That's a gorgeous pistol. Sorry to hear you need to sell. Try to find another way or find something else to sell. After the bobtail work can't imagine you want to let it go.
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Thanks, I don't want to let it go but the surgery is more important at this point in life. A torn retina in in December and a detached retina in February, both required surgery, and left me with blurry impaired vision in my left eye. Another procedure at the end of May hopefully will improve it. I haven't been able to drive since, my wife drives me everywhere. The copay was unexpected, but specialists don't come cheap.
Certainly understand. Hope you full sight returns. Need to stay as healthy as possible. Wishing you well in the surgery and a great return on the sale of your very special Garrison
Diamondback
Operator
After one botched safety and a replacement, FINALLY have one fitted that locks tight and works right... now I need to tear this big b**ch down again far enough to extract the trigger and cut the oertravel stop down by 1/16". (That's why no mag catch, the OT works by contacting the catch and rigt now it means ZERO trigger movement.)
yotehtr
Custom
None of your pictures show up for me. Small square w/red X.Last of the 1911 gun porn for the night, but I can keep going. This is a Chris Kyle special edition TRP. Interesting fact some knowledgable people at Springfield know were Chris’s personal TRP is. Last I heard it is still in police custody, but it was arranged that after the police release it, it will head back to the mothership to be preserved. Bottom pick is from my first edition of American Sniper, that Chris signed Just a couple months before his murder. In this special edition 1911 it comes with a printing of the book. It would be amazing to get Taya’s signature in it. This one has never been shot, and it is such a safe queen that the slide has only been racked once after I got it from the factory. Debated to shoot it or not
Anchorsaweigh
Elite
How about a baby 1911? This 1983 Gov't Model in .380. New to me yesterday...
Dobbinsky
Custom
Very nice, and NO idiot mark! Those are getting more and more spendy. How well does it feed?
Anchorsaweigh
Elite
Feeds both ball and hollow points effortlessly.
Dobbinsky
Custom
Looks like yours was made between 1985 and 1986.
Anchorsaweigh
Elite
Actually, 1983 according to Colt.
Dobbinsky
Custom
That's even better. Wasn't that the first year for your gun?
Ya hear that voice? It's begging, pleading for you to put a box of 230gr ball ammo through it. Heed the call!I've shown it before, but ya'll just need to see it again. It's been in hibernation, so I had to bring her out and give her a rub down.One of these days, I'll get the cajones to shoot it.
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Anchorsaweigh
Elite
I believe you are correct!
Yeah, I took it to the range Saturday night. They basically deleted felt recoil. At first, I thought the gun was broken. The XP Pro was already soft shooting...the Comp is crazy soft.
Man, that hard chrome looks nice. I went black this time around...I think I should've stuck with chrome, though.
Wow! Ok, tell us about it!
It's the latest iteration of the Alpha Foxtrot AF-1911-S15 and is called the Attila. It's similar to the Wilson doublestack 1911s - solid one-piece frames with integrated grips.
It is an Officer-sized double-stacked 1911. It's chambered in 9mm and has an aluminum frame. It has an integral comp, is chambered in 9mm, comes with two optics plates (RMR and RMSC).
I've both the S15 and the Attila. Both shoot very well. Felt recoil is minimal with the S15. The Attila is similar but a bit better because the comp negates felt recoil, too. I can shoot them fast and still be accurate. I'd be lying if I said they shoot as flat as a larger gun. They don't, because they don't have the same mass as a larger all-steel 1911, but for that size of gun, you're probably not going to see many other 9mm guns shooting as flat as these. The front and back strap checkering helps control the gun and the Attila's grip side texturing is a bit more aggressive than the S15's - it adds additional controllability to the gun. So, all that results in the Attila shooting somewhat better than the S15.
The lack of grip panels on this gun makes it thinner than an actual 1911 (that's not an exaggeration). Both it and the S15 conceal extremely well.
The gun can hold 15+1. It comes with one Shield Arms S15 magazine. It'll use any G48-pattern mags (Glock or otherwise - PSA Dagger Micro mags work with it, too).
Trigger measured at 2 lb 15 oz (avg of 5 pulls).
To design the gun around Glock Slimline mags, compromises had to be made - I'm speaking mainly of the S15, but as the Attila is using the S15 as a base, the Attila will have the same compromises. The gun uses proprietary parts by necessity. The trigger bow is proprietary, as is the mainspring housing, the grip safety, and the slide lock. The ignition parts are 1911-pattern, though.
The S15 has a decent amount of MIM and I suspect the Attila does, as well, but I haven't yet detail stripped the Attila.
It's not yet for sale on the Alpha Foxtrot, but the distributors are selling it as of last week. The S15 currently MSRPs for $1300. I bought mine 3 years ago for $1500. I'm not sure what the Attila's MSRP is (that's not listed on the manufacturer's site), but I bought mine at $999. It's a LOT of gun for that price.
I shot it this weekend. It's fast. Really fast. I was able to drill a small target at 10 yard, quick shots, with irons. All shots hit the paper. While I expected good accuracy, I didn't expect to be super accurate at the pace I shot, at that distance. I wasn't quite that good doing the same thing with the S15. Maybe it is the comp.
I plan to test this gun to 1000 rounds, just to see how well it does. I did the same with the S15 and it fared well - it's on its way to 2000 rounds...I'd shoot it more but I also shoot other guns.
AF has been making making 1911s a while. They've a large facility (full of tooling) in Duluth, GA. They also make Glock and AR variants. Their parent company is Dasan Industries, a South Korean company. Dasan is large, as well and are a global OEM firearms parts manufacturer. Dasan has been around 30+ years. I mention all this because most folks think that Dasan is making the guns for Alpha Foxtrot, in Korea, and then having the guns shipped to the US, but the guns are made here (otherwise the Duluth facility would be redundant).
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