I think I've mentioned this gun before. Only tonight I discovered that I had retained a pre-digital camera image of it. Not a very good one, I'm afraid. SAI Model 1911-A1 Linkless in .40 S&W. SN: NM100767
I bought this gun in 2002 one time on a whim, I wasn't looking for anything like it. My records show I paid $375 for it. This was a good shooting gun. The thing I didn't like about it was, it had a factory defect in the barrel. Which consisted of a small ding, but you could see a corresponding small inset from the ding in one of the grooves. Which didn't seem to make any difference in pistol accuracy. I probably would've kept the gun longer except for this nagging issue that I'd overlooked when I bought it. So when I got a chance to cash out of it even money, I did.
Only many years later did I discover that this was a fairly rare piece. As the name on the forward end of the slide implies, these guns didn't have the 1911 Browning barrel link design. They had a cam machined on the barrel, not a link. Which going by memory from what I've read, they didn't make many because they got in legal trouble with the German maker of the Omega pistol for patent infringement. So the SAI linkless was discontinued. They were made in 10mm Auto and .40 S&W, with the latter being the more uncommon. Maybe made in .45 ACP but I've never read about any such.
I bought this gun in 2002 one time on a whim, I wasn't looking for anything like it. My records show I paid $375 for it. This was a good shooting gun. The thing I didn't like about it was, it had a factory defect in the barrel. Which consisted of a small ding, but you could see a corresponding small inset from the ding in one of the grooves. Which didn't seem to make any difference in pistol accuracy. I probably would've kept the gun longer except for this nagging issue that I'd overlooked when I bought it. So when I got a chance to cash out of it even money, I did.
Only many years later did I discover that this was a fairly rare piece. As the name on the forward end of the slide implies, these guns didn't have the 1911 Browning barrel link design. They had a cam machined on the barrel, not a link. Which going by memory from what I've read, they didn't make many because they got in legal trouble with the German maker of the Omega pistol for patent infringement. So the SAI linkless was discontinued. They were made in 10mm Auto and .40 S&W, with the latter being the more uncommon. Maybe made in .45 ACP but I've never read about any such.
