Rock Island 1911A1

[Infi-del]

Nope. All Springfield Armory M1911 pistol frames and slides are forged by IMBEL in Brazil. This isn't a bad thing as they are exceptionally well-made. I use these sets to have full house custom pistols built. My customs can run anywhere between $4-$6k in parts and labor and I have no fear to use IMBEL made parts as the base.

Exactamundo, my daily carry is a stainless Champion. Hell of a weapon!

 

[proud2deviate]

I have an RIA Tactical, and I love it. I don't know if their quality has suffered in the year or two since i got mine, but mine runs fairly decent (any problems it had I could narrow to specific magazines,)

The finish sucks. I carry mine in kydex, and I had bare metal showing on the slide in short order. Not that the whole slide was naked, just on the corner where it rubs.

The front sight on mine was way too tall. Like at seven yards, with a decent sight picture, the gun would shoot maybe six inches low. I took a file to the range one day and sorted that out. I'd still like to stick some better sights on it some day, which might be a problem. I've read that the RIA dovetails are slightly off standard. I need to find a pistol smith to talk to.

I did do some work to mine, mostly because I like to take stuff apart and tinker with it, rather than out of any actual need. Just little stuff like tweaking the trigger bow and polishing up the internals. The most drastic work I did was to fit a new barrel bushing, which required little to no modification of the gun itself. I've always been of a "modify the cheap part" school of thought - I'd rather screw up a fourteen dollar bushing than the slide, y'know?

Keep in mind, I've never handled or fired a higher-dollar 1911, so maybe I don't know what I'm missing. For the money though, I like the RIA.

 

[Midget]

I have an RIA1911 compact. No real complaints about it except::

After about 250 rounds-ish, the ejector seems to have deformed a little bit. It seems to be smushed down, rubbing against the slide under under use. It still cycles, however, and ejects casings fine. I predict this may be a result of me shooting steel-cased ammo (like Wolf).

 

[Unk]

Pictured beneath a Colt Combat Commander in factory electro-less nickle is a MetroArms American Classic Commander..the Colt cost my wife $230 new back in the 70's and I paid right at $500 for the MA...both shot equally well until I gave the Colt to my son..it's probably still shooting well.

I'm fine with a Philippine-made 1911 variant. I'd be fine with a Les Bauer but I'm old ...and cheap.

I shoot WW white box ball for practice and carry Win Ranger T 230 gr. +P.

Enjoy whatever you buy.

Best wishes.