I don't think I have ever seen anyone shoot a cutaway pistol before! Even after nearly a hundred years, the artistic mechanical simplicity of a Browning designed auto pistol is still hard to beat!
Not much information to be gained over manipulating the mechanical bits of your gun as you clean them, but yeh, almost pretty to see them all working on their own. Also confirms my gut feeling that my .45 doesn't start kicking until after the bullet is well away. (Must learn to hand-load, as .45 ACP is up to $.50/round in some places!)
It's got to take a certain kind of character to design these things, though. Once a gun is out of the factory, it doesn't care whom it kills. Hiram Maxim relaxed by designing mouse traps; I suppose having a hobby helps.
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I don't think I have ever seen anyone shoot a cutaway pistol before!
Even after nearly a hundred years, the artistic mechanical simplicity of a Browning designed auto pistol is still hard to beat!
Not much information to be gained over manipulating the mechanical bits of your gun as you clean them, but yeh, almost pretty to see them all working on their own. Also confirms my gut feeling that my .45 doesn't start kicking until after the bullet is well away. (Must learn to hand-load, as .45 ACP is up to $.50/round in some places!)
It's got to take a certain kind of character to design these things, though. Once a gun is out of the factory, it doesn't care whom it kills. Hiram Maxim relaxed by designing mouse traps; I suppose having a hobby helps.
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