>>64123437
Kimber and Springfield are generally good to go, but definitely have QC misses. They currently both have very good customer service and if you get something that got past QC, they'll take care of it quickly without trouble, so they're safe choices.

Ruger is somewhat less likely to send out a gun that shouldn't have made it past QC, but has limited options.

You should feel OK with any of those choices, though if I was getting a Kimber I'd get the next gen model like the other anon mentioned.

After years of frustration with my TLE II, I finally replaced it with a Dan Wesson and swore off ever buying a Kimber again.

Then they released this at a genuinely reasonable price point and now I'm actually thinking about buying a Kimber again. No plastic mainspring housing, much less hideous 'rollmark', factory optic cut, external extractor, bobtail, front strap checking, nice clean slide serrations, under $1k. God forgive me I'm genuinely tempted to pick one up.