I purchased an old and reliable design - (brand new) Springfield 1911 .45 cal! You can get 8 rd magazines for them - but one rd is sufficient in taking down a human being... It shots like a well tuned engine - the design is amazing...females I have trained in different calibers shot best with this due to the heaviness - but superior spring/slide combo...I carry everywhere - except schools...
Very beautiful firearm. How reliable is it though? I saw some discussion that to get absolute reliability from a 1911 one has to pay a lot of money for one of the top end variants, and then ensure that it is broken in. Some YouTube videos by some (brusque and outright rude) trainer even goes as far as saying he's never seen a 1911 make it through an entire training course.
In your experience and opinion, how reliable is the average (non-several thousand Dollar) 1911?