Hello Bob,
Yes the MG1 looks a lot like a SAM, the origins of the design are clearly very similar. The MG1 was very much a consideration but I couldn't get hold of one to try...the NSRA have one in but you can't try them unless you buy them! The other consideration was servicing, I would want easy access to service support..... I know a lot of people poo-poo this but at the inter-regionals I had problems with my pistol, the engineer was there and sorted it, gifting me a bronze and the region a silver..... Without that back up I'd have been trying to borrow a pistol off of someone!!
. The SAM that I had was very accurate, I shot my first 97 with it... But I had a few problems and there was little assistance available.
. The Morini is just brilliant, no absorber to have to monitor, no grip adjustment to blame for poor shots or groups, just a tried and tested twenty year old design that isa as good as its keeper! And that trigger is sublime!
. I think the arguement of manual vs elec triggers comes in, I'm not a purist, and I love the 'detached' feeling that the morini trigger gives. Some want to feel connected, and the SAMs and Steyrs certainly make you feel a part of the pistol.
. The low sight line of the SAM is brilliant though!