Quote Originally Posted by OldState View Post
Buy a .45 and get a full size. Buy the best you can afford....
+1 on this. Also buy and shoot a 500 rounds while keeping it wet with CLP to break it in before thinking about changing anything on it. Not all of them need it, but enough do, to just recommend a 500 round pack shot without cleaning to get everything a bit smoothed out. It's a pain, but could mean the difference between issues and no issues.

Bought a Les Baer after saving a long while, took my licks breaking it in and it's just a perfect tack driver with anything I want to shoot through it. During break-in it was a sputtering mess of hard fit inconsistent grittiness spraying CLP everywhere.

There is a thread somewhere listing a handful of 1911 at every price point/category to get you thinking, might be on another forum.