Gun Stuff! How your 1911 functions...(animation)

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[Chasaway]

This may be old to most of you, but I just happened on it today.

Your 1911 at play

Great animation of how 1911-style pistols function. Play around with the check boxes below the pistol and watch the internal workings of a 1911 as it cycles through.

Interesting stuff.

For me, anyway.

[Chasaway]

Hope you have fun with it!

[Chasaway]

And another...of my "little frien'"

My Kel Tec PF-9

[mountainlion]

I seldom fire my 1911 because I don’t like to bend over and pick up brass. 45 Colt is good. S&W 357 is good. I would prefer the 1911 to fight my way to something bigger.

[aimhigh]

I love my SA 1911 EMP.

[NoControllingLegalAuthority]

The animation doesn't show the round jamming at the forcing cone as my Colt did before I got fed up and got rid of it. The 1911's are notorious for being picky about ammunition used in them.

Buy a Springfield Armory XD-45. They function flawlessly with ANY kind of ammo, including hand loads.

[Chasaway]

I OWN an XD-SubCompact in .40. It’s a terrific pistol!

But my Rock Island 1911 is still my favorite. It eats everything I’ve fed it so far; and it makes a ragged hole out of the middle ring at 10 yards...

It’s also a lot of fun to customize, change and just generally pretty up.

Not arguing with you...just a different POV.

Chasaway

[Glennb51]

My Colts and Kimbers have never failed to feed. In fact, when I buy a new pistol, I take a handful of misc. ammo with different weight and types of bullets, load the mags to capacity, and fire. If there are any jams the weapon is replaced.

[Red in Blue PA]

Both of my Kimbers have never failed to feed with any ammo I have used.

FWIW, there may be a longer break-in period with 1911’s, but IMO, there is no better gun to have on your hip.

[Tainan]

Or one could always spend a little time setting in a chair, have a cool iced tea and use some very fine grit paper to polish the feed ramp and the barrel entrance to a nice shiny slick countenance. Thats worked wel for me for the last 35 yrs or so.

But its more fun to complain about things.

[Shooter 2.5]

Any owner of a mechanical device owes it to themselves to understand why things go wrong. The early 1911’s had a very narrow ramp that has to be widened to accept anything other than hardball. It took an a WWII era Remington Rand to a gunsmith I used to work with and after he returned it, the pistol would chamber empty brass.

Forcing cones are the lead angle on the barrel of a revolver.

[smokingfrog]

[Tijeras_Slim]

MOAKB!

(Mother of all Ka Booms!)