I don't want all you "Glock is perfection" guys to get all butt hurt but Glocks are not for everyone, grip angle, trigger pull, and lest we not for get the original glock .40 kabooms have turned many people away. If I can't hit with a weapon it doesn't do me any good no matter how many rounds come out of it. it is a lot easier to hit well with a weapon you feel comfortable with than one you don't.
I agree. A gun is marginal to a person if it doesn't fit you or you can't shoot it well because of some design limitation. Glocks are clearly not for everyone..
Notice I didn't mention the JMB or Sig, those guys can be even worse than Glock people when it comes to singing the praises of their respective firearms. Now Lorcin on the other hand...
Sigs? Back when I was on sigforum on a regular basis... I found that a large number of sig nuts there had a higher than average "firearm diversity" rate than among other brand forums. EG- guys who own sigs were also very likely to own other brands/types of handguns as well. Contrast this with trends with HK and Glock fanbois who, on average, are more likely to be "monotheistic. "
1911 land is a fun place. There are several groups of people... the ones that hide their face in shame knowing they own a POS but are too ashamed to admit it (and they should really just take a cue from Timber and crush/burn their Para, AMT, Taurus, or whatever junker it was they bought) the next group is the group that just makes excuses for the platform constantly (Oh come on- we've all seen it... the guys with the 1911s that jam every 70-100 or so rounds for no apparent reason) and then the third group is that 20% that have guns that actually work right most of the time. Of course, in saying this, it's simply not fair to label the 1911 platform as a whole, just like it is with AR15s..... there are a lot of good guns out there, but there is a TON of garbage, too. That isn't a "design" issue as much as that of implementation... neither platform is at all tolerant of shoddy build practices and abuses of specification.
The moral of the story is run whatever you want- as long as it is reliable and you can make your shots count with it, and you can manipulate/handle it well, what more can you ask for?
-Mike