Yes have spent some time on Brians forum. Thats were I saw all the talk of Spartans not being reliable even though they were very accurate. Also seems the parts have a short life expectantcy. If I'm going to have to replace most of the parts one at a time with the agony that goes with a gun breaking in a match, then may just as well get a better gun to begin with. After 31 years of shooting my Gold Cup, about 5 years shooting "combat matches", back before they had all those initials, we just called it combat shooting, finally had the extractor break. Replaced with a Hardcore part so should be set for the rest of my life. Looking for that nice feel of a well set up single action 1911 trigger. Had thought of a HiPower but never shoot one. They do feel good in the hand, how's their accuracy? Gonna try to find a M&P with a trigger job and see how that feels.