That's why I wouldn't buy a Rock Island, but they finally removed that billboard from the side of the slide. If you look at Buds, you can see the new models have very little writing if any on the slide, just the logo on the rear.
I felt the same way about Cars when you buy one and the dealer puts some difficult to remove logo decal or metal plate on "your" car, it's usually were I start the process. By asking them to remove it if I purchase.
I had a friend who wouldn't buy anything ,"even shirts" that had a name on them. He just wanted a blue shirt, no designers name plastered on it.
There are 2 schools of thought on this, some folks want you to know, what they bought, "perhaps name recognition" goes along with dollar value, and those who, don't want to advertise someone's brand on what "they" purchased.
Especially with woman's accessories and clothing, but Guns also, like "Wilson" or "Baer", immediately make those around you aware that you dropped some big bucks on that pistol.
where conservative individuals would prefer folks not to know what they paid for their personal property.
Now I might consider a Rock Island as it just looks so much nicer with a blank slide. But I didn't think the Remington was as Bad, I have to look again, I did mention that big R on the grip which has to go, if I were considering it.
One of our members milled his slide on Ruger which he also Bobbed, and it looked like a completely different gun, so much nicer.
