Originally Posted by
theJanitor
-better reliability than any other 1911 pattern gun (great, but the context this pistol is being used in, is a duty environment. compare it to a glock, not a 1911)
-using gen2 mags with modified feed lips and are testing gen3 (so the mags STILL aren't optimal? Why are there aftermarket mags proclaiming BETTER performance than the factory mags?)
I'm freaking desperate to buy one of these new pattern 2011, but the logic doesn't add up. If the mags were the problem, then new mags in the OLD 2011 should solve the problems. If it was the design of the gun that was the issue, how do you account for the best pistolsmiths in the 1911 world, saying the problems were inherently in the mags. Surely we aren't implying that they don't know how to make a pistol work. I asked Buck over on LF if new mags in older guns are the fix and I got no response. Granted, I didn't ask twice, and I don't know anyone with a new pistol, whose willing to get OLD mags to see if the pistol "redesign" was substantial. How do we reconcile the observation that all of a sudden, "2011" builders are now everywhere (NH, Chambers, Atlas, fowler, etc). Did they all have a revelation in design at the same time, or is it the magic in the mag? But then we come full circle on why we're needing a third generation of mags in just a few years.