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RIA 1911- $251
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Denzel Washington ::my n***a:: meme
I have one 1911 with a cast frame. It's a Remington R1 Hunter. It's stainless with a cerakote finish. It's also a 10 mm long slide I upgraded with Wilson Combat and Ed Brown parts. Even though it's not all forged it happens to be one of my favorite handguns second only my Grandfather's 1882 top break S&W 32 revolver. You know family heirloom and all that.
Last time my son came up he hot lapped that gun with a box of 50 cartridges and it did fine. I will also add that kid can shoot circles around whoever is at the range. At 20 yards he chewed the bullseye out of the target putting all of us to shame. I don't see how he does it. He only shots when he comes to see me. Other than that it's video games. He shoots fast and hella accurate. It's unreal!
I think that one guy that was getting blasted for advertising only charges 20 bucks for transfer.
Is he in gwinnett? I mean SHIDDDDDDDD….. that’s pretty reasonable. I’d give him business.
Here I am answering myself once again. I did some digging and both the frame and slide are forged on the Remington R1 Hunter. My bad! Most of the entry level R1 guns have cast frames. I just got off the phone with the member of the Remington customer support team and he did verify that on the R1 Hunter both the frame and slide are forged stainless steel. The entry level R1 handguns have a forged slide and a cast frame. I'm happy to hear that because I was thinking that it was a cast frame for the longest time. That made me want to go out and buy the Springfield TRP long slide but now that I know for sure that both the frame and slide on mine are forged I can take that off my bucket list.
The slide is what takes all the beating being that it supports the barrel. A lot of 1911s like Ruger, entry level Remingtons use cast frames. Even Caspian frames are cast so I really don't think it makes that much of a difference as far as the frame is concerned. As long as the metal is of quality stock and the casting process is good it should hold up no matter what. If I buy a project gun just to rebuild I like to start off with forged frame and slide. If I'm going to dump money into something that's pre-owned I want it to be the strongest frame and slide as I can get. But that's completely different matter altogether.
