscribe if you haven’t already
@@GSquaredTactical if your military and a Californian you can get a full rail TRP Operator 1911 it just takes like 2 years to get
Good grief lol. I heard they originally only made them for LE and Military and sold the overflow to civilians.
@@GSquaredTactical I'm military USAF they will make them on an custom requested order if you go through a licensed retailer it takes 2 years for one to be made though
You gonna get one?
Old Scholl is the best. In Your opinion TRP is better than new emissary?
Absolutely the emissary has its place but with no front serrations and stiff slide action the emissary doesn’t hold a candle to the TRP. Thanks for watching and commenting and be sure to subscribe if you haven’t already
@@GSquaredTactical Thank You
Trp operator is heads and shoulders above the emmisary.
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Wait, it's discontinued? Damn.
I know right!! If I ever find another one anywhere used I’m buying it no matter. Thanks for watching and commenting and please be sure to subscribe if you haven’t already
I switched my screws to flat head because this is a workhorse gun and I don't carry a hex key.
Hopefully you won’t ever have to tighten the screws in the field. Workhorse or not screws shouldn’t wiggle out, put a little sealant or something to prevent them from doing it! Thanks for watching and please subscribe if you haven’t already
I have two full rail versions.
Man that’s awesome I’d like to get my hands on the 10mm. Thanks for watching and commenting and please be sure to subscribe if you haven’t already. Thanks again
I have no clue why springfield discontinued this gun, it was the best production tactical 1911 on the market.
1000% agree!! It’s because people didn’t want to pay for it so they made cheaper 1911’s
@@GSquaredTactical yeah I use to own one, and I shot it and carried it ALOT, I bought it years ago, it waz one of my first handguns, but it was getting old it had a ton of holster wear, so i traded it in with another pistol for a different gun i wanted, but I was planning on buying a new one soon to replace it, but then I saw they freaking discontinued them, I was kicking myself for trading it In!!!!
That sucks
@@GSquaredTactical yeah, I am pretty frustrated by it. But maybe I will try the full rail trp operator, Its.just a 1911 is already pretty heavy, and the trp half rail, was not light at all to carry, so that full rail will be worse and I am not 100% sold on how the full rail looks. ....or I will just haft to start looking in the used gun market. Or cross my fingers that Springfield sees the error of their ways and brings it back....lmao yeah right!
great that means I can flip on gunbroker and double money lmao
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Who puts their hands in front of the muzzle when charging from the front 😂
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4:02 The Professional is way different than the TRP geezous. smh
Thanks for for insight!!
Tell us in what way smh
@@Millie.1965 Mostly MIM parts in the TRP, which I own. No problem with strong MIMs.
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First of all it’s not discontinued lmao
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@@GSquaredTactical it’s simply not
Just to be certain I looked it up on Springfields website to answer what I already knew and it simply, clearly and literally says on Springfields website that the Springfield 1911 TRP 45 is discontinued. I can’t argue with the one who makes it
Your description of the front serrations was nonsense.
What about it was nonsense if you don’t mind explaining
@@GSquaredTactical If you press check with your left hand over the top with the rear serrations, the chamber is not visible. Front serrations are really convenient for some of us. If they are not for you that's fine. But consider how others wish to operate their firearm.
And yes, after racking the slide, or not, hours or days earlier, some of us do not want to trust our memory about a round being chambered.
It would be quite careless to trust your memory about something that important.
And after you rack the slide, are you 100% sure that a round has been chambered? If the mag is not seated, as an example, you may not.
Fair enough thanks for watching and commenting.
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I mostly was taking about all the people I see at the range doing this mostly young people. Obviously they just slapped a mag in a sent the side home so it’s loaded but they will still “press check” it. In a lot of cases it’s people you can tell aren’t gun guys nor know much about guns. They do it so much you can tell it’s more trying to be cute and follow a trend than anything else. I’m curious, if one buys a gun without front slide serrations thus not able to “press check” do they walk around with a gun not knowing if one is in the pipe? Where people blowing there faces off before front serrations was a thing because they weren’t able to “press check?” Also, I don’t put my hand over the side to check if there’s one in the pipe if someone hands me a gun. I use my left thumb and index finger and pull back slightly. Also, I done that at the range one time and it didn’t fully go back into battery and it was embarrassing and could have caused an accident with someone with less experience than I. I’m just not a fan of it and I’m sure it’s my age. It’s ok though to have a different opinion. I’m not trying to change your mind
Is it worth a trade for a 1978 colt mkiv?
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Is it really discontinued? LGS got a huge shipment of these.
At one time they said they was but then I’ve heard they are shipping them again. I know the ones with the full length rail are discontinued. Thanks for watching and commenting and please be sure to subscribe if you haven’t already
@@GSquaredTactical that’s odd. The full rail version is the one I just picked up last week.
Great vid btw. I subbed.
Nice that’s a nice one.
I hope they did started making them again I always wanted one. Finally saved the money to get one. Who’s LSG? Do they have a website?
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