Posts Tagged ‘M1911’

To Glock or Not To Glock, That Is The Question

Thursday, August 23rd, 2012

I got my CHL in the mail today. (When I have time I’ll try to do a post on the process of getting one for those who haven’t.) I currently have a Kimber .45, which I think is a bit heavy to use as a carry gun.

My instructor was big on the Glock, which I know a lot of people use as a carry gun and has some improvements over the M1911. So I thought I would ask my CHL-holding rreaders: 1. What concealed carry gun do you favor, and why, and 2. What experience (if any) have you had using a Glock?

And speaking of CHL classes, here’s Karl Rehn of KRTraining on what to bring to class to make your instructor happy.

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Bullettime (Guns Firing in Slow Motion)

Friday, February 4th, 2011

With snow and ice here in Austin, it’s been a bit of slow day. And what better for a slow day than some slow-motion gun porn?

I chanced across one of these researching information on the Lugar for a story I’m writing, and thought it provided a nice view of the Lugar’s feed and ejection mechanism, giving viewers a chance to see how it differs from the M1911’s mechanism for accomplishing the same thing. So I concentrated on videos that show mechanism cycling rather than bullet impact.

(None of these are my videos, I collected them off of YouTube, so I can’t take any credit (or any blame for the musical choices).)

The Lugar:

Here’s a M1911 Commander 45:

Here’s a cutaway animation of how an M1911 works:

Sig Sauer 22 and 9mm

Here’s real slow motion of an M16 and an M1911:

A Tanfoglio Gold Team (not sure the caliber, but similar vidoes have been for .38 Super):

Here’s a Thompson submachine gun (one of which I fired once upon a time):

A whole bunch of different guns:

Finally, here’s a dad teaching his son to fire a gun for the first time. His three year old son. On a minigun. BEST DAD EVER!

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A Centennial Worth Celebrating

Saturday, January 1st, 2011

This year is the hundredth anniversary of John Moses Browning’s Colt M1911 automatic pistol, the basis of pretty much every automatic handgun. The design is so successful that, to the untrained eye, a .45 automatic manufactured today will look very much the original 1911. Here, for example is my own Kimber .45, purchased in the mid-1990s:

Compare this to the original M1911, and the even closer (and only slightly revised) M1911A from 1926:

The M1911 deign has really stood the test of time. You’d be hard-pressed to find a device of similar complexity still in common use today that hasn’t undergone radical modification. Hats off to the far-sighted shade of John Moses Browning.

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