I'm impressed by all of the reports of compact 1911s that functioned flawlessly! We must have an exceptionally fortunate group of individuals. Over the years, I've seen some Officer's ACP-sized guns that worked well even when driven hard. I've seen more of them that . . . did not.
Among guns I've owned, I bought a Springfield Armory ultra compact (SA's version of the Officer's ACP) from a friend after watching him shoot it a lot and then shooting it a lot myself. It ran great . . . until I bought it and tried it on my own. My opinion is that it was on the edge of function/non-function and normal wear on parts pushed it to latter. It happens. After some work and a then-new SA dual recoil spring assembly, it worked okay again, but I don't think I'll ever trust it.
Gun's with 4" and longer barrels/slides are the minimum I would prefer, but I don't think we can really call them Officer's size anymore. That's Springfield Compact/Champion, Kimber compact, etc. length and just 1/4" shy of Colt's Commander length. An Officer's size frame does not make it an Officer's size gun in my opinion, but rather the length of the barrel/slide is the critical component.
And I am pontificating to avoid continuing some homework problems drilling the elimination method for solving 2x2 systems of ordinary differential equations. So feel free to ignore me!
Among guns I've owned, I bought a Springfield Armory ultra compact (SA's version of the Officer's ACP) from a friend after watching him shoot it a lot and then shooting it a lot myself. It ran great . . . until I bought it and tried it on my own. My opinion is that it was on the edge of function/non-function and normal wear on parts pushed it to latter. It happens. After some work and a then-new SA dual recoil spring assembly, it worked okay again, but I don't think I'll ever trust it.
Gun's with 4" and longer barrels/slides are the minimum I would prefer, but I don't think we can really call them Officer's size anymore. That's Springfield Compact/Champion, Kimber compact, etc. length and just 1/4" shy of Colt's Commander length. An Officer's size frame does not make it an Officer's size gun in my opinion, but rather the length of the barrel/slide is the critical component.
And I am pontificating to avoid continuing some homework problems drilling the elimination method for solving 2x2 systems of ordinary differential equations. So feel free to ignore me!