Comments on: What is a combat handgun? http://www.saysuncle.com/2008/02/08/what_is_a_combat_handgun/ Remember, I do this to entertain me... not you. Sun, 22 Nov 2009 11:33:21 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Dr. Strangegun http://www.saysuncle.com/2008/02/08/what_is_a_combat_handgun/comment-page-1/#comment-194928 Dr. Strangegun Fri, 08 Feb 2008 18:40:10 +0000 http://www.saysuncle.com/archives/2008/02/08/what_is_a_combat_handgun/#comment-194928 "Seeing how both are semi-automatic pistols, you have to rack the slide first one either one to make it work, and who in the hell “thumb cocks” a 1911. When you chamber a round, the hammer is back already. You just engage the thumb safety and put it in the holster." Don't knock someone's intelligence without carefully considering the repercussions. Semiauto pistols don't need to be racked once loaded, and loading it really doesn't involve racking the slide since it's locked back after the last shot. Many military forces who carried the 1911 required it be carried with the hammer down, or worse with no round in the chamber ("Israeli" carry). For the former, one would definitely have to thumb cock it to fire. It's dumb, but it happened. “Seeing how both are semi-automatic pistols, you have to rack the slide first one either one to make it work, and who in the hell “thumb cocks” a 1911. When you chamber a round, the hammer is back already. You just engage the thumb safety and put it in the holster.”

Don’t knock someone’s intelligence without carefully considering the repercussions.

Semiauto pistols don’t need to be racked once loaded, and loading it really doesn’t involve racking the slide since it’s locked back after the last shot.

Many military forces who carried the 1911 required it be carried with the hammer down, or worse with no round in the chamber (”Israeli” carry). For the former, one would definitely have to thumb cock it to fire. It’s dumb, but it happened.

]]> By: Dr. Strangegun http://www.saysuncle.com/2008/02/08/what_is_a_combat_handgun/comment-page-1/#comment-194926 Dr. Strangegun Fri, 08 Feb 2008 18:36:58 +0000 http://www.saysuncle.com/archives/2008/02/08/what_is_a_combat_handgun/#comment-194926 Nothing happened, except the S&W M&P45 with the thumb safety, the XD45 with the thumb safety, the Beretta PX4 45 caliber, Taurus's Mil Pro 45 with the thumb safety, Ruger coming out with a line of striker operated pistol with thumb safeties, the brace of fresh polymer 45's from Kimber and other unlikely folks with thumb safeties, Armalite exploring the CZ/Tanfoglio/clone world to get a pistol that could, potentially, be a .45 with a thumb safety... Nothing happened, except the S&W M&P45 with the thumb safety, the XD45 with the thumb safety, the Beretta PX4 45 caliber, Taurus’s Mil Pro 45 with the thumb safety, Ruger coming out with a line of striker operated pistol with thumb safeties, the brace of fresh polymer 45’s from Kimber and other unlikely folks with thumb safeties, Armalite exploring the CZ/Tanfoglio/clone world to get a pistol that could, potentially, be a .45 with a thumb safety…

]]> By: John http://www.saysuncle.com/2008/02/08/what_is_a_combat_handgun/comment-page-1/#comment-194923 John Fri, 08 Feb 2008 17:05:04 +0000 http://www.saysuncle.com/archives/2008/02/08/what_is_a_combat_handgun/#comment-194923 <blockquote>Seeing how both are semi-automatic pistols, you have to rack the slide first one either one to make it work, and who in the hell “thumb cocks” a 1911.</blockquote> People who carry in Condition 2, it's not as uncommon as it should be.

Seeing how both are semi-automatic pistols, you have to rack the slide first one either one to make it work, and who in the hell “thumb cocks” a 1911.

People who carry in Condition 2, it’s not as uncommon as it should be.

]]> By: Laughingdog http://www.saysuncle.com/2008/02/08/what_is_a_combat_handgun/comment-page-1/#comment-194922 Laughingdog Fri, 08 Feb 2008 17:02:50 +0000 http://www.saysuncle.com/archives/2008/02/08/what_is_a_combat_handgun/#comment-194922 As I read more and more of that article, my opinion of the authors IQ just kept dropping and dropping. My favorite nonsense complaint was this. "Moreover, the M9 was a SA/DA (single action/double action) pistol, which meant that you didn’t need to thumb cock it like you did with the .45 or rack the slide to cock the hammer, you could just pull the trigger and the hammer would cock itself and fire." Seeing how both are semi-automatic pistols, you have to rack the slide first one either one to make it work, and who in the hell "thumb cocks" a 1911. When you chamber a round, the hammer is back already. You just engage the thumb safety and put it in the holster. As I read more and more of that article, my opinion of the authors IQ just kept dropping and dropping. My favorite nonsense complaint was this.

“Moreover, the M9 was a SA/DA (single action/double action) pistol, which meant that you didn’t need to thumb cock it like you did with the .45 or rack the slide to cock the hammer, you could just pull the trigger and the hammer would cock itself and fire.”

Seeing how both are semi-automatic pistols, you have to rack the slide first one either one to make it work, and who in the hell “thumb cocks” a 1911. When you chamber a round, the hammer is back already. You just engage the thumb safety and put it in the holster.

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