All this talk of tuning your 1911 to ensure it runs reliably is bunk. As a US Army trained Armorer with 350 Colt 1911s to take care of as well as over 300 M14s and a raft of light and heavy MGs, I can tell you that reliability is Number 1, first and foremost.
I know how to tune 1911s so they run well and as I said above, the 2 'NM' s/n, Forged Frame and Slide, Springfields I've got are gems. And they were both gems new out of the box too. The only thing I've had to do to either of them was to replace the grip to remove Springfield's logo. All I do is lube them and shoot them and they never fail.
The Range Officer is as accurate as any non-race gun 1911 I've seen and most importantly, it always runs. It feeds anything I feed it, anything. And that includes light loads, full power loads, ball, lead, coated lead, HPs and even the dreaded Speer 200grn 'Flying Ashtray' bullets.
Speer developed a HP with a hole that is huge way back in the 60's and it soon was found to choke almost every 1911 that tried to feed it until they got worked to accept them. Both of my Springers, new out of the box with only an initial cleaning, ran 2 mags full of them without either one having any issue at all.
They are my test bullets for feeding a 45. If it will feed them, it will feed anything! In fact, it was a few years into shooting them before I had my first failure to feed in either pistol and it turned out that the round was at fault in that the case mouth was damaged and bent over prohibiting the rd from loading into anything.
You can spend a ton on a 1911 and be happy looking at it or spend less on a Springfield Range Officer, Loaded, etc., and spend the money you save on ammo so you learn how to shoot it well. In the end, the choice is yours, however, a gun isn't necessarily supposed to be pretty, it's supposed to work . . . every time.