I bought these rifles some time ago, and just had Ron Conti (Grouse Point Gunworks) restore their original splendor. They are in 243 Win and 257 AI. Alpha made the nicest-handling Sporters I've ever felt; slender grips, well-balanced, compact. A pair of Zeiss 3x9 scopes and they'll be ready to go!

Nice rifles Biebs. Are those tricked out Remy 700 actions?

They're a proprietary action. The company was in Flower Mound Texas in the late 80s, early 90s. Their rifles were built to order, and from what I read, were highly thought of for fit, function, and finish. They just feel so "right" when you handle them.

Bought one of the receivers many yrs ago from a former employee. Built a glass stock 6X284 out of it.

I have a pair of Alphas also, in .25-284 and .284, neither shot that much so still mint with original brochures and instructions. Got them out of the President's personal collection about 1989 after the company failed. The .284 is one of two built with circassin stocks, and the only one built with open sights (still unfiled).

Are there more out there?

I had a chance at a left handed 284 at one time...still kick myself for not buying it!

Ed

Steve Barnett's has one, or did recently. He was selling it for $3,500. Yikes! I'd sell both of mine for that $$$.

Wow! is right. I think I got $600 for mine and I was happy.

Butch, I guess it's like buying a Colt SAA in 1922. Buy it for $25 in 1922, and sell it now for $5,000 :-)

Yeah, I did buy mine in about 1992. You would have loved it. The stock painter was in Washington state. He painted it like a piece of granite with a crack in it. It shot ok, but didn't feed. I just never found any love for it.

Sounds like another bolt-together garage "gunsmith".

Actually he ran their gunsmithing shop. I'm just repeating what he told me. He said he took several receivers for unpaid salary. He had his gunshop on Garland Rd just off of Jupiter in Dallas, Texas. And no he is not in business anymore unless he relocated. I was a neophyte at this time, so forgive my ignorance.

Don't you hate it when a "gunsmith" puts a rifle together, but never checks for feed, ejection, and the actual function of the rifle? That's what I meant by "garage gunsmith"...lots of them out there. With the components, it sounds like the makings of a great rifle.

Well as this one was built, he said the receiver and follower were for the 284 cartridge. Another barreled it, and another stocked it. I learned a lot on it.

Just an observation: The overall lines on these stocks really ain't too bad.

Now...If only we could get rid of the flower de lilly checkering......

World wide, the British seem to be the only ones that never bought into that "style"

And...I plead guilty to my share.

Yes, that's probably a bit of a holdover from the "Glamor" days of rifle building, as dramatized by the likes of Roy Weatherby, Wichita Arms, Harry Lawson, Pachmyer, and others. Fortunately these rifles escaped the flared pistol grips, reverse-taper forend tips, and huge roll-over cheekpieces of the 60s-70s, with the ribbon checkering a remaining vestige of the "more is better" age of rifles :-)