Alfa-Proj Revolvers reviews ?

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Sorry if this has been covered already ,but was wondering if anybody here has any experience or has heard/reviewed anything recently regarding the Alfa Project revolvers ? I was checking them out at Cabelas ,both the 9mm and 6" barrel .357mag. and they seem pretty solid and smooth for the price point.

When I asked the fellow about them, he didn`t know much ,as they just started selling them.

Thanks for your input.


Paul T
 
I have the 3561 which is the 6" 357mag/38spec. I have only taken it out to the range one but did enjoy it. Tried both the 357 and 38 rounds and had no problems.
Because of the length of the barrel it is a bit front heavy for me but that's a personal preference. I only shot at 10 meters and found the grouping good.

I replaced the grips with walnut and installed the Reduced Power Spring Tune Kit from Rusty Wood who is a sponsor CGN. The spring tune kit does reduce the DA trigger pull which helps. Both SA/DA on mine is smooth with no gritty feel to it. I found that after the round has been discharged and you start to release the trigger you must fully release the trigger to allow the cylinder to advance. If you don't your trigger with not move so if you wish to do rapid fire the trigger must be fully out before the revolver would be in battery.

Not a bad looking firearm for the price and have no regrets buying it.

Looking forward to other opinions.
 
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Hi!

I've been running a .357 6" For quite a few months. I've run approximately 4000 .38spl target loads and maybe 1000 moderate .357s through it. I never did bother changing out the spring or the grips, just cleaned it up, and ran it. Often it has been run by new people to the shooting sports, to no ill effect.

It's never given an ounce of problems, and shoots more accurately than I do. Quite often it has produced 2" groups at 20yards. It could probably do better, even if I can't. :D

The frame size is loosely equivalent to a S&W K-frame, and K-frame speed loaders do work. That being said for holsters, I have never found one that worked perfectly, Seeing as the Alfa has a full underlug, and K-frames did not. L-frame holsters work okay-ish, but are pretty sloppy in the frame/cylinder area. Standard .38/.357 speed-strips work excellently.

I would consider the stock trigger better than a GP100, but nowhere near as good as an old S&W. That being said, I don't mind a heavy trigger, as long as it's clean and smooth, and it is. While the double-action is heavy it's clean and predictable, and I've never had a light-strike even when running hard primers.

My main criticisms would be, first, the stock grips are way to small for normal or large hands, easily remedied, if I liked wood grips. My other complaint would be the short-ish ejector rod. Not a big issue if you're doing bulls-eye and target work, but in some of the run and gun games, especially when using .357's, the case is significantly longer than the stroke of the ejector, leading to incomplete ejection if you don't get a good 'hit' on the ejector rod. That being said, it's not Chief's Special short, but not Model 28 Long either. Kind of a little too pointy on the end too, can get a little irritating after a while.

All in all, I'm very happy with it. My interest lies in cheap guns and historical guns, so It's right up my alley. I initially wanted to see how much abuse it would take, and didn't even clean it for the first 2000 rounds beyond wiping off the cylinder face and forcing cone. The only thing that came up, around the 2000 round mark, the cylinder base pin gummed up to the point where it almost locked up. A proper cleaning, and it was back in service.

It's not a Smith, or a Colt, but the price is right, and it gets you in the door. Many times people have said, "For only X dollars more, you could get a used _______!" Yup. You can. Eventually. If you keep your eyes open. Or you could have a brand-new Alfa right now. (Well, as right now as the CFO allows....)
 
Thankyou gentlemen ,very useful information !

Thankyou both for the rustywood link, it will be useful in the near future !

Cheers

Paul T
 
Mine only has around 400 rounds through it but it's just getting better and better every time I take it out. Mine is the short barrelled 9mm version.

There are a bunch of detailed threads but I know the CGN default conditions for the Search function stop you from finding them. But you can fix that by going to "Advanced" then put in "alfa proj" as key words. And here's the trick, go to the options and change the "and newer" to "and older". As set the Search function only looks at stuff from the last week. Changing it to "and older" lets you go back and catch all the threads since the guns were introduced. Some good reading in them which is mostly positive.

If you do get one then the very first thing you will want to do once you're home is order the softer mainspring from Rusty Wood Trading. It turns a heavy trigger pull into something close to a tuned S&W as far as finger effort goes.
 
BCRider said:
Mine only has around 400 rounds through it but it's just getting better and better every time I take it out. Mine is the short barrelled 9mm version.

There are a bunch of detailed threads but I know the CGN default conditions for the Search function stop you from finding them. But you can fix that by going to "Advanced" then put in "alfa proj" as key words. And here's the trick, go to the options and change the "and newer" to "and older". As set the Search function only looks at stuff from the last week. Changing it to "and older" lets you go back and catch all the threads since the guns were introduced. Some good reading in them which is mostly positive.

If you do get one then the very first thing you will want to do once you're home is order the softer mainspring from Rusty Wood Trading. It turns a heavy trigger pull into something close to a tuned S&W as far as finger effort goes.
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Thankyou for that piece of information ,I thought there must have been at least one thread started about the AP revolvers.

As soon as I pay off a few Christmas bills ,a shopping I will go !

Cheers

Paul T
 
I was all set to buy about 2 dozen moonclips. That was quickly brought down to 8 then back up to 10 so that with the two it comes with I'd have a dozen. It was one very trembling hand which passed over so much folding stuff for that small and thin little bag of oily bits.....

BB, keep that date issue in mind for your next search. It'll trip you up every time. There's no board around which uses such silly default settings.
 
I have about 1,500 rounds through my 9261 6" 9mm revolver and still really liking it. Was even thinking about trying it for IPSC for fun, but I'll stick with production class for at least the first year. euxx was putting together a group buy for moon clips, I think it was ~$6 each. If you pm him, you may still be able to get in on the deal.
 
VanMan said:
I have about 1,500 rounds through my 9261 6" 9mm revolver and still really liking it. Was even thinking about trying it for IPSC for fun, but I'll stick with production class for at least the first year. euxx was putting together a group buy for moon clips, I think it was ~$6 each. If you pm him, you may still be able to get in on the deal.
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The 9mm looks interesting ,and a strong possibility.

Thanks for the moonclip intel.

Paul T
 
We've got the .22 revolver. Gf really likes it, but my opinion is the trigger is a very heavy pull for double-action. Otherwise a nice gun. Kind of feels a bit small for my big gorilla paws, though. I can only get three fingers on the handle.

Cannon
 
Anyone have issues with extraction in the 9mm?
Seems like every so often I get a case stuck in the cylinder and the whole moonclip won't budge
(Takes a lot if force at home to remove )
 
luke s said:
Anyone have issues with extraction in the 9mm?
Seems like every so often I get a case stuck in the cylinder and the whole moonclip won't budge
(Takes a lot if force at home to remove )
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Are any of your cases split when this happens? If it only happens occasionally then I'd blame it on the ammo. Switch to something different and move on. Or something to do with brass vs nickel casings? You don't say much about what sort of ammo it is you're using so it's hard to do more than offer generalities

I've had the odd time that a moonclip was a trifle sticky but it was generally due to me not pointing the gun up close enough to vertical and one or two casing mouths hang up as the group of casings was being pushed clear. At that point I had to give the gun a little shake or pull the cluster away. But it was just tipped to one side and holding by leverage. Not jammed by any means.
 
You know I think I figured it out.
The ammo is reloaded.
It sticks with federal cases that have the little crimp ring in the middle of the case, not using those again
 
I have a S&W 929. Chambers are much tighter than semi auto chambers.
Found range brass to be bulged mostly at the head/rim and needs to be undersized [small based] in order to feed and extract properly with moon clipped revolvers.
Even commercially reloaded ammo such as Wolf will still give me the occasional stiff reload, meaning not dropping into the cylinder easily.

I now just use new brass, reload it and keep it separate for the revolver.
 
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