revhigh said:
bentblade said:
Let me get this rite, you want to pay Colt $900 to make the gun work the way it should have when it left the factory?
Hmmm?
Doesn't sound like ill be buying a colt any time soon.
Clearly you're not very experienced with 1911's .......
REV
Clearly you have money to waste on a gun that doesn't work the way it should when it left the factory.
Why would you spend $1000 for a gun that you thought wasn't reliable and then spend another $900 to make it so.
Just so you can say your gun has a horse on the side?
If Colt can no longer produce a quality firearm at a competitive price what do you have to brag about.
There are many 1911 clones coming off assembly lines that are every bit as good or better than a Colt and many are 100% reliable. How do you enhance 100%.
Lowered and flared ejection ports and contoured and polished feed ramps are more often the norm than the exception and with CNC machining should be done as a standard feature as many are.
Adjust this and tune that . What you are saying is that Colts quality control isn't what it used to be.
Adjust the magazine. Start with a good magazine and you don't have to adjust it.
There are those here who have the new Ruger sr1911 and many have had absolutely no problem with function and reliability and accuracy has been pretty good also. . Those that have had an issue have sent the guns back to Ruger and said fix it and guess what, Ruger does. They don't have to say hey Ruger here's another $900 can you make it work rite.
You are rite I am not a 1911 expert. I have owned a half a dozen over the years, mostly colts, Springfield and now a Ruger cmd and a Colt is the only one I ever had to send back, TWICE! In my opinion the Ruger is every bit as good as any Colt I have had.
I have been carrying a gun daily for work for the last 30 years and if my pistol was not reliable I would not be carrying it.
Most of what I have carried have been Glocks and Sig pistols and S&W revolvers in the early years. All have been reliable and a Sig P220 45 will shoot rings around any stock Colt 1911 I have ever seen, and at less than half of what that guy is planning to pay for a Colt.
You want to buy an over priced Colt and pay to have it slicked up by Colt go ahead. It will probably be a good shooter but its gonna look like any other colt coming off the line.
But don't tell me its the best bang for your buck.
The horse died when the unions took over.