I'm considering a new hand gun... HELP!

RustyRatRod - since you like the 10mm, this one's for you!
Used to love building these 6" barreled guns.
Whatever you think of Ted, you have to admit he can shoot.
These are SUPER tight tolerance guns. If you can feel movement in the slide to frame fit, you fail it. If you feel movement in the barrel to slide lockup, you fail it.
...and that's just in the semi-final check. Not just the upper echelon guns, the whole line above the Armscor guns, but they won't be had for under a grand.

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Just to cut through some of the bullshit in this thread, the only difference between a series 70 and 80 is a firing pin block, which you can eliminate with a $10 shim, even though the only issue is preference and ease of breakdown/reassembly. A 1911 with either a ramped barrel or a smooth chamber and throat should feed anything from FMJ to JHP with no problem. Most feed problems are magazine or slide stop related. 9mm is neither a better stopper or significantly cheaper, especially in standard rounds, regardless of 'lit' fads.
You can run a recoil reducing guiderod/spring setup if the .45 is too much for you, which is not probable unless you run a box through a 3" barreled gun. My girfriend shot my two as her first guns ever, and had no complaints about recoil, though she had a hard time loading mags.