Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Handguns Thoughts on Rock Island Armory?

I concede you the win on this one.

I prefer RRA to RIA. Too bad they don't make them any more.

Here's mine:




Now go back and look at the RIA and see if you can tell any difference.

No offense, but that's apples to oranges. The RIA is a low end pistol that you might term, entry-level. Nothing wrong with it, but it isn't a Colt. From what I remember of them, RRA was a fairly high end manufacturer and they charged commensurately. You generally can get a RIA for less than $500 whereas the RRA were all above a grand, unless I'm mistaken. The RRA are made here too.

Viking, pay no attention to Bricktop. He had an idiot weld on a RIA slide and then comment that it seemed a little soft when he tried to machine it. Bricktop refuses to look at any facts that welding on a heat treated piece of steel will take the affected steel above the critical temperature of 1750 and if not re heat treated the steel could be anything. From that one comment from the idiot doing the welding he has been on his stupid soapbox shouting profanity and insults but saying nothing worth reading.

My RIA has functioned flawlessly for almost two years of heavy use and has lived on my hip almost every day.

C'mon Scott.....give the guy some credit. He's been on a soap box shouting profanity and saying nothing worth reading LONG before RIA ever came up!

I don't see how you've had much time to commit to any "heavy use" of anything outside of pissing and moaning about your sadsack life and horseshit VA troubles. Take some more lithium and shut the f*ck up, whiner.

You still have a case of the red ass after I told you to go pound sand when you were trying to buy the LCP I was selling two years ago. (No, you don't gain a discount by making it a "FTF" transaction, dumbass.) Yours is a typical deadbeat/sour grapes response. I expected nothing less.

Must take some serious stupidity to keep posting to someone smart enough to put your foul ass on ignore.

Must take some serious insecurity to have to announce that.

I have still yet to hear why you say RIA uses inferior steel. You stated Clark won't work on them, and a simple phone call to Clark has proven that wrong. So how do you figure?
Are they softer than a USGI 1911 or harder?

My first two 1911's were RIA's one 45 one 9mm both functioned well and were used in IDPA.The only reason they were sold was I
liked the platform so much I replaced them with higher end guns.

He just states his mad up lies as facts and curses at us to prove his crap. No real facts enter into his arguments only foul language and insults. I no longer read what he writes but can pretty well guess accurately.

Just as long as the OP knows BT is just spewing and the truth lays far from his posts everything will be OK.

The reason that RIA pistols are so bad is that they are as soft as chocolate butter and do not hold up to heat treating. Have you ever tried to heat treat chocolate butter? It ain't easy I can tell you.

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Poor fella that Bricktop - I hope he finds someone to argue with SOON so he doesn't dry up and blow away......

Don't know why you all just don't blow Bricktop off. Obviously he's really only interested in redirecting things off topic and onto himself. This thread started out about Rock Island .45s and yet again managed to drift back onto his ego - now I'll wait for the response!

My only reason for responding to him is so that the original poster knows BT is just full of hot air and really knows nothing about RIAs. I own one, I know what they will do. Mine is NOT soft and mine has yet failed to function in any way.

You ought to focus your efforts on reading comprehension. The general focus of this thread from the second post onward has been to drive the discussion to me and away from the actual topic. You all have obviously spent a great deal of time thinking about me, certainly more than I have of you.

More and more of these "discussions" in which I find myself are with people unfit to wipe my ass or empty the trash in my reloading room. There are reloading discussions where one or more of the antagonists make subsequent posts indicating they've never handloaded handgun ammunition or even handloaded. Or discussions regarding bolt action rifles and the various decedents later express astonishment that Winchester made push-feed 7x57mms or whatever. Or handgun discussions where self-appointed "experts" subsequently reveal that they never knew Ruger or whomever made or makes a revolver in such-and-such configuration or chambering.

Why in the f*ck am I wasting an hour or even a minute of my precious time discussing any-f*cking-thing with anyone like that? I would never associate with morons like that outside of an internet message board, because morons like that wouldn't be permitted the opportunity to utter a single word in public. That's called reality: get some.

You ladies may, therefore, continue to wander in the wilderness and discuss the relative "merits" of your [bleep] items while sniffing each others' cornholes.

Always go fishing with good bait!