Garandimal
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I absolutely can. Because if my thumb is on top of it, it’s off.
Then, riding the OEM fiddle-switch, how do you depress the grip-safety?
GR
I absolutely can. Because if my thumb is on top of it, it’s off.
Then, riding the OEM fiddle-switch, how do you depress the grip-safety?GR
What the Sam Hill are you talking about?
Grip safety is disengaged in that picture, even with my hand rolled slightly open to photograph it. Grip harder.
For me, under the circumstances that I carry, I am not comfortable with potential energy stored in the firing control systems of any pistol. This applies to striker fired pistols or single action pistols with some sort of manual safety...
Simple.
To ride the OEM Springfield fiddle-switch, I have to reach up and back, and it disengages the grip-safety.
Like this picture:
GR
I see what you mean. That's a dismal flaw common with many 1911's.
You need to tear drop cut the thumb safety paddle. Remove the rear of the paddle. It allows your thumb to point forward more, and gives the web of your hand more purchase on the grip safety.
Then you need to file the grip safeties block down until just the slightest amount of movement deactivates it. I call it sensitizing the grip safety. It's a shame that almost no 1911's come with these absolutely critical mods. Most noticeable in rushed draw training.
Cocked and locked 1911 is still the safest pistol out there, regardless of how we feel about the hammer.
Support hand is too low that way. Giving up some recoil control. The meat at the base of your support hand thumb should almost kiss the bottom of the thumb safety.
And you risk activating the safety during recoil, under stress. If I couldn't get over he safety, I'd cut it down a ton like the early 1911's.
I have noticed in the past that trained Military Police can draw, rack the slide, and fire a 1911 about 99 percent as fast as a shooter with a cocked and locked weapon.
There is much to like about condition three. I would be reluctant to tell the Military Police or the Israelis that they're wrong.