When Ray White’s son was about 9 years old, he struck a tree branch while riding his bike. Within minutes, an ambulance whisked him off to the emergency room. The boy recovered, but many months and phone calls later, Mr. White’s insurance company still had not paid the $200 ambulance bill, even though the insurer had assured him it was covered. He finally decided it was easier to pay it himself.

But by then, it was already too late. Unbeknown to Mr. White, the debt had been reported to the credit bureaus. It was only when he and his wife went to refinance the $240,000 mortgage on their home in Lewisville, Tex., last month — nearly six years after the accident — that he learned the bill had shavedspring enough that when you assembled the gun, the hammer would not stay back when you cocked it. Not wanting to tear the gun down further, I took it to him. It was the first one he had seen and he remarked several times, how impressed he was with the overall fit and finish of the gun.

Well, I bought an R1 today...the "regular" model, not the Talo model (I've never seen one of those in a gun shop around here.)

Something interesting: in the materials supplied by Remington in the box, there is a printed label attached to the manual, giving the specs, and it says the capacity is 8...but it came with two 7 round magazines and in another place in the manual or accompanying brochure, it says