It's amazing to me just how inexpensive these are getting. I've not heard much negative about RIA products other than they are pretty much 'entry level'. Still and all, that price amazes...

https://www.budsgunshop.com/product_info.php/products_id/171982/rock+island+armory+rock...

Edit to add: I'm not personally interested to add to The Pile---just an observation.

I have one in 9 mm, brother in law has one in 45 acp and son in law has a 45 acp as well, all good guns that shoot good and are 100% reliable. Only two negatives I have ever heard about them are the slides are HARD, most gunsmiths won't work on them as they eat tooling. Second is the finish, pretty low grade parkerizing, other than those two things, they are great deals for the money.

Gunner

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41 Mags rule, Baers rock!

The optics are getting less expensive, as well. I'm trying out an O-Light O-Sight rechargeable red dot on my Glock 43X MOS. It was less than 200, so I'm hoping we've finally gotten to the point that pistol mounted optics have become affordable to the average person. I've only put 500 rounds or so through it, but so far it's doing well. I've had it on daylight settings for over a month and the battery is still at 100%.

my Ruger 1911. It came in packaging that said it was made in Israel and man was it hard! A sharp jewelers file would skate on it. I had to stone it when I was fitting it.

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Ele era velho.
Ele era corajoso.
Ele era feio.

I can't use red dots. I see several dots when I look through them.
Rod

This is my first one, so I didn't want to go all in yet. So far, it's working well for me.