Thanks for the compliments on what are very plain Jane milspec guns, still, and which have a much smaller printing footprint than any of the melted bells and whistles extended beavertail guns. As an fyi, the Series 80 plain guns were dropped from the catalog this year, blued and stainless, I think the blued plain Govt Model (misnamed Series 70 by everybody to where Colt surrendered and named it the same) is still being made.

Even funnier, as for misnaming, with the Govt Model currently called the Series 70 Govt Model (even though no split collet bushing as the Series 70 introduced), it left the Govt Model name open for use on....you guessed it, the Series 80 guns. My stainless gun is a Series 80, but currently indicates nowhere at all that it is such. The opposite side slide says only COLT GOVERNMENT MODEL in small rollmark, where formerly it said SERIES 80 in same small font. All of which makes ME happy, anyhow, as my pet peeve of the Series 70 was the split collet and name change, and pet peeve of the Series 80 was it saying so at all. I like plain simple COLT GOVERNMENT MODEL, and got it.

Production this year on all the bells and whistles guns with rails, especially Commander sized. The size I can see, but I know of no non-LEO civilian who constantly carries a light on a gun, and why have a Commander for a bedside table gun if size of no consequence?

Poor Colt workers, dealing with management brain trust, and fickle public buying looks, and making an all cast and MIM gun (aside from barrel) a giant in the 1911 world and outselling the original forged machined spec gun, only for looks. As mentioned before, Colt still has one guy assembling and fitting/checking each gun from start to finish. Old school.