{"id":6926,"date":"2014-01-22T07:06:03","date_gmt":"2014-01-22T12:06:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thinblueflorida.com\/?p=6926"},"modified":"2014-01-27T11:57:37","modified_gmt":"2014-01-27T16:57:37","slug":"new-remington-r51-pistol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thinblueflorida.com\/?p=6926","title":{"rendered":"New Remington R51 Pistol"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Reminton<\/a>Remington Arms Company is introducing the new R51, a modern interpretation of the the Remington Model 51 “pocket pistol” from the turn of the century.\u00a0 The R51 is intended to be a 9mm Parabellum concealed carry pistol with a single-stacked magazine and 7+1 round capacity.\u00a0 Its futuristic looking exterior disguises 100-year-old technology—in a good way.<\/p>\n

The original pistol was designed in 1917 by John Pedersen and incorporated his locking breech block and hesitation-locked action.\u00a0 Yeah, I’m not sure exactly how those work, either.\u00a0 But they do provide a low bore axis for the R51’s fixed barrel.\u00a0 Remington goes on to say the Pedersen action absorbs some of the kick as it cycles.\u00a0 Big Green touts these as giving the gun a 25% reduction in felt recoil.\u00a0 That should help calm the 9mm +P’s for which the gun is rated.<\/p>\n

R51 is hammer-fired.\u00a0 It has a long-pull single action trigger.\u00a0 I dry fired two different R51’s at the Remington SHOT Show booth.\u00a0 I thought one trigger was great while the other was mediocre.\u00a0 Maybe it was me, because the other guys I talked to said they thought the triggers were smooth with an easy pull.\u00a0 In case you are worried about the SA bang switch, a grip safety on the backstrap deactivates positively with light pressure from the web of the hand.<\/p>\n

\"Remington<\/a> \"Remington<\/a>Under the skeletonized trigger, the trigger guard is undercut to get your fingers a bit higher on the front strap, which is checkered at 25 lines per inch.\u00a0 Magazine releases are found on both sides of the very aluminum frame.\u00a0 Did I mention that this is a metal gun?\u00a0 Well, the grip scales are polymer.<\/p>\n

I have heard the words “pocket pistol” and “sub-compact” used to describe the R51.\u00a0 They better describe the older Model 51.\u00a0 Both guns are of a comparable size: a little over 6 1\/2 inches in length, around 1 inch in width, and just at 22 ounces in weight.\u00a0 In its time, the Model 51 was considered a pocket gun.\u00a0 This is not true of the R51 in 2014.\u00a0 It is more accurately called a compact.<\/p>\n

\"Remington<\/a>After I had made a beeline for the Glock 42 at Media Day at the Range, I immediately went in search of a Remington R51 to shoot.\u00a0 Remington Gunner Travis Tomasie said he had been carrying his R51 for a few months and he really liked it.\u00a0 In the swirling dust of the shooting lanes, he sheepishly apologized that no R51’s were at the range for us.\u00a0 Dang it!<\/p>\n

\"Remington<\/a> \"Remington<\/a> \"Remington<\/a>This led to conspiracy theories about the R51 amongst the assembled Press Corps during the week.\u00a0 No R51 at Media Day?\u00a0 There were whisperings, rumors, clandestine meetings in parking garages.\u00a0 It seemed the like Remington booth became aRea 51, a place of secrets and speculation.\u00a0 Since other invited Media had gone to Gunsite Academy in Paulden, AZ last December to fire thousands of rounds through R51’s, I was not moved by the conjecture.\u00a0 Okay, maybe a little.<\/p>\n

Remington said the new R51 will be shipping on February 1 with an MSRP of $389.00.\u00a0 There is also a Crimson Trace laser-equipped R51.\u00a0 Companies Fobus, Galco, Crossbreed and others are supposed to have holsters ready at the gun’s release.<\/p>\n

I still just want to shoot the R51.\u00a0 The rounded design reminds me of the plastic Star Trek disk-shooting phasers from my youth.\u00a0 The future is truly grounded in the past.\"Star<\/a><\/p>\n

Randall<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Remington Arms Company is introducing the new R51, a modern interpretation of the the Remington Model 51 “pocket pistol” from the turn of the century.\u00a0 The R51 is intended to be a 9mm Parabellum concealed carry pistol with a single-stacked magazine and 7+1 round capacity.\u00a0 Its futuristic looking exterior disguises 100-year-old technology—in a good way. The original pistol was designed in 1917 by John Pedersen and incorporated his locking breech block and hesitation-locked action.\u00a0 Yeah, I’m not sure exactly how those work, either.\u00a0 But they do provide a low bore axis for the R51’s fixed barrel.\u00a0 Remington goes on to say the Pedersen action absorbs some of the kick as … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[34,6,33],"tags":[212,413,787,827],"class_list":["post-6926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-concealed-carry","category-firearms","category-off-duty","tag-concealed-carry-gun","tag-police-back-up-gun","tag-remington","tag-shot-show"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p28xkp-1NI","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thinblueflorida.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6926","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thinblueflorida.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thinblueflorida.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thinblueflorida.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thinblueflorida.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6926"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/thinblueflorida.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6926\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6957,"href":"https:\/\/thinblueflorida.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6926\/revisions\/6957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thinblueflorida.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thinblueflorida.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thinblueflorida.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}