1911 Halp Streloks

So I looked up the Paras and apparently they were totally rad and I would’ve loved one…but Freedom Group bought them and of course dumped their carcass on the side of the road to rot so….
I ain’t buyin’ a Taurus.
Back to the drawing board.

I have an RIA 1911, not the GI but the step up. Has ambidextrous safety, better sights, but no rail.
Got it used. Would 3 point jam all the time. Called RIA and their dude Ivan said ship it back and they'll fix it.
He polished it up, sent it back, no shekels besides shipping to them involved. Now it works great.

I just picked up a Cimarron M1911 in the WW1 GI style configuration. I got it in the high polished blue version for a steal but the parkerized version is usually only around $540 retail. Ian from the forgotton weapons channel on YouTube along with his annoying friend Carl did a review on it on their other channel InRange if you wanted to check it out.

Where do the Norinco ones fit in all this?

My friend has a RIA M1911 and its a beast, it takes whatever is put through it (ammo wise) and hasn't really jammed up at all. BUT that's all factory ammunition, cheap aluminum and value pack Winchester from Wal-Mart. Relodes from some random dude are a totally different story. Also the one thing it's finicky about are the magazines. He got an RIA mag with it and it works flawlessly, but the ASP and SIG mags he bought consistently fail to feed, and fall out of the mag well while firing. And when I tried the SIG mag in my pistol it ran perfectly. So the newer mags can be kind of picky. What I do is just run surplus GI mags for the most part. They are old and ugly but they always run for both my friend and myself.

Plus they add that classic look to the pistol that you don't get when you have a big ass plastic bumper at the bottom of your mag.

Built on old colt tooling. Don't expect a colt finish though.

The Chinese love to repeat that meme about everything from pens to radios but I have yet to receive any kind of confirmation outside of "just trust us goylo"

Been there and seen em made. Fuckers wouldn't sell me mothballed SKS tooling I suspect they repurposed for type 81 production.