1. He should try a 1911 A1 with hollow points… 😀

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   1. I’d bet he did … and promptly and correctly identified the failure to feed as a failure of the ammo, not the firearm to perform as designed. 🙂

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2. After thousands upon thousands of rounds fired, EVERY GUN WILL FAIL AT SOME POINT.

   It is a matter of statistics. Will your favorite gun have a failure rate of X per Y rounds. Good guns will be in the fraction of a percent failure rate.

   This is the entire principle of Six Sigma, and believe me, firearm manufacturers do no hold themselves to Six Sigma standards.

   I don’t care if it is a hand tuned 1911, or you Glock, or an AK, every gun, given enough rounds, will have a failure.

   If you say it won’t, you are a liar or do not understand engineering first principles.

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   1. Thus my comment… If you don’t shoot it, it won’t fail.
      The guy actually came back to ask me what I meant…

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3. My personal experience: I have a 1911, made in 1918, that I have fed a number of ball rounds and some warmish handloads with the old Speer “flying astray” bullets. No failures to feed. However, the total number downrange was less than 2000 (no idea how many before I acquired it) when I retired it to safe queen status because I didn’t to want cause fatigue cracking in the nearly 90 year old steel.

   Nothing made by man is foolproof, nothing made by man lasts forever. Murphy is real, plan accordingly.

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4. For what it’s worth, I bought a new 1911 a couple years back, and within the first 50 rounds, I had a “failure to feed”. I’ll blame the magazine. 🙂

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