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Rock Island .45 1911 style

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Anyone have one ? if you do, hows the function. ?
local farm-fleet has a sale on them for $350 till the 28th.
 
Which variant?
I have a Citadel 1911 made by Armscor, the same company that makes Rock Island. It has one of the best triggers I've ever pulled and is dead nuts accurate. It has a set of custom grips on it and is comfortable. The only thing I don't like is needing to carry it cocked and locked because it always unlocks.
I would say if you like it, buy it they make a nice piece for the price.
 
Rock Island is a "medium" brand, not bad not super great. I am sure it will function fine and with the aftermarket you can mod it up if you like. I've had a very wide variety of 1911's (still do) and to be blunt, they are all basically the same. The high end versions have better fitment and finish but at the end of the day you can make pretty much any 1911 shoot exceptionally well with the right amount of work. I was co-owner of a custom gun shop, worked in the firearms industry for over 12 years, carried a 1911 on active duty for 10 years and have built quite a lot of them.

As far as carrying a 1911 "cocked and locked", I personally will not. When I was younger I did but once I started working on them and gained an understanding of how the trigger functions, its interaction with all of the moving parts I never did again. This is especially true with 1911s that have had trigger work done, many smiths stone the sear and contact edges to a very fine (read minimal) amount and while it makes for a very nice trigger (for awhile) it is on the ragged edge of being unsafe; this is just my opinion and I am sure someone will jump up and say they have carried this way for 2 decades and never had an issue which might be true, but again IMO I would not.
 
Slap Stick said:
Which variant?
I have a Citadel 1911 made by Armscor, the same company that makes Rock Island. It has one of the best triggers I've ever pulled and is dead nuts accurate. It has a set of custom grips on it and is comfortable. The only thing I don't like is needing to carry it cocked and locked because it always unlocks.
I would say if you like it, buy it they make a nice piece for the price.
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Its the 1911A1FS GI standard model, no bells , fixed sights, wood grips.
Had a colt 70 series for years and sold it. Seen this one on sale and thought I would ask around about it.
 
Hi,

It's middle of the road basic .45. With decent ammo it should be dependable, which is the hallmark of the 1911. I agree that "cocked and locked" is not a good thing. The 1911 is one of my favourites, along with a K frame S&W.

It's like a mopar, if you like it, buy it, get a huge tub of ammo and have at it.
 
I think that's a good price. Also it should work well and last. I have older colts but they were not 350$. Go for it 67!
 
The only bad thing I could say about mine is the factory mag didn't work properly. A Wilson Combat mag fixed that in short order.
The best thing I can say about it.....my son gave it to me.
He didn't like carrying C&L, either.
Very nice for the price.
For carry I have a Ruger P89 and a Taurus M66 .357.
 
I have the tactical version, pitch the grips get shooting star mags and your set. They have lifetime warranty(never used it, always heard it's good and fast). Strip it soak it in ATF for a couple days and shoot a few hundred itll eat all of em.:thumbsup:
Then start upgrading, wilson parts fit nice
I always carry condition 1
 
You had me going... I know somebody was threatening to offer a 1911. Not a 1911A1, but the original with no beaver tail. I was thinking it was Colt.
I have never been bit by one, but many have and threw the gun down vowing to never shoot it again.
I had one manufactured in 1914, must have gone to WWI as the bluing was too nice and the rearing horse stamping was soft, as though it had been polished before being reblued. I was told you could, at that time, take it home for $10, or send it in to the armory and have it reblued for $12.
 
$350 for any 1911, is cheap
I've never owned that specific brand

good luck with it
I'd buy one, if we had them here & on sale
 
Budnicks said:
$350 for any 1911, is cheap
I've never owned that specific brand

good luck with it
I'd buy one, if we had them here & on sale
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Less and less every day.... A number of guns I was considering got pulled recently.....

Just checked eight guns have been added & over 1000 removed leaving us about 800 to choose from...
 
They are decent guns for the price. Functions well and accurate. Sounds like a good price. Go for it!
 
I have the exact same one as you are considering. After doing some very deep research, I chose the Armscore/Rock Island 1911 due actually to its History and involvement in WW II. Armscore was and is a Philippine Company and they built and provided the 1911 for themselves and the US. During the War they went under ground and continued to build and provide them for the resistance there. After the War, they began to re-tool and expand and eventually purchased the Rock Island Arms CO. I grew up in Illinois and Rock Island Illinois and the company name sake are well known for fine weapons and of course the Rock Island Arsenal. It, my 1911, functions perfectly and I have absolutely no issues, yet, and will be upgrading my sights to better ones. New custom grips were added but that is about it. I also will never carry cocked and locked. Just too uncertainties about that configuration. But I have one chambered in the breach and then the 7 stacked in the mag well for a total of eight rounds. But you cannot go wrong with their 1911 offerings. I even have and will carry their RI 206 snubby .38. Great firearms and even their ammo is top notch. As for the unobtainium of them there in Commiefornia, I lucked out when I bought mine before I moved to Nevada because it was still not on the list. If you want un-restricted abilities to buy what ever your preference is, with out a Draconian State Law denying that purchase, then my suggestion is to GTFO and come to a freer American State. Although that being said, even NV is heading in that direction. Albeit slowly. So grab one if you can and good luck...cr8crshr/Bill:thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup::usflag::usflag::usflag:
 
My Rock Island 1911 is the only semi-auto handgun I own that has never had a single malfunction.

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I know Armscor well and know the Philippines even better (have spent a lot of time there, speak Tagalog and am married to a Filipina). They have had some issues over the years but every gun company has. Early on their 1911's were decently made but the internals were suspect, however they have a very robust action shooting population in PI and they generally love guns so over time the products improved quite a lot. The main problem with Armscor has always been that they are seen by the US consumer as a "sub-standard" product commensurate with brands like Norinco when in fact they have always been much better. This was one of the main reasons they purchased Rock Island, to gain some industry acceptance in the US, unfortunately this hasn't really happened but this isn't due to quality, it is a direct result of the dilution of the market by a dizzying array of companies making a 1911 variant. I have owned or at least shot pretty much every brand of 1911 out there and while there are some really nice ones, they all are working off the same prints and therefore all of them are very similar.

The one thing that gets kind of lost when you talk about a 1911 is that in order to make them really accurate all of the tolerances have to be tightened up, unfortunately what you get in accuracy you lose in reliability; meaning that a very accurate 1911 will generally require more frequent lubrication/cleaning to remain functional. The thing here is that accuracy and reliability are both a bit subjective depending on the user. I have seen some high end 1911's that will lock up when oiled because the tolerances are so tight, the guns we had in the Army were so loose they rattled when shaken but they worked every time regardless of how dirty they were. I currently have something like 8 or 9 1911 variants ranging from pretty stock to very high end and they all have their place.

Sorry for the tirade... point being here, that RI 1911 is probably a good gun :thumbsup:
 
That gun msrp of $530, found several places selling it on google from $415-$440. If i could get that gun for that price local to me, i would buy two.
 
33 IMP said:
That gun msrp of $530, found several places selling it on google from $415-$440. If i could get that gun for that price local to me, i would buy two.
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Im going to grab one tomarrow. I figured they were fine but thought I would run it past all of you.
Last one I had was a 70 model Colt several years back it was sold. I have a couple other center fire handguns but seen this deal and thought what the heck.
the farm/fleet price is 399.00 and then through the 28th they have another 10% off. So Saturday is it for that price after re reading, it makes it 360 plus tax not the 350 still a great deal.
Thanks for all the replies everyone.
 
Remember that everything available for the 1911 with work with it. Like buying a stripped Belvedere and turning it into a Hemi GTX. Ed Brown Safety, Cylinder & Slide hammer/sear etc... Build it as you go. The worst 1911 is better than the best plastic gun. JMO
 
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