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Message: <blockquote data-quote="mtngunr" data-source="post: 4371710" data-attributes="member: 46104"><p>Nah, you're just painting with too broad a brush...you want to say most 1911s made in the last 20-25yrs, and maybe 15-20% of the Colts since then are a crapshoot, you'll get no argument from me at all...but, saying "1911s are overrated" only because of the last quarter century out of a 112yr run when the prior years set the standard for reliability and excellence yet to be remotely equalled, is to simplify to the point of gross inaccuracy. And just because it looks sorta like a 1911 does not make it a 1911, most sold today are about as equal to the real deal as an Italian single action is to an original 1st generation Colt Single Action Army.</p></blockquote><p></p>