It comes with three blued-steel, flush-fit magazines of 9-round capacity.
Ten rounds (9+1) of Hornady 135-gr.
Critical Duty ammunition will add 4.5 oz., yielding a fully loaded carry weight of 34.5 oz.
Width is 1-1/8 at the grips, and 15/16 at the slide.
The Springfield Armory EMP 4-inch Concealed Carry Contour 9mm 1911 is a very handsome piece.
The barrel is retained, and the slide is powered by a full-length guide rod with dual recoil springs.
That problem could be eliminated with a somewhat longer mag release button that projects farther off the frame.
Empty magazines dropped free once the release button was fully depressed.
The slide is fitted with dove-tailed front and rear sights.
It features two white dots with a square sighting notch between them.
The front sight is fixed in its dovetail, and comes with an orange fiber-optic light pipe installed.
Detailed instructions on the quick and simple replacement of the front light pipe are provided in the owners manual.
The trigger is another high point of the EMP 4-inch Concealed Carry Contour.
Its wide and ventilated, with a serrated flat front face.
Less than 1/16thinch of effortless travel puts you on the sear a very obvious hard wall.
Add a little pressure and nothing happens no trigger movement whatsoever.
Then all of a sudden the pistol fires.
Its a surprise every time, and the kind of trigger I covet.
Not too light to represent an unreasonable risk, but light enough to be able to shoot accurately.
But that G29SF is always stoked with ten rounds of 180-gr.
10mm, so that probably accounts for the lighter feel of the EMP.
At the range we received a number of surprises, almost all of them good.
We expected the EMP to be pleasant to shoot, and that was certainly the case.
Also mirroring past experiences with Springfields EMP line was this pistols mechanical downrange precision.
That is to say, it was outstanding.
Its consistency was flat-impressive.
This is one very nice little pistol.
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