MARS did an amazing job on both magwells of TRP-OP and TRS.
there’s got to be more MARS guns out there
Still waiting for mine to come back. 54 weeks and counting.
full build?
PS. knguye11, can you change your image hosting? The “me.com” popups are killing me
It has been 14 months and counting since I dropped off my Colt with MARS for the THUG package.
20 months and they should be completed in about 6 weeks, I can’t wait.
talked with steve the other day, he’s busting his ass. he got a little behind with moving his shop. But i know he’s going full bore to get guns out. I have 2 with him as well.
I waited 13 months for him to build my 01918 Axiom. Almost killed me to wait that long, and in the grand sceme of things it’s not as long as alot of the other top name custom smiths. Due to financial reasons, I was forced to sell my prized MARS Axiom (pictured in this thread) after only owning it for a few months :mad: At least I know it went to a good home.
Steve is such a great guy, he still contacts me regularly just to shoot the shit and see how things are going. Hopefully I will be able to have another pistol built by him some day.
I bought this Kimber in around 1997. It is one of the early ones. I shot a lot of rounds through it and it really needed help.
Steve from Mars Armament replaced all the internal parts and gave it a black ceracoat finish.
It shoots like a new gun. Well better than most new guns.
any more MARS guns in the wild?
Still waiting. 18 months and counting.
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Well, pics of my Axiom are on his FB page now to show off the frontstrap serrations, so shouldn’t be much longer!
sweet man, yours the chrome of the park’d one?
The parked one.
Still waiting 36 months for two Thugs and no response to calls or emails. Promised date was 6 months.
Holy shit dude, 3 years?
Yep. And a year ago they were about to ship so I paid in full, over 6k. Still waiting and can’t get a response.
Steve is a great guy and he does amazing work but… be prepared to wait and be very frustrated.
The work here is really nice, great looking 1911’s. But 3 years is crazy, especially when the guns were supposedly about to ship around 1 year ago, and you paid the full amount now up front as of a year ago and can’t even get an answer to what’s going on??
The guy is really good but kind of like an artist he’s not really what I would call an organized production manager. I really like him but I’m at the end of my rope.
Well, I certainly respect the creative process and the skills required to execute such fine detailing. But 3 years, 1 year after it was said to be near shipping, and not a word can be gotten? You’d think your pistols would be first in line to get done. And I can also understand if organization was a bit off and maybe it slipped being noticed for awhile, but you have made contact to remind about the project, so that shouldn’t be an issue. The no replies to being contacted is the major issue, I think. The rest I can understand, accidents happen, papers get misplaced, but it wouldn’t hurt to at least get an update when asked for one.
But I’m sure the guns will look really great when you get them. 