Did you ever end up getting one?
I like mine but I might have gone a little overboard on this thing. I have a LTD version, so mine is SA only. Trigger is excellent, pretty much the same as our Kimber gold match series 1 1911. Very short, crisp. It's also a flat trigger if that helps to know.
The sights are dead on. I shoot in open range so the exact distances are not known but I would wager our average distance shot is somewhere in the 15 to 30 yard range. At a good 10 yards you'll be putting a large single hole in a target with successive shots. At a distance that spreads a bit but depends on the shooter, of course. The dust cover, weight, barrel, etc are amazing but not magic. They will not cure a fault in skills, so practice till it's like an extension of your arm.
The checkering and grips are interesting. On most my other pistols I tend to put hogue grips on them to help with the whole large hand thing but not on the A01-LD. These grips are aggressive. Like they are little claws digging into your skin to keep this gun in your hands. Works well. Great for ranges and competitions but if you are in a cartel and need to walk around with it in your hands all day you will probably get irritated by the teeth that wrap the handle. I like it.
I am not a fan of the extended safeties, but in competition they would come in handy. When I have mine in carry configuration I will swap with the normal blued safeties from a standard A01-LD. I have carried plenty with the extended ones and they kind of poke you. I also remove the magwell for carry config and use the standard p09 mags instead of the extended ones. And I do like that all of this is easy enough to do so swapping configurations isn't prohibitive for people who aren't natural born gunsmiths.
I have only had 2 suspicious actions with this gun after who knows how many rounds. Twice the slide didn't lock back on an empty mag. It occurred to me that I haven't cleaned the mags in a while and I did see evidence of sand in the carry pouch, so it's possible it was just dirty. I don't think guns of this nature boast their ability to function in a pile of wet sand like say the HK MK 23 or whatever. So I wouldn't dock it in the reliability sector for these incidents. Otherwise it has never failed to fire when it had to, and never failed to ... well, anything else.
The only other thing I am a little hesitant to praise here is that it is a highly specialized gun, and as such it can be very hard or impossible to get parts in a timely fashion, and there isn't a huge community for troubleshooting, discussing, or even just common enough to get together with a total stranger to try one out before you go spending $1500 - $3500 on one. I would like to suppress it for home defense but I don't even want to know what would be involved in getting a bull barrel in adequate length and threaded. I mean, this isn't a huge issue per say. I believe most would use it as a competition gun anyhow, but not me. I carry this thing around like a child and have no doubts in its abilities or my own with it. Given that, I'd like stainless safeties. Can't get them without having them custom plated. Haven't even asked about the barrel. Custom grips are limited to a small selection. Etc. Again, none of which is a problem per say. More like a wish list.
In the end, I would say it is a pretty impressive work of art. Mine is a CZC A01-LD LTD in hard chrome. Looks great. I would probably suggest not going all out on an LTD model. I only bought this one over a standard one because I figured if I had to sell it one day I would have a higher probability of getting anywhere near what I paid for it simply because I only know of 2 or 3 other LTDs out there. I'm sure there are more, just they never surface when I'm looking. So far, it doesn't look like I'll be selling this thing. I'm more likely to demand it gets buried with me when I go.
