Buy a quality 1911 pistol, clean and lube it properly, use quality magazines and chances are you'll never have an issue with it. I've been shooting the 1911 over 45 years and have carried them on and off duty for over 30 years and I have seen at least as many Glocks and Berettas fail on the range as I have 1911s, almost all of the failures due to poor maintenance or handling.
I've had or still have 1911s in .45, 9mm, .38 Super, and 9x23, some stock, some custom, some steel, some alloy, ramped and unramped, 5"/4.25"/4"/3.5", and the only ones I ever had a feeding issue with was an alloy framed 9mm Fusion CCO with an unramped barrel. Fusion solved the problem by fitting a ramped barrel to it and it ran fine after that. That was apparently an issue with their frames because I've had unramped alloy frame Colts that have never had a feeding issue regardless of ammunition or caliber.
Yes, every company puts out the occasional lemon, some more than others, but interweb talk has a tendency to blow things out of proportion and keep old issues at the front of conversations long after they've ceased to be a problem, if they ever truly were to begin with, as well as dredging up old unsubstantiated BS and rumors that people accept as fact. This "9mm 1911s are unreliable" discussion is a perfect example, they've been around for almost 70 years, the bugs were worked out decades ago. The same goes for the "1911s under 5 inches are unreliable" BS. And one that really gets me is "1911s are finicky, they're an experts gun", what a load of crap - literally millions of men and women, a large number of whom had never fired a handgun before have been taught to shoot and maintain the 1911 pistol effectively over the last 100+ years. And, damn few of them could be considered experts.
