Posted on 11/03/2015 7:47:07 AM PST by w1n1
limited magazine capacity
Para ordnance P14 fixed that.
“”All weapons have safeties”
Revelers don’t.”
Actually, the modern ones do. Since about 1991 (IU think) they have had hammer safeties so if they drop on their hammer they do not go off.
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I voted this morning [municipal/local elections] about 06h15. It was chilly enough that I wore a lined denim jacket.
My 1911 .45 [actually an Argentine M1927 .45] was under the jacket on one side [tanker's M3 shoulder holster] my khukuri knife inside the belt under the other side.
Nobody kept me from voting, or gave me any grief about who I was supporting.
Far more people have had unintended discharges with Glocks and have shot themselves or others than 1911 pistols have failed to fire and someone got hurt.
I sometimes carry a Sig...P230SL...which is a .380......Yeah fits my hand nicely....and my pocket.
I’ve got a 20 year old Rossi wheel gun....38 Special...that’s very reliable. Pull the trigger and it goes off.
Slim, I held my fiancee's satin nickel Commander up to the screen and moved it closer/farther to get the perspective right, and it appears to me that the slide and barrel are shorter than a Colt's. It looks more like stainless than satin nickel, the slide grooves are slanted and it's got a scalloped and *lowered* ejection port and *hollowed out* commander hammer.
My guess is that if we could see the other side, it'd say *Ruger*.
Could well be.
“...if it has a transfer bar.”
My only double action revolver experience has been with a Smith & Wesson, and they do have them. I guess I thought the all did.
“but something is going to happen every time you squeeze the trigger”
Not really. I’ve had a revolver jam because a primer was sticking out too far. They can also jam if dirt wedges in between the barrel and cylinder. Not common with most revolvers, but I have a 22 kit gun that USED to have about 0.002 cylinder gap, and it would jam often. It now has a 0.006 gap, and is much more reliable. I’ve had it for 35 years, so I obviously like it!
I like this gun! Which model Ruger?
My Smith & Wesson Model 28 .357 magnum does not have a transfer bar. The firing pin is attached directly to the hammer.
But the firing pin is prevented from striking unless the trigger is held all the way back, right? I had a 19 and a 29 that had that feature. There was a metal piece that was moved out of position to allow the firing pin to strike the primer. If the trigger wasn’t held back, the hammer could not strike the cartridge. Isn’t that a transfer bar? I’ll admit my knowledge in this area is quite limited.
Ah! Some quick research shows my terminology was wrong. I am thinking of something called a hammer block. Pardon my confusion.
Not to my knowledge...
I did a super slow mo on the video... It’s a custom gun from Accuracy X in Hardy, VA.
My advice is if you have to depend on one gun for your life, depend on the one you have the most training on. If you want to change that, train like hell, because under stress you're going to default to muscle memory (which is in the spine, not the muscles, but that's another conversation).
Any pistol round can kill someone, but the thing that's special about a .45 is that it doesn't only kill the person you shoot, it goes back in time and gets their grandmother and her pet cat too. Well, I heard that, anyway. Prove it ain't so. (Walks off, sulking...)
The stock CZ75 and 75B do not have a decocker. The 75BD does.
Don’t know if you have tried it, if not, it may be worth a couple bucks before sending it back.
Change out your recoil spring. Seems like such a simple thing many people overlook it.
The armorers course I went through recommends an 18 pound spring for Police Service use in a full sized 1911. I have had good luck with it. Wolff springs carries a full variety.
Had a buddy with a similar problem on an old 1911 he had - told him to try it and he was back in action
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