Cody Banks

the Citadel is not the same as the RIA. like comparing a chevy to a Pontiac. the RIA as much as it has a cult following is a rattletrap, loose fitting, thats why all the claims of reliability, but I doubt you'll see much service past 2000 rounds with stock MIM parts. I like the Citadel, and it is close to the Kimber in looks and for the money, if your prone to make adjustments like I am, your better off paying $425 for the Armscor. I would actually compare the Citadel with the STI Spartan, made in the same plant. I have STI parts on my Springfield Armory, nice fit.

If that is the same as ATI from the Philippines, a guy on youtube had a meltdown this week after the service dept returned it with a recoil spring and guide rod about a half an inch too short. His dealer told him too bad. It was the compact 3.5. he took down the video.

I did a work up on my Citadel over a year ago. I took off the ambi, and put on a nice black stainless checkered tactical thumb safety. I had issues with 3 pt jams and worked on the extractor and broke the sharp edges in the chamber and hood area. I put an extended serrated slidestop on and the black rubber hogue double diamond grips. I complained to the Pahrump Nevada Gunsmith about the extractor, and the plant QC manager in the Philippines and I exchanged some ideas, and diagrams. After modifying the extractor and illustrating the MIM hammer had mold flashing, alonfg with a collapsed half cock notch, the Armscor gunsmith sent me a new hammer and sear, along with a new ambi safety, which is in my spare parts box. The Hammer is off a RIA so its blue, not parkerized, but it looks good, and runs 100% now. The sales rep sent me a bunch of ammo for my time,and its my night guard pistol, for home defense. I thought I posted some comments last year about this time, before I started working on it, but here are some pics of the finished item. I left the polymer mainspring housing on her, but I have a few flat serrated blued housings, so eventually I might change the MSH, the checkered poly has a ragged feel to it at the bottom row, but it is no worse than the Kimber poly housings,at least there's no ILS!

I have had to cut my own extractors more than once. seems the Pinoy pistols come without enough bevel and radii in the hook. The Springfield Armory extractors are very good, out of the box. I keep a Nighthawk Custom extractor in my kit as a spare. Your lucky, series 70 extractors are more forgiving when it comes to bending them, unlike the series 80 which though they are interchangeable, feel more likely to cave when I am leaning on them.

I took it that way, don't worry. I just didn't want to re-hash any old topics. I'm off to the range, still breaking in that new pistol. any other posts I might be interested in, send them my way.

I did a search and didn't have anything come up. First nite on the forum. give the kid a break.

I have been watching the prices of RIA Citadel, American Classic II going up. I bought 2 of these beautiful pistols and i am impressed. is anyone else joining me in this 1911 experience?