Omaha-BeenGlockin
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I own one 1911--a stock Colt(except for the grips)----that has been dead reliable and very accurate.
Its too heavy to carry but I do enjoy owning it.
Its too heavy to carry but I do enjoy owning it.
cheap knock offs probably won't function as well as better builds
That's fine. What moron suggested you should?
"1911s are unreliable!" I've heard this. Trouble is no one ever seems to define what that is. Got news for you, if it is a repeater it can jam. Say something like that to a fanboy and right away someone will spout off how they've run 8 billion rounds through theirs and it never jammed!
To them, I say, congratulations, you haven't had a jam, YET.
Saying all 1911s are unreliable because you found one, or 3 that were is like saying all Chevy trucks are unreliable because you have one that won't start.
It is childishly simplistic (and a bit petulant sounding) to claim a design is flawed because the execution of that design in an individual gun is flawed. I've had Glocks JAM , I've had AKs JAM! Are those designs flawed because some individual guns have jammed when there are literally millions of others with that same design that do not?
I've seem people jam semis, pumps, levers, bolt actions, and even revolvers.
Doesn't mean the design is unreliable. Just the operator.
Some people have a strong tendency to take a piece of machinery, put it to a use that it was not built for, operate it ways it was not designed for, and then BASH It because THEY couldn't get it to do what they wanted.
Then there are the people who think everything in the world that isn't their chosen favorite is crap. And those people can be on Utube as often as they want.
Those eighty's Colts were not always the best, was that a series 80 gun?