Nighthawk Custom GRP Recon .45 ACP
Model: P-GRP-RECON
Nighthawk Custom GRP Recon .45 ACP
Model: P-GRP-RECON
Full Specifications
About This Firearm
The Nighthawk Custom GRP Recon is a full-size single-action .45 ACP built for defensive use with a weapon light. Nighthawk builds it to order. A Picatinny section under the dust cover takes a standard pistol light, and the frame and slide are hand fit forged steel under black nitride.
Nighthawk fits Heinie Ledge Straight Eight tritium night sights, G10 Gator Back panels, a front strap and mainspring housing checkered 25 lines per inch, a hand fit match grade barrel that is throated with a polished feed ramp, and a trigger job set at 3.5 to 3.75 lb. The whole gun is dehorned and hand beveled, and two 8-round magazines come with it. There is no optic cut.
If you're cross-shopping, the Wilson Combat CQB Elite is the other production-custom .45 at an MSRP of $4,799, 41 oz with a Battlesight rear and a fiber optic front, a high-cut checkered frontstrap and a trigger set between three and a half and four and a half pounds, but no light rail on the standard gun. The Dan Wesson Specialist costs much less at 42.3 oz of forged stainless with an ambidextrous safety and a detachable magwell, and its parts are machine fit instead of hand fit.
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Strengths & Limitations
- The barrel is hand fit, throated and paired with a polished feed ramp, which is the work that makes hollow points feed in a 1911.
- Two magazines come with it, and the body is the standard full-size .45 pattern.
- The trigger is a lightweight aluminum tri-cavity unit, so there is less mass to move before the shot breaks.
- Built to order, so delivery takes as long as the queue does.
- No optic cut on this configuration, which is a gap at this price next to guns with factory slide cuts.
- With a light on the rail this is a heavy pistol to carry concealed, and the rail changes which holsters fit.
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Frequently Asked Questions
What sights does it come with?
Heinie Ledge Straight Eight tritium night sights, so the front and rear dots line up vertically instead of as a three-dot row.
Where is it built?
In the United States, one gun at a time.
What is the front strap like?
Cut with Nighthawk’s Ultra Hi-Cut treatment, so the hand sits higher on the frame than on a standard 1911.
How does the Recon differ from a plain GRP?
The Recon carries the Picatinny rail section under the dust cover. That changes which holsters fit, because a rail-less 1911 shell will not take it.
