Difference In Trophy And Nat'l Match

[Neener Neener]

I am looking at a couple of Gold Cups, but one is a Trophy and the other a Nation Match. What's the difference?

[TattooPaul]

Trophy's are from the production line (still extremely nice pieces - top notch shooters!) and National Match (if still manufactured) have extra fitting and TLC from the Custom Shop - please correct me if I'm wrong.

[steve bliek]

maybe the difference is in the frame. I sent my series 80 blue trophy in for repair and it came back with a National Match slide. They said it was the same. Could there have been a difference if we were talking about the series 70 Gold Cup's?

[Joni Lynn]

Gold Cups used to have a wide all steel trigger which I has since been changed to an aluminum trigger.
If both are reasonably new production, the biggest difference I know of is that the stainless TM will have a BoMar style rear sight while all the others use an Elliason style rear sight.