Are you gonna say that the typical affordable 1911 (not talking Wilson Combat or heavily modded Kimber with dozens of gunsmithing hours built upon) is *more* reliable than a typical modern 9mm within the *same* price range?
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No, I am saying that it is the
same amount reliable within the context of concealed carry and reasonable practice.
There is a reason *why* the US military dropped the 1911 near 40 years ago for the Beretta M9 (it was supposed to be the Sig Sauer p226 but it lost due pricing) and the Navy Seals carried the p226 Navy (a.k.a. Mk25) until quite recently replacing it for a Glock.
And it has
nothing to do with the 1911 being a 1911! (You know US Marine Special Operations uses a 1911, right? The Colt M45A1?)
The standard NATO pistol round is 9mm. Almost every 1911 in government inventory was made before 1945 and, basically, worn out, save for some few examples that never got into the hands of the troops.
Yet another 9mm using the standard NATO pistol round. Again, has nothing to do with a 1911 being a 1911, and no one who makes a 1911 even submitted a 9mm 1911 because it doesn't meet the requirements.
The 1911 it is a venerable gun, has serviced this country well for decades but is an outdated design that has to be too loose to properly work (i.e. therefore not precise) or finicky (if made tight) to achieve precision.
Bullshit!! I
just told you that a (new) military 1911 will shoot inside a 3" circle at 25 yards. I dare you to hold any centerfire pistol significantly inside a circle that size. If you can, I'll buy you whatever gun you want. Don't make things up because it fits your narrative.
The maximum number of rounds I managed to put through a high quality Springfield Armory without any malfunction was < 120. After that, failure to eject/feed was routine and pushed me to clean and lub the gun.
Not a mil-spec pistol and what magazine did you use? I bet it had those nonsense "hybrid feed lips" that no one needs in a defensive gun
ever. Plus what was your ammunition? Quality commercial, cheap reload, what? That makes a difference too.
Maybe your 1911 is something else and works flawless every time.
Damned right it is. It's a genuine Colt Model of 1911 from October of 1917 with new Colt springs and no extra BS it doesn't need. I use Checkmate magazines with GI feed lips. These are the same magazines the military used. They
work.
Meanwhile, the Sig was happily going bang! every single time (same operator, same ammo) way past 200 rounds (and the following week, another 200 without being cleaned or lubbed and probably could go 2000 rounds still happily working fine).
Skippy for you. I do not care. That doesn't invalidate my position, one of them being that you do not know the 1911 well enough to give any decent advice.
I enjoy cleaning my guns, but I enjoy even more actually shooting them.
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I clean my 1911 at the end of each range session. You should see how dirty they get after 300 to 400 rounds... with zero malfunction.
Look, I get it, you have pistols you are happy with. You want to promote them. Don't put down a platform that
works when you don't screw with it, thinking you're smarter than John Browning or the engineers at Colt.
You're making yourself sound like someone who has to validate his choices by pooping on someone else's, and I don't think that's the kind of person you want to be. You had a bad experience, and I can see why. I have had good experiences, unless the gun wasn't to spec or the magazine wasn't. Once you correct someone else's fault, surprise, the darn thing goes bang every time and if your eyes don't suck because you're getting old, you can shoot them quite accurately.
You don't want to carry a 1911 in favor of some other pistol, that's fine. No one is making you. But don't shit on people who do.
