{"id":35115,"date":"2015-04-30T10:22:50","date_gmt":"2015-04-30T14:22:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/blog\/?p=35115"},"modified":"2015-04-30T10:22:50","modified_gmt":"2023-08-18T15:11:46","slug":"cheap-guns-1911-edition-metro-arms-commander","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/cheap-guns-1911-edition-metro-arms-commander\/","title":{"rendered":"Cheap Guns: 1911 Edition Metro Arms Commander"},"content":{"rendered":"

Buy one on GunsAmerica: \/Metro Arms<\/a><\/p>\n

Metro Arms American Classic Commander: https:\/\/americanclassic.com\/commander-series<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Editor’s Note: We here at GunsAmerica have a taste for the finer things. We’ve shot our fair share of high-end single-actions. I personally get euphoric when handling guns that embody the best of American craftsmanship–the type of guns that get better the close you look. The Metro Arms 1911s we’ve seen don’t fit into that category. From across the room, you won’t find fault. Get close, and you’ll see tool marks and mold lines. While this would be an utter embarrassment on a $3,000 1911, it isn’t on a $500 gun–at least not one made of metal. And the guns work. They work reliably well. If they didn’t, we wouldn’t have bothered with this Commander. You can check out our other review here<\/a>. When it comes to “cheap” 1911s, these guns are hard to beat.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

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Metro, who?<\/h2>\n

The American Classic series from Metro Arms is imported by Eagle Imports. Eagle is probably best known as the importer of Bersa.\u00a0 The Bersas, like good Marxist revolutionaries, are made in Argentina. The Metros are made in the Philippines. For a number of years now there have been some very nice and lower priced 1911s coming out of the Philippines.\u00a0 The best known being the Armscor made Rock Islands.<\/p>\n

Why the Philippines? Rumor has it the Americans left behind some tooling when we were wrapping up our big mid-century Nipponese ass kicking, and some skilled 1911 armorers, and the tradition has been building ever since.<\/p>\n

In the realm of budget 1911s, the American Classic stands out for the “extras” they come with.\u00a0 I am not talking about the other stuff in the box, I mean the stuff on the pistol its self. These are not the standard 1911 A1 copies typically associated with Filipino 1911s. They’ve got more in common with the contemporary 1911 we’re all familiar with on this side of the Pacific.<\/p>\n

Specs<\/h2>\n

Here are the numbers on the American Classic Commander<\/p>\n

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The American Classic Commander.<\/p><\/div>\n