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MIM parts have evolved over the years and are certainly much better currently than in the past. Whats more important, I think, is who made them.

Secondly, I wouldn't sneeze at the RIA products. I recently bought a Rock Island Pro Match Ultra 45acp to play with. I am a dedicated Bullseye shooter and have several custom 45's with Kart barrels that I use in competition. As such I felt compelled to try my new Rock Island 45 straight out of the box in the Ransom Rest at 50 yards. My custom 45's will generally shoot 10 rounds that group 2" at 50 yards. Here are the results of the Rock Island, the small small circle is 1.5" and the large circle 3".
FWIW
Phil

The groups in my first post were shot with Federal Gold Medal Match 185 SWC. Here is the group shot with my handload that I normally use. Looks like this pistol is good to go. Further, a friend also bought the same pistol and his 50 yd Ransom Rest were very similar to mine.
Phil

I've got one of the Pro Ultra 10mms, in 6", and it shoots almost as good as yours. It's bulky, but doesn't kick much, even with "real" 10mm loads. I call it "Brutus". It's a pig to carry around, though.

Here are the results of the first five 175gr Silvertips from my RIA 52000 6” 10mm HiCap at 50 yards, hand held with a supporting bipod attached to the dust cover rail and a bag under my hands:



Sure can’t squawk about that performance. The only stuff on it that’s not stock is the Novak white dot front sight and the single sided RIA GI thumb safety.

It’s three and a half pounds, fully loaded. I’ve told people that the Picatinny dust cover rail is really for convenience in attaching wheels. But, for its heft, it balances surprisingly well, held two hands standing - very stable:

Though it does alright, that’s not match grade ammo.

You're making it hard to resist one of those Steve!

Full disclosure: Some here will be quick to point out that I work for RIA, like that makes some kinda difference. It doesn’t. RIA 1911-A1 and A2 pistols succeed in the marketplace just fine on their own, without any help needed from me. I’ve chosen to keep and continue using certain RIA pistols personally (though not all models) because they’ve proven their worth to my satisfaction, as have my 3 Colt Government Models with their Bar-Sto barrels, my 4 Kahr Premier pistols in 9mm and .40S&W, my 3 Thompson/Center Contenders with their multiple 14” barrels, and my several Ruger and Smith & Wesson pistols and revolvers, many with Novak, XS or HiViz sights, all pictured and discussed elsewhere on this forum over these last few years.

I made this .45ACP Frankenpistol CCO (Colt Copy Obviously) using an RIA stainless steel Compact Size frame, a Les Baer Comanche carbon steel slide (Black Nitride treated), an Ed Brown 4-1/4” match grade stainless steel barrel and bushing, Ed Brown hammer, sear and slide stop, Chip McCormick lightweight trigger, VZ G-10 slim grips, Novak sights, and Wilson Combat stainless steel compact 7 shot magazines:


There is that one flyer, but at least it was an X. I could see no benefit to using a costly stainless steel Colt Officer’s Model frame. The Colt name would not have made it look, handle or shoot any better.

This is how it started out:

It certainly shot well enough, as I quickly cleared a six plate rack with it at SHOT Show Media Day 2020 (maybe the STOP tag hanging from the trigger guard improved the balance). Because it was one of the first two in the U.S., I bought that pistol then and there (wouldn’t even let the smiths clean it first), though I did hafta let it complete its duty as a shooting example for the media types that day, before it could be shipped to my FFL dealer. But later that year, because I’m not fond of .45ACP barrels shorter than 4 inches, I just had to change it to suit my preference (it’s a sickness).