gunrunner32

Welcome aboard, and a word from the wise, there are individuals that make their living refinishing firearms on here. They paid to be a supporting vendor and advertising a service without the proper clearances on here can come back negatively, I know this because it happened to me.

I'm going to have to agree with you there. What's their first rule they always say? "Look Cool"? Nothing about being cool though.

To keep the look of being an original since it is a very nice looking gun, I would have it reblued and a clear coat put over top for added rust protection. NIC (cerakote) and Lauer (duracoat) both make excellent clear coats. I've gotten more into cerakote lately as I feel it looks less like a toy then the duracoat does, its more wear resistant and cure time is only 1 week for air cured colors verses the 3 weeks duracoat takes. If you'd want to go tacticool with it, you can just have it cerakoted black and it will still look like a real gun and be protected from the elements. Good luck in your search for a finish.

I would have to go with, it all depends on the material used to make the barrel, style of shooting and ammunition used. I've got an AR15 with just shy of 4k through it and no changes in accuracy. I've seen barrels go out around 6-8k but that was because they were not properly maintained and repetitive shooting on auto or bump firing them caused them to go out sooner than expected. The MK18 that Daniel Defense makes is supposed to get 25-30k if it's a DD barrel. When they got the SOCOM contract, the contracted out for barrels and some folks got a Colt barrel I their MK18, DD told me those barrels would be lucky to see 15k before accuracy started being effected. I've seen a 300WM lose grouping accuracy after 3k, while my Rem700 has a round count of close to 7800 and it still holds MOA.

When my wife and I started dating some 5 or 6 years ago, I had to see if she was someone I was compatible with. So our second "date" was to an indoor range in Cincinnati. I started her off on my XD45. She immediately fell in love with it. A few more time to the range and I decided to get mom and dad along for some family fun and to meet her. My mom is deathly terrified of the sound any fire makes, so she's useless at a range. My dad took my wife into the range to shoot his Ruger P89. All I saw was my dad laughing hysterically when she finished the first mag. She asked him what was wrong with his gun because it had no kick and wanted to shoot my 45 again. My wife is tiny, she's only 5'1" and she eats up any gun I put in her hands except my .454 casull, that one she's not ever going to shoot according to her. It's not the size of he person, or the gender, it's getting them comfortable with shooting and having them relax, and some words of encouragement go a long way too. The one thing I still do the day prior to taking my wife to the range is go over each firearm she will be shooting so I know she knows how to safely operate, load and unload it. Safety is my number one concern when it comes to people who don't shoot very often.

Sent you a PM, maybe we can grab some coffee and kill some time. I'll be working on my time travel for a little while there.

^ This I'm all for discounts I need to know how it works.

I have once, I normally don't bother bringing it to the range with me. Nothing that I could see happened to it, it's not an original so I wouldn't have been too disappointed if it did get dinged up. Really just have the bayonet for showing off. I have still yet to fire anything but light target load #9 shot. It was manufactured sometime in 1911 so I don't know if it could handle a heavier 2 3/4" load.

Bringing this one back for a little more information. I'm wanting to know if the frame on your RIA 1911s is made of steel or aluminum? I'm hoping they are steel, but feel free to disappoint me.

I first thought I was going to find out another poor soul has given in and gotten married. Its good to see the drive to go back to school. I'm dreading the same thing, it's been 8 years since my last college class. Good luck with it and good luck on reaching your GPA goal.

Any of the major brands of shotguns for us common folks will do you just fine, Mossberg or Remington. if you have deeper pockets you can look at some Benelli's. I may be the only one, but my home defense weapons of choice are: Stoeger Coach Supreme (nothing like both barrels at the same time) and a Ruger Super Redhawk with alternating 300gr turned brass and 260gr JHP .454 Casull, my wife will be waiting with her Mossberg 500 12ga and her Sig P6. I wouldn't think weight would be an issue, unless you live in some ridiculously large house or are chasing them down the road. I would have to guess people get the pump shotguns for the noise, I know that's what my wife likes about it. I agree with you though, you come in my house unwelcome, you won't be leaving the same as when you came in. Since I've only been introduced to one semi-auto shotgun I would have to go with a Benelli M4. The one I shot wasn't too light, but it ate up magnum shells fast and was smooth.

I will have to agree with mcurrier on the crossdraw. I've utilized one when in other countries that I carried in. As a driver it's easy and quick to "acquire" your target through the door in an OS moment. The seatbelt never really got in the way or binded up the firearm. I had the Bianchi Paddlelok for vehicle use and a Bianchi Carrylok for daily use. It concealed pretty well but this was a few years ago and I wasn't too familiar with much other than competitive/tactical holsters. The nice thing about the Paddlelok was I could take it off when not in the vehicle and put the pistol back in my belt holster.

I've got a puma 92 in 45lc/454 casull. It's got a 16 inch ported barrel with fiber optic sights on it. No real complaints other than it's not quite as smooth as some of the Henry's ive handled, it's still smooth though and at half the price you can't beat it. Can't comment to any issues the 38/357 may have, but mines a nice accurate rifle and there is minimal felt recoil even with 300gr 454 casull loads in.

Send me the list I have some cash for ya....since it'll be real useful the post apocalyptic world. Live by the motto, "He with the most guns and bullets wins".

Gibson, How do you like that flash hider? It's a DSC Dragon or something like that isn't it? Nice looking AR too.

Maybe someone is better at this than I am, but I'll take a crack at it. From the pictures of what you have and of what I've got it looks like a Post-War Commercial Model 640( (German Military Pistole). According to Dan Shideler's Standard Catalog of Firearms the model was introduced in 1940 when Germany occupied Belgium and took over th FN plant. The FN plant was assigned the production code of "CH". The Post-war Commercial model was introduced in 1950 and those that were imported to the US were marked Browning Arms Co and have a commercial polished finish. There are 3 different models listed; a Fixed Sight, a Tangent Sight and a Slotted and Tangent Sight. There is a warning with this also for the post-war models. A large number of counterfeit Hi-Powers imported to the US from the Balkan. The slides are stamped just like the FN originals but are poor quality. They are missing numerous small proofs and markings found on FN pistols. The counterfeits have a serial number on the front of the grip strap with a single letter prefix and are fitted with a late model extractor and comes in a military matte blue or commercial high gloss blue. (All information was paraphrased from the information given in the book.) Hopefully this helps and possible I'm correct with the model. Someone feel free to correct me if I'm wrong.

Shooters Choice All-Weather High Tech Grease is what I mainly use, light coat on the moving parts applied with my finger and most everything is good, if not that then there are always a few bottles of RemOil readily available at my house.

Looks good, if I did stickers on my vehicle I would consider it.

Going to have to agree with you on both accounts there. Don't have a Garand, yet, but I have one for my Enfield. I looked at the R1 but I really like the look of the full length frame and flat bottom slide, it just looks more unique to me. Maybe for the next 1911 project since you can't have too much of a good thing.

I've only ever sold 1 firearm. I literally found it in my closet at my parents house after it sat there untouched for 4 years, forgot all about it. I normally wouldnt have sold it but my wife was very persuasive. I'm with TMF 18B, it's a cold day in hell when I sell one of my other 40. Thanks for everyone else's opinions, it sounds like I'll have a good shooter out of the box. I'm still going to tinker but I promised my wife I'd slow roll it, if you can believe that you're more gullible than her. Thanks again.

Sounds like it was work the time and money. I got my wife a P6 last year for mothers day, wasn't what she was expecting but she likes it now. I've thought about a refurb on it with new springs, I might have to do that this year. I did put some night sights on it, a reduced recoil oprod and did a black and titanium cerakote refinish for her. Mine has 7/79 on the slide as well, so it could probably use some new springs. Enjoy it and run it ragged, I know my wife enjoys hers and shoots the piss out of it when we go to the range.

I have it for computer, does me no good though since I didn't pack my computer. I'll be on there this spring and will update with a user name once I get to that point. I don't know how people pay the xbox and ps3 I can't work either on those controllers, I guess I'm missing that gene my generation has or video games.

If you bought it new and haven't "modified" it in any way call Charter and see if you can send it back to them at their expense to have it fixed.

I'm right there with you 6.8. Anyways back to the topic of all this. What are the opinions of RIA owners. I've got the trigger is gritty, I half expected that. What are some other thoughts on the overall performance of RIA 1911s?

Well again as I said it's my learning curve gun. I'd like to start learning how to do more extensive work on them. I'm already a school trained armorer, I can pull them apart, put them back together, trouble shoot and fix various guns. I would like to start getting past the general stuff and get more into the weeds on them. Resale value on a gun doesn't matter to me. The vast majority of the guns I have will never be sold nor traded. As for putting money into a cheaper pistol, it's all part of the learning curve. I'd rather work on a cheaper gun that my wife will be comfortable with me getting than to spend the 1k+ on something that I can't learn on. It may be pointless to someone who doesn't have the desire to learn, I consider the knowledge I'll gain from it something that far surpasses the cost of learning. Buying and getting guns to me isn't that big of a deal. I accumulated over 15 guns in 2011 alone, and I've got a pretty extensive collection of various firearms since I started really getting into them a few years ago. I've already got a few revolvers that will be "practice" guns as well as other semi-auto pistols that I've already done work to and "upgraded" to make them how I want them. With a cheaper one, it keeps my wife off my back and allows me to learn. For those who are fine with "out of the box" guns thats good, I have several. I still do everything that I can to figure out everything I can about any firearm I own. If something were to ever break or to malfunction I would like to know what parts were the cause of those failures and what I need to do to correct them. Knowledge is key to me, and to get it you have to practice and "tinker".