a taurus 1911 ($500-600) can only produce 1" groups at 25yrds (the expensive guns for what they cost must be able to put all your shots through the same hole:rolleyes:)...
The Taurus.... More like 2.55" ..... 5 Shot groups at 25 yards..
I like Ed Browns & Les Baers & Wilson Combat but to each his own.. for the money the Taurus is a decent pistol
From Shooting Times Magazine
A Real Shooter
With all this pedigree, it's almost anticlimactic to say how the PT 1911 shoots--but it shoots well. Face it; the Model 1911 pistol is such a time-proven design, and all of its manufacturing idiosyncrasies have been worked out for so long, that a gunmaker would have to be really bad to screw one up. I had the opportunity to run five varied commercial .45 ACP loads through the preproduction review sample. Thanks to the Heinie sights and a crisp 3.25-pound trigger pull, my first full-magazine familiarization runs fired offhand at 50 feet with Federal's Personal Defense load printed at about 2.5 inches, which is certainly what I'd expect from any tightly fitted and full-featured Model 1911 pistol. The overall average for all five loads from benchrest at 25 yards was essentially the same.
PT 1911 averaged 2.55 inches for five-shot groups at 25 yards with five different factory loads.