The Down Range Forum
Member Section => Handguns => Topic started by: TAB on April 22, 2009, 05:37:16 PM
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here is a very short video.
This is a colt 80 seirers combat comander, other then drifting the rear site, nothing has been done ot the gun( why I picked it) it has something like 15k rounds thru it
http://s110.photobucket.com/albums/n104/The_AnkLe_BiTeR/?action=view¤t=Picture047.flv
oh yeah, no comments about my gun handling skills, I was in a car wreck last year and still have very little gripe strength or dexteraty in my right hand.( its also why I have not been shooting very much)
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very pretty
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If all the safeties work it doesn't go bang until you depress the grip safety and the trigger. But no mechanical device can be counted on to work right 100% of the time.
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I'm pleased to see NO TOES were involved in the making of this film,.... ::)
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I'm pleased to see NO TOES were involved in the making of this film,.... ::)
HEY!
I resemble that remark!
;D
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I have a younger brother who is a state trooper. His first year out of the academy, he was full of himself (a side effect of any police academy I would guess) and carried a 1911 in a home made rig at the small of his back. He never set the thumb safety. Getting into his personal car one afternoon, the pistol discharged and left a severe burn down the crack of his ass, and a hole in the seat and floor of his new Mustang. He's carried a .38 in his pocket since then (about 21 years now).
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the pistol discharged and left a severe burn down the crack of his ass, and a hole in the seat and floor of his new Mustang.
Did his taint survive?? Cuz finding a replacement taint is NOT easy. Donors are difficult to find.
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I have a younger brother who is a state trooper. His first year out of the academy, he was full of himself (a side effect of any police academy I would guess) and carried a 1911 in a home made rig at the small of his back. He never set the thumb safety. Getting into his personal car one afternoon, the pistol discharged and left a severe burn down the crack of his ass, and a hole in the seat and floor of his new Mustang. He's carried a .38 in his pocket since then (about 21 years now).
I hope you got the brains in the family!!
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Did his taint survive?? Cuz finding a replacement taint is NOT easy. Donors are difficult to find.
He had kids after that, but was on a liquid diet for the better part of a month.
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Small of the back is the worst place to carry, period.
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As with anything mechanical, the safeties can and do fail. That is why I check both safeties every time I clean a 1911. That is how I found the grip safety on my carry gun had broken - not a pleasant feeling as I hadn't cleaned it recently so I have no idea how long it been broken. All in all, my personal preference is for a short trigger and two safeties that have to be disengaged over no safeties and a long trigger. I also will not carry a 1911 with an ambidextrous safety for fear that it would be easier to accidentally disengage. It is really a matter of practicing safe firearms handling no matter what you choose to carry. Be safe out there, people.
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CJ,
Glad your brother is alive to tell that story. This the third or fourth story like this I've run across which is why, every time I pick up my 1911 I do a quick function test.
Unloaded of course, run the grip safety check, disconnector check, trigger check, click test on the sear, thumb safety etc......takes about a minute to do them all, only then it's loaded, cocked & locked, holstered and out the door....
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My wife and kids think I am a nutter when it comes to checking whether a firearm is loaded or not. However I had my one and only ND with a wheelgun 15 years ago and I think I learned my lesson. I was dry firing my Colt Anaconda at my vest while it was hanging on the wall with an UNLOADED wheelgun and it went bang! Since then everytime I touch I firearm I check it's condition. Even if I locked it unloaded in the safe and then re-open the safe less than five minutes later. You cannot be too safe. A wise man once told me that if you spend enough time around firearms eventually you will have a ND and it will be your last whether you live through it or not.
Take care all.
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I dont trust grip safties at all a friend of mine has a kimber new out of the box and it will fire grip safe or not.
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Its why I love my Glock. I do trust the mechanics to keep it from going bang if I drop it. Beyond that I know that its my responsibility to keep it in a holster, and my finger off the trigger. There are many guns that will do that, I just like as close to idiot proof as possible when it comes to a ccw piece, because the fewer things to screw up, the less likely that you will do so. Its about good habits not good mechanics, BUT good mechanics make good habits easier.
FQ13.
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Its why I love my Glock. I do trust the mechanics to keep it from going bang if I drop it. Beyond that I know that its my responsibility to keep it in a holster, and my finger off the trigger. There are many guns that will do that, I just like as close to idiot proof as possible when it comes to a ccw piece, because the fewer things to screw up, the less likely that you will do so. Its about good habits not good mechanics, BUT good mechanics make good habits easier.
FQ13.
I can attest to that...... My brain is 100% Glocked when it comes to a CCW gun...... I was at the range once and my buddy handed me one of his new toys to shoot (cocked and locked)..... I knew it was loaded, but I thought nothing of it having a safety to disengage.... I kept it pointed in a safe direction and walked over the the firing line....
Me: "Damn, This sure is a heavy trigger"
My Buddy: "Try taking the thumb safety off"
Me: :-[
My buddy: ;D
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I'm just the opposite, E12.
When I go to shoot if my thumb doesn't have anything to do (safety or hammer) it says to me "Wait! gotta do something" and I actually take longer to shoot.
Old dog cat, old habits............. ;D
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I dont trust grip safties at all a friend of mine has a kimber new out of the box and it will fire grip safe or not.
Return it, it is defective and should not have left the factory.
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Return it, it is defective and should not have left the factory.
Absolutely return this pistol....Is it just me but are we hearing a lot of problems with Kimber firearms lately?
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I'm just the opposite, E12.
When I go to shoot if my thumb doesn't have anything to do (safety or hammer) it says to me "Wait! gotta do something" and I actually take longer to shoot.
Old dog cat, old habits............. ;D
my thumb rides the safety when I shoot, I've found it really helps with control the weapon. There really is no diffrence is speed between a glock and a 1911.