For some reason, it’s the one pistol that I shoot the best with the highest capacity. I’ve owned it since 1996, and it’s never failed me.
Understood. It really depends on how hard one runs it. If you keep it clean and only go to the range and shoot a box, its fine.
I’ve taken several 4 day defensive classes each with different guns over the years. The classes have you shooting ~600 rounds over the 4 days in a dry dusty climate. I have run these classes with 1911, Beretta 92/M9, Springfield XD, G19, and once with a Colt 686.
Far and away the most frustrating experience was with the Beretta. It has too many rough edges and corners to cut your hands on while manipulating through gun malfunctions, it starts getting dry, leading to malfunctions, at about 100 rounds, and of course the open slide makes it highly susceptible to getting jammed from foreign objects (dirt).
All that said, its great to be able to train to the most complex gun. (double/single action, decocker manipulation going into the holster, etc).
Reaction times to good rounds on target go down as you go from DA/SA to SA(1911) to Glock-like. That and the fact that I can put over 1000 rounds reliably through my Glock and still have no malfunctions due to getting dry or carbon build up brings me to where I am for choice of CC (and my opinion of the M9).