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I've seen Glocks, Sigs, and H&Ks malfunction. If you haven't seen your particular favorite kind of gun malfunction is is because you have not shot it enough. In my experience quality 1911s have no more problems than anything else.
I agree that that is generally the case. In my particular case, my 1911 has had more malfunctions with far fewer rounds than either of my USPs. Small sample size I know.
Funny thing is, my Kimber has choked on factory ammo, never my own reloads (including SWC type lead).
Build a 1911 right and it will work. It's as simple as that. My USGI 1911s have never malfunctioned with good ammo and magazines. Same with my older commercials and many of my newer Colts. Several recent specimens have required tweaking before they were reliable, but the causes were lack of attention to detail during manufacture.
Had one 1911, wasn't reliable for me, works perfectly for Correia (I must've broken it in for him.... ) Had HK's, functioned perfectly, hated the trigger. Currently compete with Sigs, zero failures. Have two more 1911's on the way, we'll see how they do.
Of the remaining three: One hasn't even been fired by me yet, so I can't offer a reliability eval, the other (the Detonics) was bought as a project gun with known issues, and the last, a Springfield Stainless Loaded, has been perfectly reliable for a couple thousand rounds since its chintzy factory ejector and extractor have been replaced with in-spec quality parts.
Sometimes they'll jam on the occasional softball semiwadcutter if things like this happen to them, though...
I replaced the stock Springfield mags with 7- and 10-round Wilson's (got rid of the one Wilson 10-rnd mag that was causing problems) and since then my PX9109L runs like a sewing machine. Not a hiccup in, maybe, a thousand? more? I don't know exactly. Mostly Winchester white-box FMJ and Winchester RA45TP.
My USP has been 100%, no joke, for at least 5,000.
Your malfunction was caused by improper ammo! The 1911 will
handle Hardball and Softball with ease, but it's NOT designed
to digest Football. And now ya know...
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