Are my expectations too high?

It seems like the last few years, any of the newer guns I have bought I have been disappointed with, having to send several back to the factory. 

Here is todays example. now this is not a new gun, but a newer used gun and I have had this one for awhile, but don't really shoot it that much, mainly because this issue with it really just bothers me, even though it is a very accurate shooter.

The gun is question is a early 2010s PARA USA Expert model 1911 in 45 ACP. I did buy this gun used, and it had a ugly set of hogue finger groove grips on it that I swapped out for a set of checkered double diamond walnut grips. I also did a series 80 delete on it, and swapped out the plastic trigger and main spring housing with aluminum ones. Overall the pistol is s pretty decent shooter grade 1911 and pretty danged accurate.


First Day Home


Group fired at I believe 25 yards. I had a set of extra Ruger rubber grips on it for a bit.

Anyway, the issue with this gun is that the beavertail grip safety is very poorly fit to the gun, and it bothers the crap out of me. I'm not sure how well this will show up in photos, but the bottom of the radius probably has 1/16 of a inch or better protruding past the edge of the frame.

Now sure, I could refit this safety or a new one, but that would require filing and blending to do it right, in which case I will have to have the gun refinished, and then I'm investing more money into something that shouldn't have been a issue in the first place in my opinion. And of course, in this example PARA doesn't exist anymore so I can't just sent the gun back to have the issue corrected.



Anyway, these is my millennial rant for the day. Maybe I'm just too picky.

As a long-time fan of Smith and Wesson revolvers (carried one for 30+ years), I was seriously disappointed in the new 637 I bought for my wife last year. The two-stage trigger is terrible, and I hate the built-in lock. My wife refuses to carry it after shooting it a couple of times. Guess I'm getting old and crotchety.