I'll start by saying if you're on the fence about the Remington R1, just try one out. These are full of potential and just tight enough not to rattle, but still offer good accuracy.
I bought this gun on my birthday, 50 some days ago. I had three complaints right out of the gate. The short pad trigger just didn't fit my hand, but the flat mainspring housing did. So I fitted a long pad trigger from Wilson Combat. The group size tightened up, but the gun was still shooting way to the left of where I was aiming, that was cured with a simple sight adjustment. The last real complaint was a bit harder to nail down. When cycled empty and slowly by hand, the slide would hang about 1/8 to 3/16 from full battery. Turned out to be the barrel hood dragging on the slide, hard. A tiny dot of valve lapping compound and lots of hand cycling slicked it up. The last 500 rounds have been trouble free.
The first 500 rounds were all FMJ flat point Winchester ammo. With the slide issue there were a few (4) instances of failure to feed early on. Once I figured out what was going on, and cleared that up, I haven't seen that show up in the last 500 rounds. At first the gun wanted to run wet, now it doesn't seem to care, wet or dry it just runs. Speaking of running, this thing has fed 230 grain hollow points, 230 grain flat point and 185 grain LSWC without a hitch. My hand load consists of 185 grain lswc over 5.x grains of W231. With that load I am able to "machine gun" the R1 and keep all shots from 4 mags in a 12 inch circle at 7 yards. As far as pure accuracy goes, I am able to regularly hit a 7 inch steel plate out at 50 yards, off hand, standing, braced against a tree. At 20 yards, slow fire, I can hold a 2 1/2 inch group, and double taps at 7 yards ( with what ever I feed it) fall into 5 inch pairs (one low and left, one high and right).
So overall I'd say the Remington is a diamond with a few rough spots. A great value priced (mid range priced as it runs about 600 bucks) 1911.
I bought this gun on my birthday, 50 some days ago. I had three complaints right out of the gate. The short pad trigger just didn't fit my hand, but the flat mainspring housing did. So I fitted a long pad trigger from Wilson Combat. The group size tightened up, but the gun was still shooting way to the left of where I was aiming, that was cured with a simple sight adjustment. The last real complaint was a bit harder to nail down. When cycled empty and slowly by hand, the slide would hang about 1/8 to 3/16 from full battery. Turned out to be the barrel hood dragging on the slide, hard. A tiny dot of valve lapping compound and lots of hand cycling slicked it up. The last 500 rounds have been trouble free.
The first 500 rounds were all FMJ flat point Winchester ammo. With the slide issue there were a few (4) instances of failure to feed early on. Once I figured out what was going on, and cleared that up, I haven't seen that show up in the last 500 rounds. At first the gun wanted to run wet, now it doesn't seem to care, wet or dry it just runs. Speaking of running, this thing has fed 230 grain hollow points, 230 grain flat point and 185 grain LSWC without a hitch. My hand load consists of 185 grain lswc over 5.x grains of W231. With that load I am able to "machine gun" the R1 and keep all shots from 4 mags in a 12 inch circle at 7 yards. As far as pure accuracy goes, I am able to regularly hit a 7 inch steel plate out at 50 yards, off hand, standing, braced against a tree. At 20 yards, slow fire, I can hold a 2 1/2 inch group, and double taps at 7 yards ( with what ever I feed it) fall into 5 inch pairs (one low and left, one high and right).
So overall I'd say the Remington is a diamond with a few rough spots. A great value priced (mid range priced as it runs about 600 bucks) 1911.