I have a standard blued Series 70 Colt Competition Model in .45 ACP that has been nothing but fantastic since taking it out of the box. It feeds, fires, extracts and ejects everything I've thrown at it with aplomb. It has also proven to be very tolerant of different magazines. A couple of Mccormick 8-rounders have given me occasional failures to lock open on empty, but no magazines have failed to feed in my pistol so far. It's also very accurate. Somewhere I have a picture of a 5 shot 25 yard group that measures just under 2", fired with reloaded 200gr powder coated LSWC bullets.
If you've never owned a 1911 before, be warned some can be very magazine picky. I've had the best luck sticking with standard 7-round magazines. Sure, I give up one round compared to the various 8-rd "upgraded" mags, but I have yet have an issue with the 7s.
For your first, get the Colt. I always wanted a Colt and could never bring myself to buy a not-Colt 1911-pattern pistol. And you can buy a Colt for less than a Dan Wesson and have a perfectly functional pistol. You're a lefty, so you will need to have an ambi-thumb safety added to the basic Competition Model, which shouldn't be a big job for a competent 'smith.
Go ahead an keep calling them Government Models too, it's proper when you're talking Colts.
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If you've never owned a 1911 before, be warned some can be very magazine picky. I've had the best luck sticking with standard 7-round magazines. Sure, I give up one round compared to the various 8-rd "upgraded" mags, but I have yet have an issue with the 7s.
For your first, get the Colt. I always wanted a Colt and could never bring myself to buy a not-Colt 1911-pattern pistol. And you can buy a Colt for less than a Dan Wesson and have a perfectly functional pistol. You're a lefty, so you will need to have an ambi-thumb safety added to the basic Competition Model, which shouldn't be a big job for a competent 'smith.
Go ahead an keep calling them Government Models too, it's proper when you're talking Colts.
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