karder wrote:More competition is always good, but Remington is jumping into a very competitive arena. If I am in the market for a striker-fired weapon, I have a number of great options with extensive track records to choose from. If I can choose from Glock, M&P, FN, HK, XD, and others who have great service records, what is Remington going to do to get a guy like me to give them a look? I feel like Remington is becoming a "me too" company.
I haven't revisited my own thread in too long! The others are right......it does look a lot like the Ruger American, except for the machining at the front of the slide. I think that it's not just a "me too" thing with this particular pistol. Remington joined the modern 1911 market after most of the other producers had been in it for a while. They joined the single-stack 9mm pocket pistol market with the R-51 long after other manufacturers had been in it. They joined the AR15 market a fair amount after others. And now they're in the polymer striker-fired pistol market long after others have been in it. There's a lot of ways you can take that.
You could take it as simple caution. You could say that imitation is sincerest form of flattery. You could say that they know a good thing when they see it. You could say that Remington hasn't had an original idea since it came out with the Model 700. Or maybe it's a little of all three. I don't know or care that much. S&W got a lot of flack for "imitating" Glock when they came out with the Sigma, and again with the M&P. Springfield got the same kind of flack when they came out with the XD, and later the XDM. (And Sprinfield's last "original" rifle design was a pre/early-Vietnam War era battle rifle.)
None of that stuff matters to me. What I care about is, does the new gun compete well against the other proven models? For all I know, the RP series pistols are junk.......or they are brilliant. If they're any good, the price is certainly right. I'm already committed to the Glock lineup for practical reasons, but I'd enjoy the opportunity to shoot a RP-9 or RP-45. It has a couple of features that I like to see in a pistol — one is a pronounced beavertail, and the other is a nice low bore axis, both of which ought to help to control recoil and followthrough. OTH, I have no idea of how accurate they might be. But it would be fun to find out.
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I was just about to say the same thing.
