It's a lot easier to get a reliable gun nowadays than it used to be.
This is really the fact of the matter, today, along with plenty of good magazines being available & redesigned ogive ammo that feeds far better than the old schitt..
I also agree that for a person not interested in the pride of ownership of a major or boutique name brand gun, that the Rock Island is a good bang for the buck, as is the Ruger.
Unless something is badly out of spec on either the frame or slide, (kind of rare today) pretty much any current manufactured gun can be tweaked & tuned enough, along with good magazines, to be 100% reliable, regardless of what some (very uninformed) people say.
But if you want to spend the money on a Colt or SA, or Kimber or S&W, or a DW, etc., then have at it, but it's not at all necessary to get a good shooting, reliable gun today.
FWIW, from a guy with Wilson's & other custom & semi custom 1911's.......................
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