Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Handguns Sokolovsky .45 - anyone familiar with them?

I recall as a boy, going to a SHOT show (early 80s I believe in Dallas or Houston), and talking to the man who made these....as I recall the then price was 1-2k, seen one asking 100K. Only known to have made 50 or less. It was a beautiful work of art I must say, and if memory serves me it was fairly hefty.

Thought I'd check if a few of you pistol aficionados knew much about them. Notice lack of screws, controls, etc.

http://www.nramuseum.org/guns/the-galleries/innovation,-oddities-and-competition/case-22-the-weird-and-the-wonderful/sokolovsky-45-automaster-semi-auto-pistols.aspx

https://www.facebook.com/WilliamsPatriotLounge/posts/618812388130824

https://pistolsmith.com/classifieds/35703-sokolovsky-45-automaster-sale.html

I would go to The High Road forums and ask fellow that goes by screen name bc1023. His specialty are very high end sometimes few of the kind pistols: Pardini, Korriphila, Korth,....... I would be very surprised if he did not offer you first hand info on this make.

Thanks.

I was just curious if any of you were familiar with it. Seems one of the major gun magazines featured an article on it long ago.

Interesting and very good looking gun.

Seeing as these have pretty much been handled with kid gloves it kind of begs the question, "What happened to the magazine with this one?"


http://d3ia9zxjpr3039.cloudfront.ne...568/02077_d6.jpg&class=imageFullSize

Thinking that is a prototype in the rough....being that the mag would normally be hidden. A few are in museums....I bet this is #1.......I doubt #3 - 50 would look like that but who knows. That sure begs what happened indeed !