I said "detail strip" meaning down to the frame so that each and every piece is removed.
Sir, I stand corrected, and I apologize for the misunderstanding.
My problem with this thread, and others like it, is that many say, "This isn't to take anything away from the 1911. . . ."
We fans of the pistol didn't just fall off the turnip truck.
The implication being that because I started this thread, I did just fall off the turnip truck? I am not trying to take anything away from the gun. However, I am trying to point out that it isn't the only boat to row. As I have said 4 times now, I own a 1911 and I am very happy with it. I do not see it as particularly superior to any of my other pistols, and in particular, I don't see it as superior to my P90. Equal, maybe. Superior, no. Sorry, Boats, but if you don't think that aggressive advertising and a over-saturation of worshipful articles in the gun rags hasn't helped the 1911 along in recent years, well... I guess I don't know what to say to that, other than that you and I clearly disagree.
I think mat, not doormat kind of understood the point of my thread when he said:
Am I in love with the 1911? Not especially. Then why is it that I carry one around with me all the time?
It's just a pistol, man. That it happens to work good is great, and that is why I, along with jillions of other people own one. But it is still just a pistol. If I had my P90 in my hand, I would be just as likely to win a gunfight, save a damsel in distress and resist the siren song of Communism as easily as I would if I had a 1911. Along those same lines, I don't particularly care what an "operator" uses. I am not an operator, and when I was sort of an operator, I had a M9 and an M60. My point is, I shoot my guns mainly for fun, with an eye towards self-defense and zombie eradication. I am unlikely to the degree of impossibility to ever need my gun to be "operator approved". Yeah, bad stuff can happen in terms of natural disasters, but a natural disaster survival situation is relatively short-term, as opposed to the long term exposure to the elements that operators worry about.
I agree with whomever it was that said that 1000 rounds without cleaning is a good test, and I have done that with my P90. No failures there! I have about half that with my current 1911, and also no failures to report. Also, I have not at any point made intimations that the 1911 isn't reliable. I think some of the custom guns are built way too tight and aren't particularly great until they get broken in, but it would be foolish to say that the gun isn't reliable. I have no idea if those comments were directed at me or not, but if they were, I want to make that clear.