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Dave01 wrote:

MoJo wrote: The short 1911 style guns have reliability issues the shortest I'd consider is Commander length 4.25".

Perhaps your experience differs, but I have a 3" Springfield .45 that has functioned flawlessly for over 2000k rounds. My friend has a Kimber Ultra CDPII (3" .45) that has also functioned flawlessly for over 1000K rounds. I know there are others on this board that swear by their 3 inch 1911's as well.

I'm sure some short 1911's do have reliability problems, just like some full size versions do. Just be careful using that broad brush.

The 1911s under 4" sometimes require a little more tuning.
I know Kimber has more trouble with the 3" guns than they do with the 4" or 5" versions of the same thing.
But what you get is one that fails to feed or fails to extract occasionally. A toll free call to Kimber and UPS comes to pick up your pistol. Kimber adjusts the extractor tension, I believe, and returns it to you. End of problems. And not a temporary fix, but END of problems. I've seen this story play out multiple times with different people and different models.
3" 1911s can be made to run 100%, it just may take a bit more effort to get them there.

RiverRat wrote:I want an STI just because it has the State of Texas outline on the side.....just because . I know it sounds weird......

Then I'm weird too.
STI and SVI are the most common guns in Limited and Open divisions in USPSA competition. And they seem so interchangeable that people on the net rever to them as S_I or SxI, meaning either one. A while back I decided, without really knowing pros and cons of either, that if I get one, it'll be the one with Texas on the side.

Seems like I heard that STI was in Round Rock, or somewhere in that area, so they're practically your neighbors.