Posted: 3/8/2012 6:34:56 PM EDT
| jus bought a new RIA gi expert. have to say im really impressed with the fit and finish on this. This is my first 1911. The guy at the fun store told me that i need to put 500 rds thru it before i could trust it. is this true? |
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jus bought a new RIA gi expert. have to say im really impressed with the fit and finish on this. This is my first 1911. The guy at the fun store told me that i need to put 500 rds thru it before i could trust it. is this true? I would say that with any gun you buy take it to the range run a few (or as much as you can) hundred rounds and see if there is any issues. I wont carry a gun that I have not shot and tried out to see if it has any problems at all. The RIAs are solid guns and a lot of threads on the borad about them. Enjoy the gun. |
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He is sort of right.
You need to put 500 rounds or close to that of your carry ammo through it before you trust it. Put 500 rounds of ball through it. Get a couple of good Chip McCormick mags, and an 18.5lb chrome silicone recoil spring for it, and it will feed anything. Welcome to the club. 
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Put a couple hundred rounds through it and then give it a thorough look over for uneven signs of wear. After about 200 rounds you should notice any odd markings that don't look right. If you do, just call up Armscor and the next business day a FedEx guy will be at your front door with a shipping label, just box up your pistol in it's original case if you still have it and ship it to them (this is free of charge of course). They'll look it over, check for proper tuning, replace anything that draws attention and throw in a couple of goodies as well. Their customer service is among some of the best I've ever dealt with and they aim to please. Either way, you'll be real pleased with your GI 
Just be careful, once you buy one they're likely to tug on your heart strings for buddies 
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Put a couple hundred rounds through it and then give it a thorough look over for uneven signs of wear. After about 200 rounds you should notice any odd markings that don't look right. If you do, just call up Armscor and the next business day a FedEx guy will be at your front door with a shipping label, just box up your pistol in it's original case if you still have it and ship it to them (this is free of charge of course). They'll look it over, check for proper tuning, replace anything that draws attention and throw in a couple of goodies as well. Their customer service is among some of the best I've ever dealt with and they aim to please. Either way, you'll be real pleased with your GI
Just be careful, once you buy one they're likely to tug on your heart strings for buddies I second this. My experience with their CS was incredible. Mine had a non concentric bore in the slide, causing it to shoot about 4 inches left of center at 10-15 yards. It fed everything though. Now it shoots very, very well for a pistol of this price, and it still feeds anything. He replaced the slide, replaced the barrel with a higher grade barrel, custom/hand fitted the slide and frame, and the barrel/slide/barrel bushing using my EGW bushing. Tuned the extractor, worked the feed ramps for the 230gr XTP that I carry, and did a complete tune up on it. I have now about $250 worth of extras and work in this thing for free. A few days ago, I found some of my old 225gr lswc magnum cast loads over at my other house. This has been the most accurate load for every 1911 I've owned. I hadn't shot any of these in this gun. At 10 yards, I got 5 of 5 shots clustered together inside 3 inch shoot n c target standing, freehand. They were all under the bulls-eye and above the bottom line, so I'm gonna guess about 1.5 inches or a little more, and maybe 2 inches wide. I can live with that. It still doesn't like 230gr Hornady ball much, but it is acceptable with it. The 230gr XTPs shoot almost as good as the 225gr lead, and seeing that I haven't been practicing very much lately, maybe 100 rounds a month over the last 5 months, it shoots way better than I am capable of. New contacts and a lot more practice will tighten those groups up. |
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He is sort of right. You need to put 500 rounds or close to that of your carry ammo through it before you trust it. Put 500 rounds of ball through it. Get a couple of good Chip McCormick mags, and an 18.5lb chrome silicone recoil spring for it, and it will feed anything. Welcome to the club. http://i789.photobucket.com/albums/yy172/pavlovwolf/2011-10-23_12-50-58_123.jpg Please give me some info on that knife, that thing is awesome! |
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It's a Camillus medium boot knife, Old Glory model. About $40.00 retail.
My ex wife saw in the case at a local gun shop when we were buying her M70B AK47. She thought it was pretty, so I bought it for her. She forgot it when she left, along with an old, actually valuable, vintage Gerber presentation wooden handled boot knife. She had that one before we met. I had hidden that from her though, after she pulled it on me one night. I found it about a month ago when I was looking for some things in the house that we lived in. There are three knives I will always miss. 1. My Grandfathers trench knife/knuckle buster. An LF&C model 1917, with the original sheath. Lost when the furniture store we owned burned down. 2. My Dad's Camillus Mark I, with stacked leather handle. Lost somewhere around the house here, by me, 25 years ago. 3. The Gerber Mark II my dad gave me for my 13th birthday which was Oct. 1980. Lost around here as well. |
| With something like a Glock or H&K, I'm happy with 200 or 300 rounds. The 1911, as much as I love it, is just a design that can be a lot more persnickety than more modern guns. Five hundred rounds is the amount I'd want to put through one before I really began to trust it. |
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I put about 500 through mine before I started to carry it, but because I had some issues with my slide release. I would start carrying it after 200 but one time my slide release poped out. I figured it was old cold mag that I was trying out for fun. After that with original mag or kimber mag I don't have any trouble.
I love my ria 1911, would not trade it for any .......... Maybe except my sig p239..... Can't decide which one I like more :) |