Sorry: it's been a while since I've posted: family health problems, work stuff, etc.
STI International, Inc.
As I understand it, Dave Skinner -- the currenly listed President and CEO of STI, has or will shortly be retiring.
I'm also told that this should have little or no effect on the quality of their products, the direction of the Company or any such things.
RE: People meeting/talking to Virgil Tripp and others.
I really don't care in the least about Hollywood or other celebrities, the Kardashians (whoever they are or why we are allegedly supposed to 'keep up with them'), but I have to admit to the sin of envy when hearing of the conversations people have had with individuals like Mr. Tripp. For me, this would be equivalent to accidentally encountering a Nobel Prize winner in physics at the Baskin-Robbins store, and just chatting for a while...
PS: have had the new ATI/APW pistol out to the range to sight it in, after prelimary sighting by using a laser boresight.
Short review: this gun is much, much better than I am, and perhaps might hope to be. Read reviews by people who know a lot more than I do -- I can only report personal experience.
It's perhaps as tight, well-designed and finely-machined as my Rohrbaugh, and just as much sheer pleasure to shoot. The .45 recoil using MagTech 230gr FMJ rounds is easy, even for an old guy with not such great upper-arm strength and old, broken finger bones on the strong hand.
Accuracy? Seeming limited by the shooter. With a sandbag rest at 25 feet, I can do 1-inch groups easily -- surely can be bettered better if done by better shooters, and using match-grade ammunition.
VOW: I will NEVER sell this gun
RECOMMENDATION: buy anything you fancy made by STI, but have Bob Cogan 'finish' it -- not just cosmetically, but everything else also.
Thus endeth the opinions.
-- Bill
