hcock 45 you know we've had a lot of
requests to do the R1 1911 from
Remington but we're just not going to do
one actually we are happen to have one
right here pretty
cool poor little pot didn't smoke him
too
much pretty cool feels like a 1911
yes it's all 1911 except it has
Remington on the slide interesting
haven't seen those until recent years
very much right let's go up here to the
shooting table and uh take a look at
this thing this is the enhanced version
uh there's the R1 I think there's a
commander there's a may even be another
shorter model not sure and then you have
the enhanced model and enement I thought
maybe that minute was going to be a long
slide but I guess it doesn't but this
one is enhanced I uh as I mentioned in
shooting the breeze uh to I yeah I
wasn't sure which one to request cuz a
lot of people like a standard kind of a
military model No Frills and other
people like one kind of at this level
where it's got better sights and nice
beaver tail and all that and better
trigger uh so I don't know you which you
all would rather see but I think a lot
of people that don't have a 1911 yet and
they want one to enjoy and shoot along
lot uh These are nice packages because
they are they feel better they're more
comfortable I'm talking any 1911 that
has a nice beaver tail like that and
good sights on it it it does make them a
lot more fun now that said it you the
old GI model is just fine and uh they're
fun to shoot and they they just they
smell like history hey that's a good
line smell like history but uh anyway
this is the enhanced model and I have
been shooting it some I haven't had it
very long and it has not missed a beat
yet and uh it is uh it feels good has a
nice trigger I see why they are doing
pretty well now I'm sure there's people
have had trouble with them and we might
today but uh it feels good it it's a
good look gun and while I've got it cold
why don't I just uh show you the insides
of it here real quick before we shoot it
a bunch I've got several magazines here
and I did notice one difference I
normally when I break one you may do it
I just do that of course you know
they're totally unloaded I [ __ ] it put
the safety on and then I just uh push
down and I spin that around I noticed
with this one it does come with a
bushing and I haven't used the okay
there we go and that'll loosen up a
little bit uh you got your check or what
was I saying anything important yeah
that uh that's it's neat that they came
back with these the enhanced version I
think it's just been about 3 years
they've been making it uh once they
started making stainless I think or
maybe they had the enhanced versions
earlier seemed like I I remember hearing
about them pretty quickly and uh it's
pretty nice and now they are making I
think a commander uh size firearm and uh
I don't know if they're making an
officer size or not but pretty cool you
got checkering on the back you even have
it right there on your uh your grip
safety okay got a little bit of versus
the R1 I've not had an R1 but this
versus the the R1 non-enhanced version I
think you get better sights adjustable
your fiber optic uh I think the grips
are higher grade the VZ Grips your uh
opening is relieve there a little bit uh
better
trigger uh beaver tail of course the
checkering possibly there on that so you
got a few enhancements you know on this
this model of course and again does make
it nicer to shoot you know before I
forget I'm since I'm going to have to
reload these mags anyway yeah I've got
some random hollow points and let's try
some of them I'm bad at about uh about
that I don't I mean this is a real hods
Podge there there's a there's a black
towel in that group and and these are
years old been in a barn forever so I
don't know what kind of test this will
be this is more ammo test than for the
gun but it is some hollow points I have
I had to get some on order from federal
oh there's a big wide mouth let's try
that one we used to call those flying
ashtrays that who made those I forgot
that was some Winchester I think CC
uh I can't read
it ah
okay oh well you get it in there all
right so I'm going to now this is one of
the Remington magazines so we'll use it
and I'll go ahe and load this mag while
I'm at it we'll put some of those in it
put the rest of those in
it these other mag I have some Ed Brown
mags and Wilson combats and I I sorted
out my very best
magazines and put them somewhere and I
just can't put my hands on them and
we've been fighting weather issues here
so I want to dig around too much more so
I've got some older mags uh hopefully
won't have any trouble with those uh we
do have the two that came with the the
firearm the uh where's the other one I
put in my pocket the Remington me find
it here oh yeah put in a MAG pouch of
all places so it's the the first one I
remember where it is there so that's the
one that is the true test so we got
hollow points there and hollow points in
this one I put in my shirt pocket so
let's try try those see if they fire see
if they
function well why don't we just try them
on the target pay for Target here all
right you think hollow points will go
through the
paper that one felt
weak okay
I'm more surprised that that ammo
actually worked than I am that the gun
fed
them okay bed hollow points after it was
a little dirty so you would generally be
uh carrying hollow points uh if you're
going to carry this gun and it'd be a
clean firearm right so it's nice you get
them a little dirty before you do that
all right now let's just sheo the thing
some it has that nice fiber optic in the
front
sight I I've noticed one thing about
fiber optics I don't if you all noticed
this I was shooting it the other day and
I was let's see I was shooting at the
red plate and I was going what was it
low I was I was using the fiber optic as
my front sight to key on more so than
the top edge of the site that's one
thing you have to keep in mind you got a
round fiber optic there but you've got
more sight above it actually
so sometimes depending on the lighting
you're keying on that red on that dot
exclusively but yet then other times
you're maybe seeing the black part of
the sight you kind of now combat
distances let me lay it down a second
and wipe my glasses but at comback
distances obviously that doesn't that's
not even a factor or even out here 15 20
yard shooting it's not a factor but for
for more Precision uh work and shooting
it's just something to to remember I
realized the reason I was one reason I
was missing was I was keying on just the
the Red Dot or something there all right
that makes any sense probably doesn't
all right let's go over there those pigs
look like they need some
attention yeah what' I tell
you they have been neglected
nice try the
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gong feels
good here's a Remington
magazine I don't like that I I don't
like the gong I'm going to beat him up a
little bit
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I like to beat on a little Mr
gong look at those Torpedoes big old 230
grain
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slug by the way I did say this was from
Buds Gun Shop didn't I this is a TN gun
from buds whom we appreciate immensely
for their
sponsorship and uh this is pretty cool
be going back to
buds after it has murdered some two lers
like these right
here uh-oh I missed one of them I missed
him
again you smart ellic you smart ellic
just for that I'm going to shoot you
three
times almost could have he was falling
oh somebody put a pot down there
ah got a piece of it who else oh here we
go I tell you it's a nice
gun Remington
R1 so far these magazines have
worked not too bad oh right in the
middle of the coffin out of ammo I might
cry oh I have some more over here
uh what have I not told you about
it uh if you're a 1911 hater you you
would not well actually you probably
would like this gun my guess is most
people who are 1911 haters and hate on
them might not have fired one might not
have but probably have held one but uh
once you shoot one enough to to feel
halfway confident with it and confident
they're just great feeling guns they
just fit the hand like a glove uh
they're really pointable they point so
easily and they generally have nice
triggers this one has a pretty good
trigger and uh yeah they're just easy to
to shoot reasonably well okay uh they
just they're just nice that one it feels
like it's made well and just smooth so
let's shoot a couple more mags
here appreciate the ammo Federal 230
grains so far no mag
issues there's a pot let's smoke that
one oh we just put a hole in
it wonder if the weather makes a
difference on those they've all been
sitting in the rain for a while here
this
week okay oh the other Cowboy neglected
big old soft shooting 45 let's see if we
can uh get that trigger working on that
burn barrel it really needs a couple
more holes in it it's not getting enough
ventilation you have time for me to do
that once more that was just too much
fun I've got to put seven or eight more
in oh that's not even uh one of the
Remington mag there's a Remington mag
we'll use one of
those yeah adjustable I think your over
travel is adjustable on the trigger
there it appears you got your front
stration uh some people don't like those
some love
them and uh anything else I you have a
an extra wide kind of a paddle there on
the thumb safety it could be good could
be bad you might not like it uh I know
back in the day when I was competing a
lot with these guns I would I would I
developed a habit of laying my thumb up
on that and just leaving it up there and
that's how I how I shot but since I've
kind of decided I don't like that as
much I did notice with this I always
like to test a a 1911 with this and this
is generally an issue with people who
have large hands it's an issue for John
uh some of these if you if you pull that
out and you put your thumb on that
safety and you got that nice paddle
there you could just leave it lying
there and let's say it was a shoot no
shoot situation or something so you got
your thumb on that paddle and you're
going to leave it up there
and you disengage it because the
dinosaur is about to get you and O can't
pull the trigger with my thumb up on the
paddle I I can't I can't pull the
trigger I've got to get down off there
cuz I'm not engaging disengaging the the
grip safety something you always want to
check on a firearm uh many of them these
days especially with the little bump
here will allow me to do that if I want
to but uh on this one I need to have my
hand down off that you get a tighter
grip that way okay like that you see
what happens the physics of that okay
there's my normal grip not a problem
trigger a pull but when I bring my thumb
up to that see it takes some of the meat
off of that safety it does not disengage
it and I cannot fire the gun up there
the safety is still on okay bring it
down here boom just a little little
thing to point out there and I will not
charge you anything extra for that okay
today next time I
will all right I guess I fooled around
almost enough Let's uh look at all the
powder residue on my arm let's put it in
this this holster I just uh dragged out
from
somewhere H okay pretty cool pretty cool
1911
day why don't we end up by killing the
coffin
yeah 1911s are just fun to shoot don't
have to carry them they're just fun to
shoot they're great Shooters generally
and if they're tuned correctly they're
they're pretty darn reliable you know
it's just you got to make sure extractor
is tighten up and everything's tuned
right and they'll generally function uh
like most other Firearms but you just
got to make sure they're tweaked
properly so I don't know uh
you know this is just one gun and it's
one humans experience semi humans
experience uh but so far I like the
Remington R1 at least the enhanced model
here the one I have works it has not uh
not had any problems with it with uh I
don't know I I probably shot it
uh 60 to 75 maybe almost 100 times
before before the video was not
extensive but I had no trouble with it
it didn't seem to need a Breakin period
or anything so you know I'm not going to
do a 500 round or th000 round test on it
or anything uh we you know just I'll let
you do that you know the firearm you buy
you need to do that you know you
probably ought to shoot it three to four
500 times before you if you're going to
carry it or rely on it for
self-defense uh but I just had no issues
with it so didn't feel like that was
necessary and none today so that so my
impression of the of the Remington R1 at
this point is is very positive cuz I'm
not any negative uh experiences with it
so just for what that's worth put that
in your pipe and smoke it Remington R1
enhanced uh seems like a pretty nice
1911 to me so far life is
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