I’m very intrigued…I’ll be interested to hear how it compares to your others!
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Finally! SA-35 UPDATE: Range Report
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I've known I had to have one of these from the first moment I heard of them. Been looking hard for over year and nobody has had any one in my area. 
This morning I called all the LGSs and still no luck. But a guy on thee Tennessee Gun Owners forum posted a couple of days ago that he had seen one at Cypress Creek Outdoors in Dyersburg. That's about 75 miles from me. So just on a whim I called to see if it was still there. It WAS!
With nothing better to do on a Saturday afternoon, I jumped in my truck and headed North.
I'm now the proud owner of a brand spankin' new Springfield Armory SA-35! BTW: price was MSRP at $699.
Not being a fan of heavily checkered grips, I put a nice set of smooth Houge Pau Ferros on it. Looks great!
I hope to get it to the range next week. Range report to follow.
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And here's an updated family portrait.
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This morning I called all the LGSs and still no luck. But a guy on thee Tennessee Gun Owners forum posted a couple of days ago that he had seen one at Cypress Creek Outdoors in Dyersburg. That's about 75 miles from me. So just on a whim I called to see if it was still there. It WAS!
With nothing better to do on a Saturday afternoon, I jumped in my truck and headed North.
I'm now the proud owner of a brand spankin' new Springfield Armory SA-35!
BTW: price was MSRP at $699.Not being a fan of heavily checkered grips, I put a nice set of smooth Houge Pau Ferros on it. Looks great!
I hope to get it to the range next week. Range report to follow.
And here's an updated family portrait.
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Range Report :
Disclaimer: I'm old and not in the best of health. So don't expect precision shooting.
I got it to the range today. Beautiful day. temps in the mid-70s and a light breeze. I decided that rather than just stand there and punch holes in paper that I'd take it to the action range. There I could draw from the holster, shoot steel and move around. Give it a good workout.
Here's the range bay as I set it up. 9 targets ranging from 10 to 25 yards.
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Ammo was mix of what I had on hand.
Winchester White Box 115 & 124 gr FMJ
Remington Golden Sabre 124 gr.
Handload 124 gr LRN
Handload 124 gr plated FP.
All told I put about 300 rounds through the gun.
Overall, I'm very pleased with the gun. Its no tack driver, but plenty combat accurate. The trigger is a bit heavy, but Hi-Powers generally are. It is quite smooth though.
The sights are excellent. They give a well defined sight picture and are easy to pick up.
I really love the shape of the thumb safety. Positive clicks on and off, big enough to easily work, but not so big as to be bulky. Springfield hit a home run with this design.
I did have three malfunctions. To failure to fully eject and one feed ramp jam. All of these were with my reloads, so I suspect it was the ammo at fault.
Generally I started from the draw and just ran the targets until the mag was empty. The steel was easy at all ranges, just couldn't miss. I got good A & B zone hits on the silhouettes at all distances Although they were scattered about a bit. Here's the paper target which was at 10 yards Bear in mind that this was with several types of ammo. It does seem that I need to adjust the rear sight slightly right.
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I also manged to chase an empty Dr. pepper bottle around the range a bit.
Conclusion: Its a Hi-Power with all the desired upgrades. I like it!
Disclaimer: I'm old and not in the best of health. So don't expect precision shooting.
I got it to the range today. Beautiful day. temps in the mid-70s and a light breeze. I decided that rather than just stand there and punch holes in paper that I'd take it to the action range. There I could draw from the holster, shoot steel and move around. Give it a good workout.
Here's the range bay as I set it up. 9 targets ranging from 10 to 25 yards.
Ammo was mix of what I had on hand.
Winchester White Box 115 & 124 gr FMJ
Remington Golden Sabre 124 gr.
Handload 124 gr LRN
Handload 124 gr plated FP.
All told I put about 300 rounds through the gun.
Overall, I'm very pleased with the gun. Its no tack driver, but plenty combat accurate. The trigger is a bit heavy, but Hi-Powers generally are. It is quite smooth though.
The sights are excellent. They give a well defined sight picture and are easy to pick up.
I really love the shape of the thumb safety. Positive clicks on and off, big enough to easily work, but not so big as to be bulky. Springfield hit a home run with this design.
I did have three malfunctions. To failure to fully eject and one feed ramp jam. All of these were with my reloads, so I suspect it was the ammo at fault.
Generally I started from the draw and just ran the targets until the mag was empty. The steel was easy at all ranges, just couldn't miss. I got good A & B zone hits on the silhouettes at all distances Although they were scattered about a bit. Here's the paper target which was at 10 yards Bear in mind that this was with several types of ammo. It does seem that I need to adjust the rear sight slightly right.
I also manged to chase an empty Dr. pepper bottle around the range a bit.
Conclusion: Its a Hi-Power with all the desired upgrades. I like it!
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