I didn't have the time to do any research, but have been very happy with this target pistol.
Charles Daly is an importer of guns with a good reputation for finding quality guns. The ECMT is a target model 1911 in 45acp made in the Phillipines.
It is a stainless gun with all the target parts that you would want to put on a 1911 (ambi-ext safety, ext slide lock, ambi-ext mag release, target trigger, target sights and 5" barrel and beveled magwell.)
The sights are LPA target sights and are adjustable for elevation and windage using a slotted screw head.
The trigger pull is not the smoothest if ever tried, but it's not the worst either. It just took a little bending adjustment of the springs and some very light honing of the sear to get a very nice, crisp trigger, worthy of a Bullseye gun.
Shooting
To be honest, I didn't expect much from this gun. I don't care much for stainless guns and given what I paid for it ($500), I didn't expect much accuracy.
I was wrong.
The ECMT is a fine gun. It shot all types of factory and reloaded ammunition with no malfunctions. The very few problems that I had were due to my reloads being out-of-spec for length and I wore out a recoil spring.
Bench testing of this gun (2-handed off of a rest) at 25 yards would regularly print 3 or 4 rounds touching each other. I wish I had access to a Ransom rest to see what it would really do.
I shot this gun in Bullseye, PPC and a club version of IPSC. It excelled in all of them.
In a fit of temporary hatred for Stainless, I sold this gun and regret it ever since.
I would buy another Charles Daly 45 in a hearbeat and have no reservations recommending it as a target gun.
