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Taking a Colt or a Springfield and fitting other manufacturers parts to it is piecemeal building a gun, even if one guy does all the work.
To me, hard use equals high round count. 30, 40, 50K plus. A 1911 has to be built very right to do that without going down for more than spring changes.
I've had two Springfield Customs, two Wilsons, and a Colt that Rob Schauland built do it/still doing it.
You take any Colt or Springfield out of the box and they probably won't. Would they be suitable for duty or carry use? More than spring likely. Would they hold up to high round count training and competition use? Not for long in that world.
I'm talking out of the box performance. Not fixing up a clunker. You can't buy a semi-custom for much less than $3K these days. If you want to start out with an off the shelf Colt, Springfield, whatever, by the time you ship it a couple of times, have a few things done, you're going to be up in the high twos. You're starting out with a $1K base gun, shipping, parts, and labor will eat up that $2K quick.
Two things I never do are extoll the virtues of budget 1911s and complain about reliability.
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