Hey I didn't join to start a fight.
But maybe I did come out of the gate with the flame thrower on high. It just my personal experiences with the 1911 that has really soured me on them. A member of gun owner from Gen 1.0 the first handgun I ever bought was an original Colt Delta Elite with the comp bushing I just couldn't pass it up even though I was just starting out in my first crummy duplex apartment at my first real stable job hell I think I even sold plasma to help pay it off, lean times. I soon found it to be slightly unreliable at times frustratingly unreliable at others later. I still have it 12 years later and now know what was wrong with it the dual recoil springs were going bad and the old colt mags were worn out this was back when getting colt mags was darn near impossible for someone not on the net. However even now that its "fixed" every 400 to 500 rounds I'll have a type 2 or 3 malfunction and I just chalk it up to being a colt that hasn't went to a gunsmith yet. what really killed me on 1911's though was an incident that happened @ that duplex a low IQ disabled man who had seizures lived next door. To get free drugs he let two brother crash and sling drugs out of his apartment. I didn't really care cause I was never there I worked for an oilfield company that paid 10 buck an hour but gave you the opportunity to work 200 hrs in a week. So one morning I wake up start making breakfast and hear my neighbors door get kicked in apparently some biker guys old lady had ran off with one of the drug dealing brothers and he was pissed. The walls were paper thin and I heard every single word of how he (and others) were going to kill every body, where was she, were was he, you all gonna die
Is she next door At this point I was behind concealment with my delta elite because it was closest to me when it hit the fan. All of the sudden all those malfunctions started flashing before my eyes. I run for the closet for my Winchester 1300 (14th birthday present) and was just loading in some turkey loads when I heard the first shot, one more shot and then the slinging of gravel as they burned rubber out of there like Charlie Daniels Uneasy Rider. I later learned there was four of them and they had shoot in the air as they got in their car. It was a pivotal life changing moment for me and I thought about that situation obsessively over the next few years like a mental stress ball exploring my options and what I could have done, was prepared to do and could have done differently. Lesson number one I learned is best summed up by Michael Bane's grandfather "Don't own no gun that don't go bang"
every time bar none end of story. Come to think of it wasn't his gun a colt too? That's why I don't bow down at the altar of the 1911. I don't have a history in sport shooting I didn't grow up with them I came to them with a blank slate as a youth part of gen 1.0 but as an adult more gen 2.0 looking at everything with a jaundiced eye towards reliability taking only that which truly works. That's why I now have a G20 & G29 which I came to reluctantly after trying just about every other 10 out there. I should have started there I'd have saved a ton of money on guns I shot to pieces. To give you an idea of what I'm talking about I decided to keep a log and not clean my gun until I had a failure. 8 months and over 2700 rounds later I had a failure to extract when the extracter slipped off the rim. One run of a bore snake and it was 500 rounds later when I broke down and busted out the old Hoppes #9.That's every time for me. P.S. When I first saw the Colt Defender the first thing that sprang to mind was wouldn't it be cool if it had an XS Big Dot buried in that trough !!!
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