Originally Posted by smallfry
Originally Posted by BobWills
Originally Posted by jimmyp
Originally Posted by SargeMO
I wrote this in 2006 but believe most of it still applies. Ruger did resolve any issues with alloy frame durability via their titanium insert.

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This isn't Sigs and Glocks we're talking about here, where you can count on them to at least work when they leave the factory. Current manufacturers of 1911's are making them to SELL, not fight wars with. All of them are guilty of this. In addition, there is no Army Ordnance Department to hold them to strict manufacturing specifications, check what they are shoving out the doors, and give them hell when they send out a bad batch- along with a returned shipment. These are the conditions that resulted in the 1911's reputation for superb reliability under adverse circumstances. Unfortunately they do not exist anymore, and you have to be your own "Ordnance Department." This will require that you have a sound working knowledge of what you are paying for, before you buy it. Get a copy of Kuhnhausen’s “The Colt .45 Automatic-A Shop Manual”- Volume One. Study it like your life depended on it. It does.

http://sargesrollcall.blogspot.com/2006/01/special-edition-which-1911-for-duty.html



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I agree Jimmy. Once again, Sarge has distilled all the BS down to wisdom. Don'tcha just love it when he does that?

His last five sentences clearly state the reason most people have problems with modern produced 1911's. People are lazy, don't do their homework, and then they want to bitch about problems they have as a result of their failure to do that.

Sorta sounds a lot like the Hope and change BS that so many people also bought doesn't it? And Sarge was right about that too.

BTW, if you boys haven't visited Sarge's Roll Call and read the stuff he has posted there, you are missing out on a lot of real world experience and good, no BS information.

"Sarges Roll Call" about 1911s is full of unsubstantiated claims about manufactures process tolerances, contradictions, and paranioa about other processes. Also, it's pretty clear that he doesn't have a clue what exactly "quality" means or how it relates to manufacturing or claims by a manufacture. Congrats though on recommending the purchasing of Kuhnhausens book, I believe all 1911 owners can benefit from the book in that it helps them understand why thier 1911 isn working and they maybe able to get to run a bit better.

Oh SURE!!!! And that is why the OP started this thread. To quote you: He doesn't have a clue what exactly "quality" means or how it relates to manufacturing or claims by a manufacture.

And the military ordinance department Sarge mentions doesn't know anything either. They are just a bunch of dumb asses. But you know what? We didn't have the problems with 1911's back then that we have today. All of the parts in those military guns would interchange. I guess that was just luck?? It had nothing to do with manfacturing standards or quality? Try interchanging parts in some of these new GEE WHIZZ 1911's today and see how far you get with that.

I wish all of you who believe the glib Madison Avenue advertising hype splashed all over every gun magazine out there and therefore know everything would just spit it out here so we could learn it and then you wouldn't have to be correcting we dumb asses all the time.

NEWS FLASH: There were dam good 1911's around a loooong time before Kimber and the other "we make 1911's too pistols" ever even thought about making a pistol and some of you boys need to learn that.

Last edited by BobWills; 07/17/16.
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