The 1911 is a good pistol, but just try fighting with the arcane black magics surrounding sear/hammer interface angles and interaction and all of the gnashing of teeth and lamentations of women that result when they don't want to play nice.
I've come to the basic conclusion that it's a good design, but it's time has long since come and gone. Anything that requires that kind of expert fitting on a part that will, with non-excessive use, wear out and require eventual replacing just belongs to a previous century.
I'm sure someone will be along to talk about how you can repair one with only your finger nails and a rock in the event that society disintegrates into an orgy of death and mayhem, and they'd be right. Should we ever be reduced back to a barely industrial society where skilled labor is both cheap and easy to find the 1911 will once again reign supreme. So will hand-blown glass lamps fueled with oil rendered from hog fat. In the mean time, I'm going to stick with modern designs with drop-in replacement parts made using modern production processes that, theoretically, will jam one or two more times in a couple thousand rounds due to their uncontrolled feeding. I'll also continue to read using these newfangled "snap on" electric lights.
I kid you not when I say that I find Lugers to be a lot easier to repair and return to operating condition without dedicating a significant portion of my life to learning how to gunsmith for one particular type of gun. Yet somehow saying that the Luger is an outdated design that is rightfully relegated to collectors and hobbyists is stating the obvious, while saying the same thing about a gun designed a whole 3 years later is sacrilege.
PS. I do own a 1911. I even carry it sometimes.
