Mine is one of the nicest looking pistols I've owned. I'll have to say that for shooting I prefer the flat msh and long trigger myself. That's what makes the '11 perfect for everyone, it was modular before modular was cool. This may seem like blasphemy, but I don't shoot mine much. It's put away 'til I can afford to send it to a top notch smith and have a full house custom done on it.