I found that it sits forward pretty far for my right thumb. There is one slide catch/release, whatever you want to call it. Moving further up the gun, we’ll go to the slide stop/slide release. It looks great, and it functions phenomenally. No problems with it, especially on the 1911. Not a fan of pistol safeties, but I understand the 1911s are going to have them, and on this one, it’s good. It’s ambidextrous, so it’s on both sides. It’s very easy to engage with your thumb. This safety is what you’d expect from a 1911 style safety. Moving forward on the gun, you have your safety. Grabbing it is seamless, and if you’re establishing your correct master grip, you’ll have no problems with this. This palm safety is polymer-like the grip, so it’s not a metal pressure plate. With that, you’re not going to be able to pull the trigger unless you have established your master grip and the palm safety’s activated. On the back of the grip, you have your palm safety. Let’s start from the back and move to the front. This is a single action gun, which means you have to have the hammer cocked, obviously. The controls are your standard 1911 style controls. Once it arrives I’ll at it to the gun and report bag. I plan to add a Trijicon RMR to the Staccato P RDO. The only reason I would change this on this RDO model is to add a red dot sight. You can change them, but personally I wouldn’t. I don’t know if it’s because it’s the 1911 or 2011 style gun that makes me like it, but I like it. I don’t like fiber optic sights on nearly any other gun, so I’m rather surprised I liked it on the Staccato P. Granted, I don’t have fiber optic sights on my Glock 19, but again, I don’t know why it really works for this gun.

I like to run this style of iron sight, it reminds me of the Trijicon sight on my Glock 19, so this really fell into place. The rear sight has just your normal U, has very sharp edges, but it also doesn’t have any dots, which I really like.

Overall shooting this, I really like the fiber optic sight, and I’m not a fiber optic sight person. I believe it’s green, although my green and yellow sometimes are a little rough. I actually really like this fiber optic sight. That stands for the red dot optic model, but naturally it still comes with sights, the front being a fiber optic sight. Let’s talk a little bit about the standard Staccato P’s sights. It’s at the top of the grip, and that’s standard when you start talking 1911s. There is still your normal screw on the grip panel but here’s only one of them. Now that can be done, but obviously you’re going to be limited to what Staccato offers, so you pretty much have to take the grip out of the equation in this. The grips are actually molded into the trigger guard, and you would have to change out the whole piece. So if you want to change that, you would obviously have to get a whole different lower. Now, there is no way to change the panels on the 2011 like there would be if this was a 1911, because this frame would have to come totally off. If you have a firm grip this grip texture is gonna be just fine. It provides a pretty decent tactile feel but it’s not as abrasive as some grips, but at the same time, it does its job, and it does it well in that when you’re shooting it. The texturing on the grips is actually interesting, because it’s the star logo turned on itself and duplicated. The grips have the Staccato logo, which is a stylized star, and then the grip texture pattern. When you grab the bottom, it almost feels like you’re grabbing a Glock frame but this one is much more polished. It’s very interesting to grab this gun, because it’s all metal top construction and polymer grip. That makes it very light and also somewhat modular. The second piece of the frame allows you to interchange it with polymer, an aluminum, titanium, or tungsten even frame for your 2011. If you don’t know, 2011s are two piece frames. The grip on this gun is very interesting. This gun definitely comes with top notch features, so let’s dive into them. Pistols can only have so many, but for over $2,000, you do expect to get some very basic but at the same time advanced and polished features. You definitely want a gun at this price point to have features. Let’s talk about the Staccato P’s features.

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