Originally Posted by
shane45
"As someone that started USPSA 15 or so years ago, I’ve seen countless STIs choke. They may have fixed the “mags must be tuned before using”, but the guns were also sensitive to OAL and needed extractors tuned frequently. Some gunsmiths made their living getting STIs to run consistently. "
One consideration to this statement. Saying that competition 2011's has a correlation to current factory carry guns reliability is a bit like saying Honda civic reliability is in question due to all the issues observed at the import tuner races at the drag strip. Additionally a metric ton of STI's in competition weren't built by STI, just built on their frame. I agree on the mags, however and as we all know, its paramount to 1911/2011 reliability. It seems they realised that and the new mags seem are likely key to the new found reliability IMO.