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Does that mean he's leaving? That would break my friggin heart.

....herpes is forever........or so I'm told.

LMFAO!!!

Since you went and quoted him I read his drivel and had a great laugh. Take his reloading comment, I have probable been reloading since before he was born. I started teaching my self to load for my 303 Enfield and my 03A3 in my basement around 1963. Loaded shotgun shells in Hawaii with a Lee hand kit in 1969 - 1970. I made my first set of reloading dies in the Optical shop of the USS Grand Canyon for loading 357 in 1972. The dies looked like pieces of scrap metal that blended in to the shop decor during the day and came out at night to load on duty nights. Used a bench mounted drill press for the press. Currently have home made hand dies and a home made press sitting on my reloading bench today. The last set of home made hand dies and press were for 50 BMG and were given to a friend in Oregon.

But in spite of that, nobody but Mr. Bricktop can know anything about anything.

Buy the RIA and shoot the hell out of it. You won't need Clark to fix it for you because it will work flawlessly out of the box. Bricktop is full of more $hit that an overflowing outhouse.

+1

As do I as I read your great tales of expansive bullshit and other sagas. Like pissing and moaning with the VA.

It's your story, tell it however you wish. If you tell it long enough, you'll forget where the truth ends and the bullshit begins. That seems to be a common denominator.

The same can and has been said of you, Little Miss Kevin, and the other usual suspects. Hell, Little Miss Kevin is such a sought-after "gunsmith" he's making a living picking peanuts out of poop in Arkansas. That's quite a career arc. Especially for someone with the nuts to criticize bona fide gunsmiths. The question still hasn't been answered, if Little Miss Kevin is such a sought-after pistol "smith," why hasn't some top-flight outfit like Ed Brown, Night Hawk, etc. snapped him up? (The answer seems obvious to me.)

Sure it will. It's your bullshit story and if you post it on the internet enough and with enough "force," that's close enough to fact.

I'm working towards the bar you've set.

Some people are slow and others seem really stupid!

And you're making great strides in admitting your faults, gimp.

You're close.....just sold it for 2 grand. Here's a nice bevy of quality pistols. Buy quality once! And the value of quality actually appreciates.

You're preaching to the deaf and dumb. These rubes will never, ever, ever, ever grasp that.

I am a firm believer in quality but there is no way I could ever afford a two thousand dollar 1911. Just a quick question, do you use one of those beauties for every day carry?

I don't.....But I would. Have an Ed Brown Ltwt Kobra Carry for that duty and it laughs in the face of $2K but well worth every penny. The Ed Brown Ltwt's are sweet guns. They have the steel ramp insert, etc. etc. etc. BUY QUALITY ONCE!

If I could afford it I would but that kind of money just is not in my future so I bought the RIA I could afford and it lives on my hip. It is a tool not a showpiece but it is a tool that works every time I use it.

I know. Nothing wrong with RIA. I've been buying and selling and upgrading for 30 years. I guess you could call me "mature". Haha.

I know the feeling. Been enjoying the heck out of retirement.

"Above a grand" wasn't even a ballpark figure that I would've provided had I had to guess and not use any resources to come up with that guess. It literally just meant, "above a thousand dollars", which I was correct on. There is nothing wrong with the Rock River that I'm aware of, I just never was in the market for one as my tastes run differently. I would have guesstimated that a more exact figure for a Rock River would have been $1600 for a starting point. If they have went out of business or if yours isn't their base model, I would think $2k would be about right.

The flaw in your statement is you bought quality at least five times.

As for RIA, "quality" is not a word I would use to describe them and it's not an element RIA is striving for. They're inexpensive, the customer is generally satisfied, and life goes on. The only thing that approaches the irrational level of RIA critics is the irrational level of RIA defenders.

....pretty much identical to Glocks then, huh???

...you know, it's ashame on a number of levels as Bricktop really DOES know alot about alot of stuff-----unfortunately he poisons his own well of knowledge in his expression of it. While I don't personally share his + opinion of Rugers---I find alot of his opinions to be spot on with alot of mine----he obviously wasn't valedictorian of his class at Dale Carnegie----he would be a good case study in the self-implosive nature of hubris or insecurity or whatever causes his bi-polar-esque outbursts. Probably should be pitied more than despised but that's easier said than done, I guess.

Yes. In fact, on another forum I belong to many of the police carry a Wilson combat of some type for every day carry.

With your back ground as a machinist you could build your very own $3,000 custom 1911 on the cheap. If I had the ability and access to a machine shop I would build my own 1911 as I have my own idea of what a custom 1911 should look like and be.