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    CUSTOM IS AS CUSTOM DOES

    Mar 01, 2022 6 minutes
    PATRICK SWEENEY

    This gun is perhaps one of a kind. It certainly has a unique build history.

    We like to think of custom as bespoke, purpose-made dream guns, if you will. However, this one just sort of happened.

    A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away, I was a serious and persistent competition shooter. Each year, I’d shoot at least two club matches a month, the Second Chance Pin Shoot, a couple (or more) USPSA Nationals and The Steel Challenge. I was shooting a lot, and I was winning a lot. One of the prizes (I think from a USPSA Nationals) was a certificate good for a hi-cap frame from SVI/Infinity.

    Well, I already had a slew of hi-cap frames. So, I put on my best smiley-face, good-guy, serious competitor look and asked the Infinity guys if they could, pretty please, do it as a single stack. In .40 caliber. Because at the time the Single Stack Nationals was getting spun up into being as a

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