{"id":3296,"date":"2010-05-14T01:21:15","date_gmt":"2010-05-14T06:21:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/?p=3296"},"modified":"2010-11-07T19:31:29","modified_gmt":"2010-11-08T00:31:29","slug":"remington-1911-r1-first-impressions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/remington-1911-r1-first-impressions\/3296\/","title":{"rendered":"Remington 1911 R1 &#8211; First Impressions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"highslide\" onclick=\"return vz.expand(this)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/remington500x295.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-3298\" title=\"remington500x295\" src=\"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/remington500x295-300x177.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"177\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/remington500x295-300x177.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/remington500x295.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>When Michael Bane picked up the Remington 1911 R1 for the first time, it felt like an old friend. One thing he has said repeatedly is that 1911s have the ability to be more than the sum of their parts. He has built 1911s from parts, and while they all launched bullets, none of them were what he thinks of as keepers. His Heinie Springfield or the Wilson Master Grade or the C&amp;S guns feel like an extension of his hand \u2014 just point and click and all the bullets go right where you want them. the Remington R1 felt that way.<\/p>\n<p><center><embed src=\"http:\/\/player.theplatform.com\/ps\/player\/pds\/E2arxiOMXt&amp;Affiliate=Down+Range+TV&#038;pid=8INSMI4y5JUg0rTRgS4OfQV17B7K888E\" width=\"500\" height=\"300\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowFullScreen=\"true\" bgcolor=\"#ffffff\"\/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Reference Links: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.1911r1.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">www.1911r1.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Michael Bane picked up the Remington 1911 R1 for the first time, it felt like an old friend. One thing he has said repeatedly is that 1911s have the ability to be more than the sum of their parts. He has built 1911s from parts, and while they all launched bullets, none of them [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":3298,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[167,1,58],"tags":[540],"class_list":["post-3296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dropped-shot","category-featured","category-news-from-the-industry","tag-remington-1911-r1"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3296\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}