Quote Originally Posted by mayonaise View Post
MIM parts that are going to fail, usually fail early in service. At least that's been my experience and from what I've seen. I have a Kimber 1911 that is 10 years old and has 25K plus through it. None of the MIM parts have broken except one extractor and I can't blame that on it being a MIM part. Just worn out.

I can see the advantage of better quality parts for a hard use gun. Especially a fighting gun.
25K rounds with just a broken extractor? How much better than that is necessary in a fighting pistol?