Lots of folks are saying this thing is ugly. I went back and looked at my glock and my Xds...yep, they're even uglier!
Seriously...a few things guarantee Remington will sell these as fast as they can put them out:
- Comptac, galco and others received blue guns already so holsters will be off the shelf just in case you don't happen to have a holster maker right up the street.
- Straight pull trigger, there's a reason that 1911 trigger feels wonderful.
- MSRP of $380ish?!?!?!
- All steel and aluminum...dehorned from the factory. Sweeet! I own polymer, but I prefer steel and aluminum.
- Extremely low bore axis...combine that with a straight pull trigger and this could be a great shooting tiny little feller!
After the initial rush and some field testing, I will no doubt buy one. Spare me the torture tests, they don't tell me much on a gun like this. I just want to see that it's reliable and feeds hollow tips %100. I'd like to hear positive result from some folks putting lots of rounds through it and successfully surviving some IDPA BUG matches.
Hopefully by then I'll have my little wood working bench complete. Since it's not polymer, this little guy deserves a nice set of cocobolo grips or some sort of ebony colored wood.
Back to that $380ish MSRP...I paid how much for this horrendously ugly, super high bore axis xds?!?!?! :banghead: putting it in perspective, if both are reliable I could walk away with an r51 and 300+ rounds of ammo from my local gun store for the same money. I wouldn't even compare it to the lc9 I owned. That thing had a terrible feeling (but workable) trigger.
I'm pretty excited about this buck Rogers Ray gun, er, uh I mean r51.
. Love it or hate it, it's nice to see some new American made firearm stuff hitting the market!