I have two of these fine pistols, both hard chrome finished, and one has a compensator (pin gun). I got this pin gun in 1988, and I used it in 1990 at the old Second Chance bowling pin shoot in Central Lake, MI, and that year I won the Winchester-Second Chance grand championship shoot-off ($5000). My other SA M1911 I got in Montreal in 1990, and I have done well with it at local pin matches in NH and VT. There is a pin match in Chester, NH on 28Oct2017 that is the last one of the year. Wish me luck.