Glad you gave up on the Block and went with the 1911 style.
Nobody has mentioned the Taurus. Once upon a time you would have had to put $300 in aftermarket parts and $200 in gunsmith fees to get a Taurus to work tolerably, but they were bought out by Magnum Research and the quality has gone up quite a bit. I have one with almost no trigger creep and it breaks like glass. I have been told with a little adjusting, that creep is gone, too. I have fedd this thing round ball ammo and several different hollow points, including one so extreme that the round looked like a wastepaper basket! No feed problems at all.
I couldn't go even the price of the low end Kimbers or the Sig's and asked several old timers at First Stop here in Rapid City. They were patient with me over the course of a year and even held back the Taurus I eventually bought because the trigger pull was the best they had come across in a long time. They universally were luke warm on the Remington 1911's, saying they all had poor trigger action.
I also went with the Blackhawk paddle type holster with the "lock". I love the way it indexes my trigger finger to safe position in order to draw the weapon!
All in all, if it is a 1911, I still like it. The history, the design, the fit to my hand, etc...and best of all, the .45 is authoritative. And the sound of the action being racked translates into all known languages clearly.
