Too much talk about the Shadow and Tactical on this forum ...

[mountaincoulee]

About the CA laws, someone said 'Byzantine', and someone else 'Draconian'.

Thousand year old constructs that describe a 21st Century society. Thanks for the eye opener.

[shooterdude]

You could just send your SP-01 to Angus or Matt Mink and have the FPB removed while they are putting in a comp. hammer, do a trigger job and changing the sights to the fiber optic front and comp rear....then you will have a Shadow!

My 97 was worked on by Angus and my 75 by Matt and the only difference is Matt sent back the gun back in 2 weeks and Angus shop took a bit longer do to their backlog of work.

I had the FPB removed from the 75 but left it in the 97.  The 75 with a 13lb mainspring is absolutely amazing but I had to up the spring to 17lb to accommodate the Kadet Kit.  The 97....well it is my favorite shooter, I'm just bummed that .45 ammo has become scarce and expensive when available :-(

[PHKsCZ]

You would ALMOST have a shadow .... the frame on the Shadow is slightly different than the SP01 with higher cuts under the trigger guard and beaver tail. The only part of the SP01 frame, however, that I would like is the higher cut under the trigger guard to move my grip up a tad, but I have NO complaints with the SP01 - its a nice pistol!

Is your 75B SAO? I would imagine that the main benefit from removing the FPB and lever would be in a SAO only pistol to remove the small amount of take-up prior to the break. I could be wrong here though - not sure if the reset in SA without the FPB results in no take-up before the break ... care to enlighten me?

My 97B is SAO and I left the FPB/lever in and there is just a little bit of take-up before the break - something I can live with.

[shooterdude]

My 75 is DA/SA but with the FPB gone, the SA break is very crisp and the take-up virtually gone, of course it all depends on being disciplined enough to only let the trigger out to the reset after the shot and not the extra few millimeters.  It is almost as good as an SAO pistol but not quite.  I have toyed with the idea of putting the SA trigger in it but then shooting with the Kadet Kit would become annoying on those occasional misfires that the second strike takes care of.