Mako,
Don't get me wrong, the Ranger Colt's are completely functional guns. Guns you could stake your life on!! The Rangers wouldn't stand for anything less!
As for set up they have adjustable triggers and ambi safeties and true to Ranger preference some have had the grip safety dissabled.
I don't like the finish they are not up to what I would expect from Colt and like I said before the engraving is barely journeyman level. In Colts defence they were built to a price point. The Rangers don't have a lot of money so the point of buying two is so that Rangers can sell one to a Ranger Booster to pay for both.
We were approached to build an engraved 1911 for the Rangers. They would like a Texas made gun. Which is why I was able to take them apart. Ordinarily a Ranger would never hand you one of their guns, even a friend.
Unfortunately the timing is wrong, for a run of guns for them, with the 1911 anniversary everyone is building 1911s this year and most of the parts are allready spoken for. We are also very busy, maybe next year. The cool thing for us and what would make them profitable for us is that we could sell a civilian version!
Raven