Few 1911s ever see use in organized competition, and even fewer probably see day-to-day use as a carry gun these days, especially full-sized all-steel pistols like the Emissary (which is not to say that there aren’t some practical niches in which this pistol could shine). The frame is bare stainless, giving the whole affair the sort of two-tone look that was common on custom 1911s 40 years ago, when the realities of sweaty hands and the hot desert environs of Gunsite and pistol matches in the Southwest made various hard chrome, matte nickel, and even more exotic frame treatments common.