Sphinx 9mm AT2000 or 3000 Competition pistols?

lyle1

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Hello fellow CGN members. Do any of you own, or have tried shooting the full size AT2000 or 3000 Competition model, Sphinx
9mm pistols? I have heard great things about them and would like hear both positive and negative attributes of these pistols?
Yes, they are expensive, but it sounds like they are of very high quality....just curious......
 
Will follow with interest...browsed the web site....look like beautiful pistols, sadly never handled one....
 
The 2000 and 3000 are fine guns but are no longer in production. Finding one would not be easy and sourcing parts nearly impossible.
 
The same can be said regarding many firearms, including the much vaunted Colt Pythons......
True, though I bet you parts for the Python, as rare as they may be, are still easier to come by than those for Sphinx 2000/3000. After all, the Python was in production for nearly 50 years and was manufactured in far greater numbers. If you need something as minor as a recoil spring for a discontinued Sphinx, you are basically out of luck. But I'd still buy one as a collector piece.
 
From the small amount of research that I have done on these pistols, they will go 50,000 rounds without even changing the recoil spring....
 
Good guns, but had birthing problems. the first bunch, and I don't know how many, had screws that were not to spec, or perhaps were simply off the shelf screws unsuited for the use they were put to. The gun is similar to a 2011 in that the grip and the frame are two pieces. Difference being the screws that held the grip to the frame were different setups than the 1911. the screws broke often enough that people started welding the two pieces together. In the IPSC world permission was given to Production shooters to do this repair. This meant the gun could never come apart like it could with the screws. Later on new screws of the correct specs were sourced and given out to those who hadn't welded their guns.
They were phenomenally built, I would say taking the best design features of the CZ and the Tanfoglio and mating them together. I was not a fan of the safeties or slide stop as they seemed to be more about design than function. They were also very pricey, although in today's market of DA/SA Production guns probably not too far off the mark of others. Shooting wise, I wouldn't say they were any better than similar guns, outside of being really pretty inside.
 
Good guns, but had birthing problems. the first bunch, and I don't know how many, had screws that were not to spec, or perhaps were simply off the shelf screws unsuited for the use they were put to. The gun is similar to a 2011 in that the grip and the frame are two pieces. Difference being the screws that held the grip to the frame were different setups than the 1911. the screws broke often enough that people started welding the two pieces together. In the IPSC world permission was given to Production shooters to do this repair. This meant the gun could never come apart like it could with the screws. Later on new screws of the correct specs were sourced and given out to those who hadn't welded their guns.
They were phenomenally built, I would say taking the best design features of the CZ and the Tanfoglio and mating them together. I was not a fan of the safeties or slide stop as they seemed to be more about design than function. They were also very pricey, although in today's market of DA/SA Production guns probably not too far off the mark of others. Shooting wise, I wouldn't say they were any better than similar guns, outside of being really pretty inside.


Thank you for sharing your experiences with the Sphinx Pistols. I must say I am surprised, as I have never heard negative comments towards them.
I guess anything built by human hands can have failures.......
 
Here is a picture of the repair. It was apparently Titanium screws that were breaking and when possible they were replaced with stainless steel ones.post-2-1290629476.jpg
 

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