I immediately concede that newer designs such as Glock and the M&P are better designs. Far simpler, easier to manufacture and made more advanced materials.
The 1911 is an old design. It's complicated and needs lots of pay-attention and tribal-know-how to make correctly.
Mr Yam is not mistaken about today's 1911.
What I am baffled by is how none of what everyone hates about them was present in my tank battalion in 1987-89.
Our guns were shot out, but they went bang every time and cycled as long as there were bullets. When I arrived at Panzer Kaserne, the newest of our pistols had to be at least 41 years old. My issue gun had a Colt frame and a Remington-Rand slide!
Because I was fascinated with guns in general I volunteered to help the company arms-room sergeant in keeping the guns up. It was 90% making sure they were turned in clean. He replaced a couple of front sights and we replaced a lot of worn out stocks and a couple of mainspring housings that'd lost their lanyard rings.
The magazines we DX'd were obviously physically damaged, like bent damaged. I never tuned an extractor, or saw it done.
It can't all be due to only using cartridge, caliber .45, ball, M1911 can it?
The 1911 is an old design. It's complicated and needs lots of pay-attention and tribal-know-how to make correctly.
Mr Yam is not mistaken about today's 1911.
What I am baffled by is how none of what everyone hates about them was present in my tank battalion in 1987-89.
Our guns were shot out, but they went bang every time and cycled as long as there were bullets. When I arrived at Panzer Kaserne, the newest of our pistols had to be at least 41 years old. My issue gun had a Colt frame and a Remington-Rand slide!
Because I was fascinated with guns in general I volunteered to help the company arms-room sergeant in keeping the guns up. It was 90% making sure they were turned in clean. He replaced a couple of front sights and we replaced a lot of worn out stocks and a couple of mainspring housings that'd lost their lanyard rings.
The magazines we DX'd were obviously physically damaged, like bent damaged. I never tuned an extractor, or saw it done.
It can't all be due to only using cartridge, caliber .45, ball, M1911 can it?