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So, purely from a reliability stand point would the hybrid or GI be better?
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The GI design is at its best with hardball and its nominal 1.260 OAL. As the cartridge gets shorter, it starts to need a timed release point. Again, the "Hybrid" offers the best of both worlds and will work equally well with either as well as the Hensley&Gibbs #68 when loaded to about the same OAL, or a bit shorter. I like that one at 1.250, but YMMV.
The 1911 was designed on the controlled feed principle. The gradual release...which actually starts earlier but with a later final release...maintains control of the round until the extractor has picked it up.
A point that I've made so many times over the years:
The 1911 was designed to function. As long as it's correctly built to spec and fed decent ammunition
from a proper magazine...it will function. It doesn't have a choice. It's a machine.