Found this buried deep in the berm at the Renton Fish and Game club. It’s a 100 year old silent movie of one of the very first Single Stack matches shot with a then, brand new, M1911 pistol. What a rare find!
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For all the wonderful times I had shooting 200gr Round nose bullets at brown targets. You made me feel proud carrying you by my side, you helped me win my first major IDPA match, and you provided peace of mind to my family and I for the past two years.
Today marks the 100th anniversary of the adoption of the Automatic Pistol, Caliber .45, Model 1911 by the United States armed forces. John Moses Browning’s design stood the test of time and to this date, is the most used, most fired, most copied pistol design in the modern world.
I’m glad to own two of them and will gladly own more in the next few years.
Happy 100th Anniversary buddy!
ps. Incidentally, today also marks the day the HB1016 bill for Suppressor use passed in Washington state allowing legal owners of suppressors to use them anytime they wish. Awesome!
Here’s what I carry everyday now, or as much as I possibly can. I can’t carry this to work but any chance I get during the weekends or going out to get groceries, this is what I have strapped to my hip.
It’s a Kimber Eclipse Pro II with a faux-ivory grip to make it look like the new Kimber Royal II and the Kimber 1911 centennial, without the hefty price tag. The holster is a Landshark Leather Commander Length holster that was custom made for me by Rob Cerullo in ox-blood (purple).
The Eclipse series, although on the heavy side with the full steel frame, looks very sexy and still feels ok to carry.
One day I’ll have to make one of those CCW videos that are so popular on Youtube.
I’ve always been perplexed with tuning or adjusting the extractor tension for a 1911. I can never get my head around what would be considered a properly tuned extractor even after reading what most would call, the bible on proper extractor tuning by John Marshall of Wilson Combat (http://www.m1911.org/technic2.htm)
I understand why and how you’d tune it but will never understand what would happen to the case if tension is too tight, or if the face of an extractor is not beveled.
This excellent video by doctruptwn on YouTube is a great walkthrough on how you should tune and test your extractor tension. It put me on the right path to understand this more.
After watching that video and reading the article again, I managed to successfully adjust the extractor on my Kimber Eclipse Pro II and now it’s ejecting rounds 3 ft away from me instead of getting it shot at my forehead.
