It's funny, if someone has an expensive gun with a glowing reputation from the fanboys, and something messes up, they say "it must be my fault, or the ammo, or the aftermarket mag, or the planets aren't aligned right. Yet if a less expensive gun has issues, they immediatly label it as a piece of crap. I'm sure that there are people out there who have had issues with high end 1911's, Sigs, Glocks etc. Just because the one YOU had didn't function 100% doen't mean every last one of them is crappy. So what if the $300 gun doesn't behave like the $2000 gun, some of us actually have to use our money to pay bills and put food on the table. We can't justify spending $2000 on a single gun. If you can afford it, good for you, but don't belittle the $300 gun I bought with money I worked my butt off to get. Let us enjoy it a little. Do you think I drive an oldsmobile because I want to? If I could I would be riding around in a Corvette. It may not be as pretty, but it gets the job done for less money. BTW I love shooting my extremely accurate and absolutly trouble free Rock Island 1911 straight out the box, while all the guys at the range with high end 1911's are busy clearing jams and missing targets.