This pistol is very nice! Smooth, beautiful dark green Parkerized finish. The machine work and fitting on the gun is right up there with some of the more expensive 1911's. I disassembled it and found no flaws, whatsoever. However, many of the parts are MIM. Soaked all the parts overnight in food-grade machine oil because the Park finish loves oil. Wiped it down and put it back together the next day and ran almost 200 fmj rds thru it with no problems. Buy this gun!! Now let's talk about Kygunco and this purchase. I paid with a credit card on a Thursday, but the gun didn't ship until Friday a week later, so two weekends went by before the gun showed up at my FFL. So, when it finally arrives the serial numbers on the gun and the box it came in do not match. My FFL won't release the pistol with this discrepancy. Kygunco was slow to respond to both mine and my FFL's queries. They eventually got it worked out, but I'm still stuck with a box with the wrong serial number on it. smh.