You know Tom, I had the opportunity to shoot every kind of Rifle/Pistol in Service & out.
Compared to the Ruger MKI .22, the 1911 & copies like the Stars are so simple to work on & keep running.
When John Moses Browning designed the M-1911 he was not thinking of Civilians like us.
If I can be so bold as to try & second guess JMB
Well I believe that John was looking to develop a Pistol platform
that would serve the GI but would let, a not so professional
Battlefield Gunsmiths repair the weapon & keep it
in the fight.
The 1911 is a Battlefield weapon, & like any weapon of War its the loose tolerances that make it Reliable.
I would bet that my 1917 or 1918 just new springs & Parked finnish would still shoot those 6000 rounds of .45 Automatic Colt Pistol rds
better than one of the super tight squeaky Copies for 4 or 5K bucks.
Extractor
A part to feed rim up 2 & remove the fired case. Spring tension ? Cure under duress, bend the replacement you installed due to
a broken extractor replacement until lip feeding & extraction workbest. All things in Moderation.
Everything JMB put into the 1911 was for ease of use & maintenance for War use in dirty condition that would clog up those squeaky copies
of the real thing.
If you want as close to perfect as you can get with a CCP. A loose not sloppy, Frame & slide, you can go in & polish everything & just like a
handloaded 45 acp round loaded with care, primer pockets trimmed etc won't make a tinker's damn. It's the design of the 1911 that's it.
For my CCP: 1 LW Commander 45 acp Flat Aluminum MSH replaced plastic one. A long John Harrison trigger, replaced the short plastic one.
One piece FLGR, & 3 Mag tubes by Check Mate, new in wrap Milsurp, Wolff springs & Pachmayr SS rounded Follower that's it except for the ammo.
I shoot & carry Winchester Military Match 60s vintage. What? Well just think of how you would feel if a 230 grain .451 FMJ at 800 feet per second
just passed through you midsection
??? Gonna get back up & rumble? Crackhead/Morro Warrior yep them 2
BOOM yer down/
Oh & if my kid was the unfortunate recipient of a shoot through, well I would rather be hit by a FMJ than a ragged HP trying to open up.
Think about it.