One thing I know for sure having watched literally thousands of rounds go down range, Glocks go off when you pull the trigger. But man o man there is no gray, love em or hate em. When folks show up with Glocks, Colts, HKs, Springfield, SIGs I just know I am not going to have mechanical issues with them on the line. And to be frank a bone stock 1911 will typically have issues by end of a match doing sustained fire for 600 rounds. But there is no finer trigger than a 1911. The grip angle to bore axis is what turns me off with Glocks, I can shoot them but they don’t point as well for me. But to Craigs point the SIGs are pigs, they weigh about a million pounds! My competition rig is heavy, think titanium impregnated in the molding, flat trigger and a magazine well flared like fenders on my cuda, it is only slightly smaller than a carbine! By same token that is exactly what I need to be able to make rapid second and third shots. But super impractical to EDC. As always the best gun to have in a defensive situation is the one in your hand!
Agree to a point. I’ve owned and fired about everything on your list above except HKs. The P226 I had jammed up like crazy. I ended up finally sending it off to SIG under warranty, there was something jacked up the extractor, they repaired it free of charge and sent it back, ended up trading it off for a Springfield XD in 45 plus cash. I liked the Springfield for durability and reliability, never an issue with that pistol. Though it was a tad unbalanced as the it was really too and front heavy as the ammo decreased in the mag. Traded it off for my first AR.
I had a 10 mm Glock for a bit, thing was a handgun on steriods. It was a compact, i forget the model number. Sold it and bought the Smith M&P I have now. Which is to me the perfect combination of polymer pistols with the ergonomics I like, ergonomics are adjustable and the angles are close enough to my preferred that it works well for me. I’ve had a couple jams when it was newer, but after a couple hundred rounds, it’s not done it since. My complaint with this one is the extra mags cost a **** ton. Like 50 a piece.
My favorite is actually one i custom tuned to me. It started life as a Taurus PT1911, full size. This is my competition gun when I was doing bullseye and 3 gun matches. Out of the box, it wasn’t very accurate. I thought it was me for years. Finally, our club pistol champ 7 years running at the time, and a sponsored national competitor picked it up and had the very same issues I was having with accuracy. Thing was all over the place. We took it apart, did some checking and found the recoil spring factory is a 16 lb, however after the couple hundred rounds I put thru it, it had softened to less than 12. So the slide was literally bouncing around during firing. So I upgraded the recoil spring with a kit from Wolf Performace, including a guide pin and buffer system, replaced the hand grips to some hogue ergo ones, changed out the safety for a snub paddle, took up some trigger creep with some polishing of the trigger and some wolf trigger springs. Polished the feed ramp.
Now the thing runs like a charm. It’s a tack driver, no more unpredictable recoiling and I’ve not had a jam even during 3 Gun. The cool part is I have all the mags I’ll ever need for it. When I bought it, the local gun store had a crate of still in paper WW2 era GI mags. 3 bucks a piece, I bought 30 of them. They work great though for smoothness during competition i use the 30 dollar stainless McCormick mags.