I bought myself a new Colt Rail Gun earlier this month and I really do like it. I have a question regarding the breaking in period though. To date I have put over 500 rounds through it with out one malfunction until the other day when it double fed. Is this indicative that it still needs to be broken in some more or is it a sign of problems with the gun itself? I thought it may have been magazine related but I could not duplicate the double feed again with that mag, a Colt factory 8 rounder. Any input and advice is greatly appreciated.
Double feeds = two live rounds is a mag issue.
Colt magazines are pure junk. That’s the issue.
It’s a 1911. Unexplainable malfs are inherent. It’s not break in… It’s just the nature of the beast.
Agreed.
If ya’ll say so but I have not had that happen in any of the several 1911s I have owned.
Reliable 1911s are the exception… not the rule.
I know a guy who has a trouble free 1911. I thought I had one once… Then it started getting retarded on me.
I love the 1911, it’s just outdated now.
not outdated just misunderstood haha 
I carry a springer trp operator everyday on duty
but just incase I always have my G17 as backup
I think this is the first time I am in agreement with the general consensus on this forum.
The 1911 was revolutionary when it was introduced. News break: 100 years have passed. The Ford Model T was new in production when the 1911 was released. This is an old, old design.
Working on a shooting range, I have seen so many failures with 1911s of all makes and models that it’s ridiculous. Whether they are $300, or $3000… they have problems. (And, from my observations, it is actually the $3000 one more often than not.)
On this forum the popular phrase is “actually made to a spec” in reference to the AR15 pattern. The 1911 is the exact opposite of that. There are so many companies, making parts using who-knows-what for a dimension reference. I always laugh when I see a 1911 part being sold as “drop in”. Everyone makes a 1911, and some are using customary, some are using metric, some made their own CAD drawings to build off of. Some, I am convinced, are just going after a chunk of steel with an angle grinder and an iron file and calling the result a pistol. The 1911 effectively no longer has a true “spec” that anyone follows.
I love mine as a range shooter… but that’s the extent of it.
Yeah it’s a wonder it ever passed the acceptance tests for the Army…what was it around 6000 rounds?
Like Lamarbrog said, make it to spec just like the AR-15.
I don’t think it’s a wonder that it was accepted- in fact, I’m sort of surprised it encountered as much resistance as it did.
This was a different time… the same era where the P08 Luger was considered a pistol suitable enough for combat use that a number of European countries adopted it. Anyone who has spent any time around a Luger will be glad to tell you that it is not half the pistol a 1911 is.
You can’t say “Dang, why didn’t they just go with a Glock? It’s so much better!” The autoloading pistol was a relatively new concept, and the 1911 got so much right, so early in the game, that it is no wonder it became such a popular pistol. It isn’t perfect… but it was the best thing going in 1911, in my opinion.
The the question is, when did it become less reliable than it was in the beginning? For me , the answer seems to be when folks started changing the specs. I’m not talking about adding better sights and beaver tail grip safeties, but the important stuff that gives it reliability.
Any 1911 advocates need their accounts locked!! 
I spent way too much money trying to make that silly platform reliable in my idiotic youth. It’s like a classic car… an abolute pleasure to take out on a Sunday afternoon, but you don’t want it for daily stop and go.
I’d be reluctant to say that it was ever “reliable” by today’s standard… we have better manufacturing, better materials, and have made refinements to the design of the automatic pistol.
Well if you don’t like them, I am confused why you are posting on this sub-forum? :no:
What is today’s standard? 10k without a stoppage or parts failure?
There’s one sittin in my safe right now. Would be two, but my Brother in Law demanded I sell him my Norinco. 
I like the 1911, I’m just realistic about it.
I don’t consider myself qualified to place an exact number. I think that it’s hard to argue that a 1911, any 1911, is as reliable as a more modern design.
That’s pretty much how I am. I enjoy my 1911… in the same way I enjoy P38s and Lugers. They are for collection purposes. I don’t really consider a 1911 to be a modern, effective weapon.
Me too and that goes for all guns, cars etc. They all require maintenance and upkeep. I do think designs have improved in the last hundred years with regard to capacity, weight and simplicity of production.