Originally Posted by
45dotACP
This has been my experience as well, minus the M&P45 because I don't have any time behind one of those. My experience with the 9mm variants has been abysmal until you fit an Apex barrel...then it goes up to the level of a VP9 or better. My P2000SK is also freakishly accurate when I put the right ammo in it. More so than my P30 for whatever reason.
I think functionally, I wouldn't be able to take advantage of a really good 1911's inherent accuracy. I can already hundo a B8 at 25, and once put down a 100-8x,(it was with a Springfield Range Officer of all things) but I don't know that a 10x is in the cards for me. That's a really high level of shooting and at that point, it's leaving a lot of low hanging fruit for me in terms of gun handling and more real world skills that I'd like to have (draws, transitions, recoil control etc) and should practice.
Today, so many of the guns out there are able to hundo a B8. Even the Glocks newest generation have good accuracy. You could pick up a PDP or a VP9 or a Glock gen 5, or a Beretta 92 and with ammo they like, reasonably expect a 100/100 at 25 yards. I do think the "I want a 2011 because they are more accurate" is a true statement...but it's also irrelevant to the majority of shooters because we're talking about a hundred on a B8 vs a 100-10x, and the guys who can do that are few and far between. Probably even fewer than the number of USPSA GMs.
But yeah, I greatly prefer to have a gun that can at least give me 100/100 on a a 25 yard B8