Tom:
Without question, today’s 1911 style pistol buyers are dedicated tweakers, and that may be part of the problem. A cottage industry has provided them with an endless selection of superfluous gadgets and I seen examples that were literally tweaked to death.
But the issue isn’t that. It is outrage on my part that an individual can’t buy a pistol, take it out of the box, load the magazine(s) that came with it, and go shoot it successfully – and not have to do any tweaking.
If one buys a Glock, SIG, Beretta, Springfield XD (but not one of their 1911s) Ruger, H&K – the list could go on, or one of the 1911 pistols we used to buy, this was and is the case.
But these day’s people are willing go out and buy 1911style pistols (and no others) with the expectation that they may not work out-of-the-box, and accept that to be a necessary fact of life.
I’m only pointing this out, and asking: “If previous manufacturers could make ordinary 1911 or 1911A1 service pistols that did work consistently out-of-the-box (which they did, and often under wartime conditions), and other manufacturers can make different service pistols that also work the way they should…”
“Why can’t current makers of 1911 style pistols do the same, and why isn’t it expected that they do so?” :banghead: