yeah yeah yeah. It's true, I've only owned one 1911, and let me tell you, that was enough. It could be because Paras suck, I don't know. I had a friend with a P10 that was a jammamatic, even worse than my P14 POS. I've shot quite a few Springfield Armory 1911's, some were OK, some sucked. One of them stovepiped just about every 3rd round.
The reason IPSC guys use 1911's is because they've rigged the power factor so that you have to use .45 (at least, that's what I was told).
As far as the extractor design, yes, I DO have a problem with the fact that a piece of steel that has to be hard (to extract thousands of rounds reliably) also has to be ductile (to act as a spring). Sorry, you can't have it both ways. This is why just about every handgun that has come out since the 1911 has a spring loaded extractor.
Lastly, I do not think my lorcin example is so far fetched. The point is that any gun, even a 1911, can me made reliable with a lot of TLC. But a good gun design shouldn't need it. If you wigged out a lorcin with all kinds of crazy machined extended safties, slide stops, beavertail safeties, trigger jobs, blah blah blah yes, it would be a good gun. Of couse, the question would be, why not customize a better gun to begin with, rather than a crappy lorcin? Yes... well, i would say the same thing about all this 1911 customization. How well do you think your 1911 would feed hollowpoints if you didn't have someone polish the feedramp?
Putting a gun in the mud says nothing about it's reliability. I could put the biggest POS in the world in a pile of dirt. What does that prove? That's right... nothing.
Oh yeah, and when it comes to military testing and evaluation of firearms, excuse me if I lose interest. Aren't these the same clowns that told us the M14 was better rifle than the AR-15 in the 50's?!!? C'mon! It's the same thing over and over with them, keep the old, screw the new, fire discipline over volume of fire, blah blah blah. Just a bunch of old guys who think that if it "ain't got a traditional stock like the old springfield, I don't want it. Now a Garand, there's a rifle!". It's closed-minded backwards ideas like that which got our troops killed in Vietnam as we scrambled to introduce the M16 ASAP when we realized how outgunned we were against the AK-47. The same bunch that kept us with the 1911 for decades, while the rest of the world moved forward with the browning hi power. The only reason the military never realized how out of date the 1911 design was can be attributed to the fact that pistols have little if any role in military combat.
I'll take my Delta Elite over anyother 1911. Great gun even better cartridge. The 45 has the ballistic quality's of a brick
