Questions and Contributions Please! THR Library Update

[Alexey931]

Do you mean the bolt carrier?

You mean the AK part? Looks like that.

 

[Alexey931]

What is the pistol part that prevents firing out of battery?

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[Majic]

What is the pistol part that prevents firing out of battery?

The Disconnector, it disengages the sear from the trigger when the slide is out-of-battery.

 

[Alexey931]

What is the link that transfers pull from the trigger to the sear? All the pistols have it, found also in other weapons, especially in bullpups.

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[Majic]

What is the link that transfers pull from the trigger to the sear?

In most pistols it's called the Trigger Bar, but in the 1911 format it's called the Trigger Bow.

 

[geekWithA.45]

Yo, Mods! Read Me!

Slickening...the process of making easy that which ought to be done.

Every couple of days on THR, I hear some call or another to "write the congress critter", and we all scurry off (or not) to use whatever mechanism we have handy for such things.

LET'S SLICKEN THAT, Yes?

If you paste this somewhere, you get a red, white and blue "enter your zip and contact congress thingy" from Capwiz.

Seems like it oughta go somewhere handy and convenient from L&P.

<script language="javascript" src="http://ffs.capwiz.com/DHTML/CAjsform.js"></script><form method="get" action="http://capwiz.com/stickers/" onsubmit="return verify(this);"><input type="hidden" name="dir" value="congressorg" /><input type="hidden" name="lvl" value="C" /><table border="0" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="0" bgcolor="#000000"><tr><td><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100" bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><tr><td align="center" colspan="2" bgcolor="#CC3333" valign="top"><img src="http://images.capwiz.com/img/stickers/box2_top.gif" width="100" height="33" /></td></tr><tr><td valign="top"><input name="azip" size="5" value="" /></td><td valign="bottom"><input type="image" src="http://images.capwiz.com/img/stickers/box2_go.gif" name="Go" border="0" width="39" height="23" alt="" /></td></tr><tr><td valign="top" colspan="2" bgcolor="#333399"><img src="http://images.capwiz.com/img/stickers/box2_bottom.gif" width="100" height="22" /></td></tr></table></td></tr></table></form>

 

[Alexey931]

Stovepiping

stovepipe: a condition where a case being ejected is jammed between the breech face and the slide, instead of getting clear of the weapon. Being almost always caught at 90 degrees angle to the barrel axis, it looks like a stovepipe.

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[Legionnaire]

pax, unless I missed it, I didn't find a link to dz's thread, "The Wisdom of Gale McMillan" from TheFiringLine. That ought to be somewhere in the library, in my opinion.

http://www.TheFiringLine.com/forums/showthread.php?threadid=60102&referrerid=0

 

[Alexey931]

WSD

WSD: White Self Destruction

 

[Alexey931]

ACOG

ACOG: Advanced Combat Optical Gunsight.

 

[Alexey931]

Yet another glossary, and much more

An excellent link:

http://www.aeroballisticsonline.com

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[Alexey931]

Parts of a box magazine

What are parts of a box magazine?

 

[Majic]

The body, spring, follower, and base plate.

 

[Alexey931]

Scope picture

Are there special terms dealing with the rifle scope picture and its imperfections due to incorrect sight alignment?

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[Majic]

Are you talking about parallax?

 

[Alexey931]

No. Parallax is the difference between the barrel axis and the scope axis (sight radius). I mean the visual effects occurring when the eye is not in its proper place right on the scope axis.

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[Fred Thompson]

Over-unders come in 12, 16, 20 and 28 gauges. Perhaps also in .410 bore and 10-gauge, though I have no personal experience with the latter two.

cdbeaver, you forgot the ever-popular 5.56 - 40mm over/under combo..

 

[Alexey931]

Magazine again

What are the little curvy things that keep the upper round in place?

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[Alexey931]

An assortment of questions

plunger tube: ?
screamer: ?
+p pressure: ?

 

[BluesBear]

What are the little curvy things that keep the upper round in place?

Feed lips.

 

[Alexey931]

LDA

LDA: ?

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[BluesBear]

Light Double Action

A term coined by ParaOrdinance of Canada for their Double Action only 1911 clones.

 

[Alexey931]

DPS: ?
BHP: ?

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PS Nobody has anything to say about the scope sight pictures (see above)?

 

[BluesBear]

Department of Public Safety

Browning High Power aka P-35



Scope question is aberration.


+P is a higher than standard pressure as defined by SAAMI (Sporting Arms and Ammunition Manufacturers' Institute)
Only .38 Special, 9x19mm and .45acp have actual +P definations. Sometimes the .38 Super is designated as a +P round but it is only actually +P when compared to the dimensionally identical .38 ACP.

The Plunger Tube is located just above the left grip on a 1911 pattern pistol. It containes a spring with a plunger on each end. The forward end bears against the slide stop and the rear end bears against the thumb safety. It engages a detent in each to hold them in position.

Screamer is either a pyrotechnic shell which eminates a loud shrieking sound when fired and is designed for animal control or a very high velocity projectile.

 

[Alexey931]

Aberration

Scope question is aberration

Looks like that. Perhaps I mean something close, but different. Let's assume that you are teaching somebody to take aim with the scope. What's the wording you'll be using? "Keep your head so that all of the picture is clear. As soon as you see ... it means that you are in error. Keep your sight picture clear." I'm actually talking about word(s) describing ... .

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