How a 1911 can get you killed

[Hornett]

Good 'ol Jerry
[video=youtube;HIwVK_FxGZk]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIwVK_FxGZk[/video]

 

[indiucky]

Has anybody ever shot a handgun upside down? Can you imagine all the things that can go wrong.

Yes...A model 28-2 Smith and Wesson back when I was in my late teens/early twenties...A PPC shooter was doing it at the range and I asked him to teach me and he obliged....Everything is the same you just hold at 12 o'clock instead of 6 o'clock....You realize how little strength you have in your pinky and one can only fire it a few times comfortably...It's just trick shooting, it looks cool and is not that hard to do....

 

[Manan]

I carry a colt defender exclusively. I train with a colt defender exclusively (alot). I have carried a 1911 style pistol for over 35 years. I think I got this.

 

[BugI02]

Kixu Member Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: Good Ole' NC Posts: 58

Gun only fires upside down after reassembly...HELP!

One of my buddies just bought a Taurus PT1911. He was having lite primer strikes and his back strap safety was really hard to press. So, he and my other buddy took the gun apart, cleaned the firing pin channel, reassembled and instantly the lite primerstrikes where fixed. Now to the back strap safety, they disassembled the gun far enough to get to the leaf spring, bent very slightly the one finger on the leaf spring to fix the back strap safety tightness. When they put the gun back together, they were not able to get the gun to cock without racking the slide 4 or 5 times. When the gun finally does cock, the gun will not fire UNLESS it is turned upside down. Does anyone know what might have gone wrong? I don't know if it is in the way it was reassembled or what would cause this. I don't know where to start to help them. Your thoughts would be greatly appreciated.

From the 1911Forum. So there's at least ONE guy who needs to be able to fire a 1911 upside down.

 

[Thor]

Hey, I've got one of those in the safe...I've never tried or needed that but maybe I should try just in case...

 

[Cwood]

After reading all 8 pages of this thread lovemachine deserves more neg rep then INGO can provide

 

[Thor]

Man...you read all 8 pages...

 

[Cwood]

Man...you read all 8 pages...

Unfortunately I did.....

The snarky comments by Zoub and the gun comparisons to women got me thru it lol

 

[lovemachine]

After reading all 8 pages of this thread lovemachine deserves more neg rep then INGO can provide

Glad you're back man. Can't wait for you to leave again!

 

[Zoub]

Man...you read all 8 pages...

As a previously active participant in this thread, I don't think I even read all of it. You know, when you think about this silly ****, I see the Black Knight of Monty Python fame.

Go ahead, shoot me again with your POS (insert brand here), it doesn't hurt.

Between this and the Judge thread and I should be good until 2017. However, if there is ever a shotshell in a 1911 vs Glock thread, I am so in on that one.