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Title: Hello from TN
Post by: Plain Old Dave on January 28, 2019, 02:21:36 PM

Knoxville, exactly. Brand new Generation 2 owner; picked up a black one at Rural King last night. Observations:

1. Takedown is funky; having owned both a Model 12 and 14, I see the Pedersen influence in the breechblock.

2. This gun was test fired at Remington. Good bit of copper fouling in the barrel.

I'm both an NRA Pistol instructor and a State permit instructor. Looking forward to learning about the gun.

Title: Re: Hello from TN
Post by: ulflyer on January 28, 2019, 03:45:55 PM

Dave, welcome from a short timer also. Somewhere on this forum is a thread that addresses serial numbers but can't find it now. What is yours...or approx if you don't want to list the entire number.

Title: Re: Hello from TN
Post by: Plain Old Dave on January 28, 2019, 05:20:50 PM

Just under 2300.

Title: Re: Hello from TN
Post by: Zenshot on January 29, 2019, 06:23:52 PM

Welcome! I lived in Knoxville for a couple of years. Still miss the scenery there.

Title: Re: Hello from TN
Post by: GerryR on January 30, 2019, 09:50:09 AM

Welcome Dave. Everybody has the same complaint about field stripping this pistol. I have come up with a couple of small tools to make this job much easier. I will be posting some pictures and details on how to get them later today, good Lord willing. The thread already exists, R51 Disassembly Tooling at this link:

http://r51pistol.com/r51-general-discussion/r51-disassembly-tooling/

As an instructor, I'm looking forward to your future evaluation of the R51 as a carry pistol. I am an NRA instructor for Basic pistol and the R51 is my present carry gun.

Again, welcome.

Remington R-51 Pistol Forum

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