God its good to be around people with brains instead of political correctness!!!!!
The only thing you can do to make any .45 reliable when they have trouble feeding anything besides ball is to have the ramp polished and the chamber on the barrel polished and throated. This is not a difficult process but best left to a gunsmith who has been trained for this.
At the Gunsmithing course at Murray State College, Tishomingo OK, that is one year of the corriculum! It covers all types of weapons, rifles and all, but the proceedure is relative to all weapons.
Years past even Colt .45s needed this done after purchase. Most of the time you can keep shooting them until they wear enough to polish the ramp area but its much faster, cheaper and simpler to have your smith do it.
Every pistol that was made for the US government was designed to fire .45 ball ammo. I am sure that now almost every pistol you buy will have this done to a degree from the factory. Maybe thats why they cost $800.00 dollars know. The new lower priced entries like the Springfield GI Expert is less expensive and has upgrades from a stock .45 like hammer and trigger, but they are not the quality of the Government Colt ofr Springfield models. When you pay 2 to 5 thousand for a custom race gone, your getting everything a gunsmith can do to a gun, parts and work. Make no mistake, the work that ANY good gunsmith does to a gun is worth every penny you spend. Someday it can save your life!
After really tearing into this pistol I am convinced that I could make it shoot anything I want and it's already proved that it can hit anything I can see.
If I had my choice of the Defender, the Kimber CC Compact or the Citadel? Why heck yeah i't take the Kimber! But is it worth $700.00 more than the Citadel? Weeeeell, I picked the Citadel. If anyone wants to trade their Kimber for my Citadel, let me know!
I bought a 70 Series Government model and took it straight to my gunsmith friend. $900.00 worth of parts and a Hard Chrome finish and I have owned one of the finest .45 Colts ever made. It looks exactly like it did when I brought it home 20 years ago.
One last rant. I have owned many handguns in my life an I have had every one of them gone through by my friend whether they were old an well used or straight out of the box. I have NEVER (knock on wood!) had a weapon fail to fire or feed when I needed it. I have bought the occasional Lemon, a Smith and Wesson 4 inch mod 29 comes to mind, and that bad boy was gone after I had S&W look it over and it did not perform when it came back!
