Now, we are told that Kimbers and others use slides and frames made by Smith and Wesson and that Wilson uses Caspian frames, etc.These things seem to change more now than they did a decade ago.Īll I can tell you is that in my experience the Caspian frames and slides used by AO back in the late 80s and early 90s were incredibly sturdy. After the Kahr takeover, I cant honestly tell you who makes what component, and notice that this is an industry wide thing.Īt one time, Kimbers, Wilsons and others used frames and slides made by Kimber. 45 I bought was a Springfield, not a Colt or Kimber.įact is, through most of its history up till the purchase by the folks who own Kahr arms the AOs utilized slides and frames from Caspian. Of course, the Springfield has come a long way, and the last. In fact, and this pains me to say it, I ahve handled a LOT more Colt lemons than AO lemons, but then again, Colt produced a lot more pistols overall, so that probably balances itself out.Ī friend of mine who was an importer told me back in the late 80s that the AO pistols at that time were generally nicer than Springfields. My conclusion is that overall the Colts had better fitting and finishing and were a tad smoother, but that the AO pistols generally had the same level of performance in terms of being good shooters. I have also handled and shot many Colt pistols. The first series used Springfield Armory parts, by the way. However there were a few reviews of AO pistols, most noticibly when the second series of GSPs came out. Notice that them what can afford a lot of advertizing has thier wares on the cover and them what can't don't. Gun magazines are ran the same way your local newspapers are ran. The AO got little notice in the gun magazines for one basic reason, that had nothing to do with the quality of the pieces themselves. Later, another gunwriter did a review of the pistols and he pointed out that the frames and slides were machined by Caspian from investment castings from Spain. If I remember correctly Gary Paul Johnson did a review on the AO GSP for Combat Handguns magazine and he may have been the first gunwriter to notice that the slides and frames were Caspians. The second batch of Gunsite Sevice Pistols used Auto Ordnance guns as the base platforms. The facts are what the facts are, and they can be verified by a little research. It realy doesnt matter what anybody thinks.
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