Academy Sports has a Mil-Spec I have been eyeing for not too much money.
Springfield Armory 1911 MIL-SPEC .45 ACP Pistol | Academy
That is essentially the gun I bought years ago, except blue steel and even more rudimentary sights (no dots), cromo barrel, no SS., but I bought it as a base gun upon which to build my competition gun incrementally. I was just getting into IPSC competition and couldn't afford a "race gun". Although my 1911 pales in comparison to todays race guns, it did what I needed it to do, to include going to Gunsite. If one wants a GI spec gun just to have a piece of history, go for it. If I had it to do over, I would buy a gun that had all the features I wanted from the get go. That original Springfield did teach me that I'm no gunsmith!! LOL!
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