Wow there was something SERIOUSLY wrong with your gun, It's also ashame that you'll carry such a poor opinion of a whole brand based on one gun. Kinda like why noone will buy an american car because they owned a 1980 caviler, tempo, or K car, when they were 16 and the car was already 20 years old so now all american cars are shit. Come out my way I'll let you throw a few hundred rounds through the old mans 70 series. Thing is completely original, and has had probably thousands of rounds through it. Still dead on accurate. You got a shitty gun and I'm sorry But also from what I've read older colts, non gold cups, were kinda slopy. they were designed that way on purpose. They are intended service weapons. I don't care if a gun can hit a group 6" at 200 yards if it jambs on one grain of sand. I'd rather have a gun that fires under any and all circumstances. That was the idea behind the standard series colts. they were sloppy, and unaccurate at distance. but they fired.