Executives, professionals in all walks of life, and others who carry daily asked for our legendary reliability, fit, and finish in a package even smaller than our Professional series-– with the excellent recovery characteristics and accuracy offered by our innovative heavy-cone barrel. The S.D.S. is the answer we provided. It includes the best of several of our models, enhanced with a 4 1/16” version of the hand-fit, heavy-flanged cone match-grade barrel pioneered on our Tactical Elite, and a frame shortened by ½” with 7-round capacity. The slide length is reduced by a full inch from a standard-length 1911, giving you a speed advantage in target acquisition with the shorter sighting plane. The shorter frame S.D.S. with the accompanying short slide gives you the maximum concealability available with outstanding accuracy and successive shot recovery. Many shooters find the S.D.S’s near perfect balance and controllability exceeds many pistols with 5” barrels.