Welcome to in the present day’s Photograph of the Day! Right here we’ve a really distinctive rifle cartridge firing handgun. That is the Springfield Armory Single Shot 1911-A2 in any other case often known as the 1911-A2 SASS. These pistols got here into the larger image within the late Nineteen Eighties and had been the brainchild of then-Springfield Armory CEO Bob Reese. Bob Reese had been tinkering with this particular thought for a very long time and his purpose was to supply a extra reasonably priced different to the Thompson Middle Contender single-shot pistol which was able to firing a complete host of cartridges. This 1911-A2 SASS was principally a normal 1911 body retrofitted with a complete new single shot higher and a modified journal. They had been made in a ten.25” barrel and a 14.9” barrel. An entire host of chamberings had been additionally obtainable starting from 22lr all the way in which as much as .358 Win.
Sort: Pistol
Gauge: 308
Barrel: 15 inch spherical
End: blue/parkerized
Grip: plastic
Lot 776: Norinco/Springfield Armory Mannequin 1911-A2 Sass Pistol. (n.d.). Rock Island Public sale Firm. {photograph}. Retrieved July 25, 2022, from https://www.rockislandauction.com/element/2032/776/norincospringfield-armory-model-1911a2-sass-pistol.
