Howdy Ags, I am in College Station, and I have decided to do the unthinkable, and sell one of my crown jewels.
I apologize for the narrative preceding my getting to the point, but details are important in this case
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South African friends Paul Liebenberg and Claudio Salassa came to America in the late 1980s and revolutionized custom pistol builds. Paul went to the S&W Custom Shop in FL, where he helped develop the .40 S&W handgun following the FBI's move to the S&W Model 1006, 10mm service pistol, which proved too much recoil. Following his stint there, he opened Pistol Dynamics, and began custom making both competition and carry guns, with extremely innovative designs such as compensators (not porting, actual race gun style comps) on carry guns. Paul is a member of the American Pistolsmith Guild. Claudio went to Briley Mfg in Houston, where he developed the spherical bushing system and became a parts manufacturer for S&W and other custom builders, and built some of the finest Steel Plate Challenge and IPSC guns ever made, long before Matt McLearn, Brazos Pistols, Staccato and Infinity existed. The two of them worked on the design of the Carry Comp I am selling, however this was the very last hand-built Carry Comp that Claudio ever built. When I went to work for him as a pistolsmith in 1995 he sold it to me. After a hiatus of about 5 years, Claudio began making the Carry Comp as a production gun, missing many of the amazing hand fitting and handwork this gun has.
Here is the list of what the gun is made from:
1) Caspian Govt length slide, cut down so that WITH the compensator, the gun is the exact length of a std. Govt 1911.
2) Les Baer 1911 frame
3) Welded-on mag well designed and made by Claudio and also used by Pistol Dynamics/Paul Liebenberg
4) Back of the slide is hand checkered 30 lpi to eliminate glare
5) Trigger guard cut off, replaced with a square one, hand checkered 30 lpi
6) Ed Brown Memory-Groove grip Safety
7) Ed Brown Ambi tactical thumb safety
8) Briley stainless match barrel, with threaded on 2 port steel compensator
9) Front strap checkered at 20 lpi, with a massive relief cut under the trigger guard to allow your hand to sit higher on the grip, thus controlling recoil.
10 Bo-Mar Low-Mount fully adjustable rear sight. Front sight has been checkered to eliminate glare.
11) Full-length anodized aluminum guide rod and stainless reverse plug
12) Titanium firing pin
13 Wolff springs throughout
14) Flat mainspring housing. checkered 30 lpi
15) Front and rear cocking serrations on the slide
16) Lightening cuts on the slide (To allow faster cycling. Slide weighs less than a Commander slide)
17) (2) Chip McCormick 8rd mags
18) STI Hammer, Sear, and Disconnector, trigger pull set to 2.5lbs
19) Extended slide release
20) Lowered and flared ejection port
This is the best you can build a carry pistol. When you pick it up, if feels like only a perfectly balanced 1911 single stack can--it is the way I wish every 2011 Staccato felt. This is the originator, from which Staccato later copied several design innovations from.
To have ANY good pistolsmith build this gun, including Paul, would be $6500. There is SO much work in this gun, and it shows. It is accurate, and you can dump and entire mag into a pie-plate sized target at 10 yards without coming off the target.
The gun has approximately 600 rounds through it. It looks perfect--not a mark on it.
I would like $3900 for the gun. Consider that a Staccato production gun is $4200, with a single port comp. This gun is beautiful and classy, and carries just like a std. government length 1911.
I live in South College Station. I was the gunsmith for Mike and Katy Stulce at Champion Firearms when I was in graduate school in 1999-2001. And because I know someone will ask, I am selling it because my son could not possibly give a crap less about the gun, and I would rather it go to someone who will appreciate what it is, maybe put it to work, maybe show it off to friends, not let it sit in a safe for another 25 years. And the money will go toward his graduate school after he graduates next May from TAMU.
Please, contact me if you are serious and would like to talk about it and/or look at it. Buy it before I change my mind-I know the seller's regret is coming...
columbaire@gmail.com
I apologize for the narrative preceding my getting to the point, but details are important in this case
.
South African friends Paul Liebenberg and Claudio Salassa came to America in the late 1980s and revolutionized custom pistol builds. Paul went to the S&W Custom Shop in FL, where he helped develop the .40 S&W handgun following the FBI's move to the S&W Model 1006, 10mm service pistol, which proved too much recoil. Following his stint there, he opened Pistol Dynamics, and began custom making both competition and carry guns, with extremely innovative designs such as compensators (not porting, actual race gun style comps) on carry guns. Paul is a member of the American Pistolsmith Guild. Claudio went to Briley Mfg in Houston, where he developed the spherical bushing system and became a parts manufacturer for S&W and other custom builders, and built some of the finest Steel Plate Challenge and IPSC guns ever made, long before Matt McLearn, Brazos Pistols, Staccato and Infinity existed. The two of them worked on the design of the Carry Comp I am selling, however this was the very last hand-built Carry Comp that Claudio ever built. When I went to work for him as a pistolsmith in 1995 he sold it to me. After a hiatus of about 5 years, Claudio began making the Carry Comp as a production gun, missing many of the amazing hand fitting and handwork this gun has.
Here is the list of what the gun is made from:
1) Caspian Govt length slide, cut down so that WITH the compensator, the gun is the exact length of a std. Govt 1911.
2) Les Baer 1911 frame
3) Welded-on mag well designed and made by Claudio and also used by Pistol Dynamics/Paul Liebenberg
4) Back of the slide is hand checkered 30 lpi to eliminate glare
5) Trigger guard cut off, replaced with a square one, hand checkered 30 lpi
6) Ed Brown Memory-Groove grip Safety
7) Ed Brown Ambi tactical thumb safety
8) Briley stainless match barrel, with threaded on 2 port steel compensator
9) Front strap checkered at 20 lpi, with a massive relief cut under the trigger guard to allow your hand to sit higher on the grip, thus controlling recoil.
10 Bo-Mar Low-Mount fully adjustable rear sight. Front sight has been checkered to eliminate glare.
11) Full-length anodized aluminum guide rod and stainless reverse plug
12) Titanium firing pin
13 Wolff springs throughout
14) Flat mainspring housing. checkered 30 lpi
15) Front and rear cocking serrations on the slide
16) Lightening cuts on the slide (To allow faster cycling. Slide weighs less than a Commander slide)
17) (2) Chip McCormick 8rd mags
18) STI Hammer, Sear, and Disconnector, trigger pull set to 2.5lbs
19) Extended slide release
20) Lowered and flared ejection port
This is the best you can build a carry pistol. When you pick it up, if feels like only a perfectly balanced 1911 single stack can--it is the way I wish every 2011 Staccato felt. This is the originator, from which Staccato later copied several design innovations from.
To have ANY good pistolsmith build this gun, including Paul, would be $6500. There is SO much work in this gun, and it shows. It is accurate, and you can dump and entire mag into a pie-plate sized target at 10 yards without coming off the target.
The gun has approximately 600 rounds through it. It looks perfect--not a mark on it.
I would like $3900 for the gun. Consider that a Staccato production gun is $4200, with a single port comp. This gun is beautiful and classy, and carries just like a std. government length 1911.
I live in South College Station. I was the gunsmith for Mike and Katy Stulce at Champion Firearms when I was in graduate school in 1999-2001. And because I know someone will ask, I am selling it because my son could not possibly give a crap less about the gun, and I would rather it go to someone who will appreciate what it is, maybe put it to work, maybe show it off to friends, not let it sit in a safe for another 25 years. And the money will go toward his graduate school after he graduates next May from TAMU.
Please, contact me if you are serious and would like to talk about it and/or look at it. Buy it before I change my mind-I know the seller's regret is coming...
columbaire@gmail.com