IMHO the most "complicated" thing about a 1911 is that the guy or lady who built your given gun needed to know what the f*** they were doing when they fitted it.
That is actually an art, like a gunsmith art. And even if I can tell a gun is f***ed up, I still don't have the expertise to properly fix it. But I can tell a friend to go "This gun feels
wrong, you need to have a smith who knows what theyre doing fix it" .
It is this critical stage, this fitment of parts, plus, mating it with appropriate magazines that also are not junk, that literally determine the functional fate of a given
1911. Wether it runs or fails or is going to be a f***ing disaster. ( Well that and sometimes, quality of parts. one problem on lots of skinflint guns like say, a Taurus 1911, is that the parts used are f***ing garbage).
IMHO a 1911 will never be the most reliable platform. It just isnt possible, the design doesnt allow for it. HOWEVER- most of the shit people experience/complain with these guns is because theres a f***ing GIGANTIC number of guns on cheap end of the spectrum that are just dumped on the public, bad. OR theres a ton of WECSOG a**h***s running around ruining perfectly good 1911s. Like when you go to a USPSA match and you see some poor lady in SS or whatever get DQed because her gun goes BANG when the slide closed while doing an LAMR, you know that some inbred f***stick retard a**h*** (probably her husband?) has probably messed with the trigger in her gun. Now granted, I have seen this same kind of mental retardation with Glocks as well but its expressed differently.
and thankfully those people dont have the time to f*** up all of the glocks lol
But heres like the cycle of malaise:
SOME GUY who is getting his first 1911 flints hard buys some used shitty USGI repro 1911 (lets face facts, a lot of the AO repro guns were poorly built) then gets it, gun jams constantly, never runs right, etc. Sends it back. They fix it "a little" but not all the issues, so it runs a little better but is still basically shit.
SOME GUY: "all 1911s are trash!!!!!!!"
and on and on and on
And when you have f***stick companies like Taurus and Remington (well, at the time) cranking out thousands of PT1911s and R1s, basically flooding the market with
trash, and a bunch of (insert other skinflint vendors here) or even S&W on a "bad month" QC wise, now you have a market where.... like 30% of the 1911s entering the
market are gutter trash. Oh and when sig first rolled out the GSR... TRASH! Thats going to have an influence on perceptions of the platform, that is hard to work around.
Oh lets also not forget brands like PARA ORDNANCE which basically mustve had a machine that was capable of taking a turd and casting it into a handgun, much like a Hi Point.
Or maybe you are one of those poor bastards with the 9000 S&W Scandium commanders or 5" guns where the shitty MIM plunger tube posts sheared right off the gun? Thankfully most of the time if anyone was paying attention they would catch it before both posts sheard and the whole tube fell off.
Also you haven't lived until you pick up an S&W 1911 e series and have the right side safety lever fall off in your hands because nobody bothered to fit it properly.
The platform does NOT lend itself to being manufactured by fools. And then the customer always pays the price.
It also does not help matters that when 1911s fail its not always a HARD failure. But they will often fail in a very non-linear manner. "I fired 120 rounds out of it today and it only jammed once" well, welcome to RANDO 1911 land. Thats exactly the kind of shit a just-on-the-edge-of-proper fitted gun will do to you. It will make you think it is normal, and then, PUNCH YOU IN THE RECTUM. thankfully none of my 1911s do shit like that, but I have had some in the past did exactly that
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IM LOOKING AT YOU, KRAPBER, with your f***ing BENT f***ING frame.
Like who really let that out of the factory? REALLY?
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FkMWsO_-X7Y