Lowering the hammer on a 1911
Lowering the hammer on a 1911 and the press check. It is not hard as long as you know the correct method. Be sure your pistol is unloaded before you…
Lowering the hammer on a 1911 and the press check. It is not hard as long as you know the correct method. Be sure your pistol is unloaded before you…
Ballistic test .45 Auto pistol vs carbine. A few years ago I published the differences in 9mm Luger ammunition performance when fired from a pistol and carbine. You can read…
How to detail strip a 1911 Hunter and I decided to do a slower detail strip tutorial after complaints of the no-tool strip demo being a little too fast to…
I was teaching a pistol class the other night and we were going over flash sight picture, double taps, target transition, and some more intermediate skills and drills. It was…
Colt Mfg 2016 previews new firearms at Gunsite. It was October 2015 and I got a phone call from my friends at Colt. They were doing something a little different…
This question pops up from time to time, and the explanations are as varied as both types of guns. For a long time, I stuck to the technical aspects, but…
Lessening recoil with Reduced Radius Firing Pin Stop for 1911 A few years back, I addressed a problem that a guy on on a gun forum was having with an…
Just recently, a flurry of sudden interest has emerged due to my sending a test magazine to a member in hopes of addressing his recurrent 3-Point Jam/Failure to go to…
1911 Observations: Then and Now There are two basic problems with the 1911 pistol. One is that it’s been around for so long, a lot has been lost in the…
1911Headspace Over the years, I’ve had more than a few heated discussions over headspace in the 1911 and other autopistols that headspace on the case mouth…but since this is a…