/k/ - Weapons

>>575071

>thoughts?

Lol, my THOT is just go with kimber!

Why spend so much shekels on .45!?

I say the clip isn't worth the cost, tbh.

XD

If you're looking for a budget GI 1911, I believe the Rock Island Armory 1911 is fairly reliable, although a little unpolished compared to 1911s twice its cost.

>>575080

That’s what’s causing my hesitation. I know Colt is just a brand and may not bring more features or quality, but what I’ve heard about the government model seems genuinely good.

Note: I’m not necessarily on a budget. I CAN spend $700 on a gun if it’s worth the cost, but if a $500 one does everything exactly the same, I won’t spend more.

Only two sticking points for me on a GI 1911.

1. GI sights are not great.

2. GI trigger can be rough.

>>575076

I feel like you just mangled three perfectly good inside jokes for no reason.

>>575079

I don't have any personal experience with RIA (or any 1911 for that matter), but my dad owns one of their 1911s and every time I go shooting with him it jams in some way. I don't know whether this is because of the gun or the ammo he uses (which comes from a box of 500 rounds he bought cheap at a gun show from "some guy who reloads") but he did get the cheapest .45 1911 he could find.

He insists he loves it though, so maybe constant jamming is a feature of 1911s. I know the one he was issued in the 80s was a falling apart relic from WWII, so maybe he's just impressed it hasn't exploded yet.

>>>>575085

Yeah, your dad bought a super cheap 1911 and shit-tier secondhand ammo from a rando dude.

1911s have a jamming meme about them but if you get a good one and decent ammo, it's way less of a problem. (Kind of like how everyone memes about Glocks exploding).

>>575082

>Note: I’m not necessarily on a budget. I CAN spend $700 on a gun if it’s worth the cost, but if a $500 one does everything exactly the same, I won’t spend more.

In that case, I'd say just go with the Auto-Ordnance or something in that price range. The Government is good, but it's not better than guns that are $200 cheaper. Use the savings to buy extra mags or ammo.

>>575088

I'm leaning that way tbh. Thanks for the input, m8. Anyone know what it's like to change the sights on a 1911? Might be one of the few things I mess with.

>>575079

I have one. Only problem I ever had was during break-in I got some light primer strikes with cheap ammo. The gun shop also stopped selling that brand so I think it was just the ammo.

>>575111

I just avoid Springfield out of principle. They make a good 1911, so I hear.

>>575141

Can you elaborate on why you avoid springfield? I'm curious as to why the avoidance.

>>575085

has he tried different magazines with it? 1911s are really picky about what magazines they'll take.

anyway, if it were me looking for a 1911, i still think you get the most bang for your buck with RIA. maybe just get a slightly higher end model if your dad's has issues?

>>575144

Anti gun cucking in Illinois some kind of limit on total guns you can buy per year and ass rape gun shops and other manufacturers other than SF and rock river arma. I don't live there but fuck giving them more money after that shit.

>>575141

If you want just buy used at a pawnshop or similar no more money to them amd you get an affordable and good 1911.

>>575147

so it's because the company is based in Illinois?

>>575153

Springfield and Rock River Arms were caught lobbying for anti-gun laws in Illinois with the caveat that they would get an exemption and their competition wouldn't.

So fuck 'em.

>>575156

oh damn. that's fucked up. yeah fuck those guys.

>>575106

So I looked up the Paras and apparently they were totally rad and I would’ve loved one…but Freedom Group bought them and of course dumped their carcass on the side of the road to rot so….

I ain’t buyin’ a Taurus.

Back to the drawing board.

>>575079

I have an RIA 1911, not the GI but the step up. Has ambidextrous safety, better sights, but no rail.

Got it used. Would 3 point jam all the time. Called RIA and their dude Ivan said ship it back and they'll fix it.

He polished it up, sent it back, no shekels besides shipping to them involved. Now it works great.

>>573855

>>575071

I just picked up a Cimarron M1911 in the WW1 GI style configuration. I got it in the high polished blue version for a steal but the parkerized version is usually only around $540 retail. Ian from the forgotton weapons channel on YouTube along with his annoying friend Carl did a review on it on their other channel InRange if you wanted to check it out.

Where do the Norinco ones fit in all this?

>>575085

My friend has a RIA M1911 and its a beast, it takes whatever is put through it (ammo wise) and hasn't really jammed up at all. BUT that's all factory ammunition, cheap aluminum and value pack Winchester from Wal-Mart. Relodes from some random dude are a totally different story. Also the one thing it's finicky about are the magazines. He got an RIA mag with it and it works flawlessly, but the ASP and SIG mags he bought consistently fail to feed, and fall out of the mag well while firing. And when I tried the SIG mag in my pistol it ran perfectly. So the newer mags can be kind of picky. What I do is just run surplus GI mags for the most part. They are old and ugly but they always run for both my friend and myself.

Plus they add that classic look to the pistol that you don't get when you have a big ass plastic bumper at the bottom of your mag.

>>575265

Built on old colt tooling. Don't expect a colt finish though.

>>575273

The Chinese love to repeat that meme about everything from pens to radios but I have yet to receive any kind of confirmation outside of "just trust us goylo"

>>575293

Been there and seen em made. Fuckers wouldn't sell me mothballed SKS tooling I suspect they repurposed for type 81 production.