After skimming this thread, I didn't see this quote:
"1911s are what you show your friends. Glocks are what you show your enemies."
If someone has already posted that, it bears repeating. Glocks and 1911s are both excellent weapons. There is a lot more work involved in owning and maintaining a 1911 than there is with a Glock. You can buy a Glock, load it up, and be supremely confident that it will function 100% with whatever ammo you feed it, bone stock. You'd be a fool to do that with a 1911. To get a dead-nuts reliable 1911, you have to either spend a good deal of money, or be very lucky, or both. That said, a properly spec'd and tuned 1911 makes the Glock look like a farm implement by comparison.
To say whether the Glock or the 1911 is "better" is impossible, both have their uses and places. I own and love both.
Sorry but in my experience of decades of 1911 ownership my view is that the myth of the 1911 that needs tons of work to be reliable and accurate is just that a myth.
I used to shoot expert year after year on the USMC pistol range with rattle trap bone stock and beat to hell 1911s. I didn't experience the failures commonly discussed online any more than I did when we went to M92s and no more than any other semi auto I owned.
In fact for 16 yrs as a Marine I never owned a fancy 1911. I didn't buy a Kimber until my first civilian job and didn't buy a Wilson until I became an executive.
As I said earlier the chief issue with 1911s are people taking sandpaper, dremels and other stuff and polishing feed ramps and slide rails and other garbage. The other issue that is prevalent are magazines. The 1911 mag is definitely a weak point in the system. Bone stock mags are often garbage. And I have seen many a man buy a very expensive 1911 and aside from the mags that it came with they often buy surplus mags out of a box at a range or gun show/gun store.
The 3rd issue is limp wristing. A 1911 has to be held and shot properly if you limp wrist it it will fail.
4th is improper weighted or worn springs. Especially on used pistols. Anyone buying a used 1911 regardless of round count should probably put factory spec recoil spring, firing pin spring, etc. and maybe a new extractor. Just to be safe. I have seen many a 1911 fail due to auto shok buffers and other goofy gimmicks. I don't think 1911s need fancy springs and gimmicks at least in my experience.
Expensive 1911s that have tight rails that need to have 500-1K rounds through it before they function properly is a dubious issue to me. But I freely admit I have no real information or data etc to confirm or deny it but it just seems to me that if a pistol is built properly, maintained properly and lubricated correctly you should have to wear it down to make it work right.
Many 1911 fans respond to Glock claims of invincibility by discussing the unsupported chamber issue of a Glock. I own a G21 and love it but I am not a Glock expert by any means. Mine seems to have an adequate chamber so not sure if that is a caliber issue with other glocks but KBs on glocks I think are over stated and often linked to reloads. Friends don't let friends shoot reloads
And I mean reloads done by someone else. I don't hand my buddies reloads I have done and don't shoot theirs. I probably shouldn't even shoot my own reloads as goofy as I am and my knack for being distracted by shiny objects.
Ultimately, I don't think you need a super duper expensive 1911. I am fairly certain that most respectable gun makers can put out a reliable and accurate 1911 that is an effective handgun right out of the box.
Shooting good ammo, in good serviceable magazines, practicing proper maintenance and lube instructions; a new 1911 should need little if any tweaking to have it perform exceedingly well out of the box.
BTW my Glock21 has had more "upgrading" than any 1911 I have owned. I have an after market trigger, Hogue (I think) rubber grip, extended slide release, extended mag release, a poison dart dispenser and martini maker (stirred kind) pen and pencil set holder and an after market barrel.
Pulling a stock Glock trigger is as cringe worthy as fingernails on a chalkboard. J/K
Anyhow that is my opinion on the matter. A very wordy and boring way to say, I like em both.
Eeeeeew! :barf: No thanks! 
