Budget 1911?

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I have a RIA that I purchased this spring. I have put about 3000 rounds down the pipe. no issues at all.
Most of the round have been hand loads using 200 grain semi wad cutters. The feed ramp seems to handle these well. I have maybe only 3 or 4 miss feeds in all those rounds. And the more i shoot the better it gets.
Accuracy seems fine to me but I have never used a real good 45 so cant compare for you.
I see them on sites for less than 400 bucks. 400 bucks??? Come on buy 2!!
 
Another vote for American Classic. I have the Commander version. Paid $480 delivered. Only fired 200 rounds through it but has run like a champ. I love the gun.
 
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Taurus 1911 owner here. never a problem what so ever other then with kimber mags, go figure.

i have literally shot a smiley face with mine at the range to prove a point. it eats everything i feed it and just keeps matching the POA w/ POI.

i have changed a few things but only because of aesthetics and well just why not? changed to a WC skeleton hammer and a STI trigger.
 
STI Spartan. Just got one as a backup gun and am very happy with it. Only problem I have had is that it won't feed 185gr FMJ-SWC's but then again I hear a lot of 1911's won't feed that particular bullet well.
 
LHRGunslinger, before you buy a cheap 1911, consider this:

The same time period the 1911 was first designed a produced, Ford was producing the Model T.

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The 1911 was designed to be built by hand 100 years ago with the technology and materials of the day. There are a lot of parts to the design and those parts need to be fitted by hand. Even with modern CNC machining, investment casting, and MIM, it's still a very expensive pistol to produce due to the level of human interaction required in the design.

Almost all problems you see with a 1911 are caused by poor hand fitting by the manufacturer.

Other designs, such as the Glock, M&P, XD, etc. are designed with very few parts and almost no hand fitting. They are designed to use modern materials like MIM and polymer that further reduce hand fitting.

For your budget, the modern designed Glock, M&P, XD, etc. will be superior to a cheap 1911 in this price range.

If you want a quality 1911, you have to pay for that old design and hand fitting.

Alternatively, you can buy a "parts kit" and do all the hand fitting yourself to save money.
 

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For the purposes I intend the weapon to fill a Glock, M&P, XD or other polymer framed weapon would be inferior. I don't intend to take it out of the box & drop it into a holster for everyday carry use. I intend to tinker with it, modify it, make it mine. I can't do that with one of these modern guns.
 
The 1911 was designed to be built by hand 100 years ago with the technology and materials of the day. There are a lot of parts to the design and those parts need to be fitted by hand. Even with modern CNC machining, investment casting, and MIM, it's still a very expensive pistol to produce due to the level of human interaction required in the design.

Almost all problems you see with a 1911 are caused by poor hand fitting by the manufacturer.

Other designs, such as the Glock, M&P, XD, etc. are designed with very few parts and almost no hand fitting. They are designed to use modern materials like MIM and polymer that further reduce hand fitting.

For your budget, the modern designed Glock, M&P, XD, etc. will be superior to a cheap 1911 in this price range.
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Horse puckey!! You have obviously never handled or owned a RIA or a Metro Arms 1911. Mine is amazing and will run right with the polymer pistols, I know cause it does. Not to mention RIA's customer service is top notch. You know not what you speak.
 
The 1911 needs only a few things to run properly. First is someone to read the specs. and follow them. That is where many begin to fail.
 
Why not the Para GI Expert its about 500
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Because its a Para... LOL

They have a spotty track record although them seem to be doing better in their NC plant.

Agreed. Most 1911 failures (in fact, probably most firearms failures) are user error.
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That is not what he means IMHO. Skylerbone is referring to the fact manufacturers deviate from the orginal spec so they can use more modern manufacturing techniques in order to cut costs or for other reasons and this is the heart of the manufacturing issues.

If they simple produced the pistol as designed they would be fine but the pistol might now be at the price point people want it to be at. IMHO
 
Perhaps. The context is a little vague.

I interpreted it to mean that one souldn't expect a 1911 to perform beyond its specs, but I can see the manufacturing specs arguments as well.
 
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Have somewhere between 3,000and 4,000rds through my RIA tac and has never given me any issues, not even with the cheap $5 mags on CTD. Very accurate gun as well. Have a friend that is a glock guy that keeps trying to get me to sell him my RIA. I wouldn't hesitate to by another either.
 
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