{"id":7089,"date":"2022-01-07T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-01-07T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/?p=7089"},"modified":"2021-12-30T19:22:40","modified_gmt":"2021-12-31T00:22:40","slug":"if-you-own-a-1911-pistol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/if-you-own-a-1911-pistol\/","title":{"rendered":"IF YOU OWN A 1911 PISTOL\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\u2026you <em>do <\/em>know it\u2019s a bad idea to slam the slide closed on an empty chamber, right?&nbsp; With this platform, it\u2019s best to <em>ease <\/em>the slide forward by hand to close it when the gun is empty.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here, from our friends at Brownell\u2019s, is an explanation why:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Smyth Busters: Dropping a 1911 Slide on an Empty Chamber\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/OK88VyZfs7k?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><figcaption>Or watch <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/OK88VyZfs7k\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">video here<\/a>.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>If you\u2019re not familiar with those Brownell\u2019s guys, I\u2019m sure the names Ken Hackathorn and Bill Wilson will ring a bell.&nbsp; There may be someone out there who knows more about the 1911 platform than these two guys, but I\u2019m not sure who it would be\u2026though I expect such a person would agree with them:&nbsp; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"DON&#039;T DO THIS to Your Guns - Gun Guys Ep. 17\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1AuVd0qycrc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><figcaption>Or watch the <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/1AuVd0qycrc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">video here<\/a>.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>If you\u2019re short on time, don\u2019t worry: this is the first topic that comes up.&nbsp; And, five or six minutes in, they\u2019ll tell you why it\u2019s not a good idea to slam the slide shut on <em>any <\/em>semiautomatic pistol when it\u2019s empty. There isn\u2019t a cartridge coming off the top of the magazine to slow down the slide, nor a cartridge rim inside the hook of the extractor to support and cushion that part as the slide mechanism drives it into battery. (It\u2019s worth your time to watch the rest of the whole video, by the way.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Yes, there are people on YouTube who sit in front of a camera repeatedly slamming slides closed on empty chambers and announcing, \u201cI\u2019ve always done it this way and my 1911 hasn\u2019t broken yet.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That\u2019s sort of like saying, \u201cI kick my puppy all the time and he hasn\u2019t bitten me yet or died yet.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Either way, you\u2019re kicking a puppy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2026you do know it\u2019s a bad idea to slam the slide closed on an empty chamber, right?&nbsp; With this platform, it\u2019s best to ease the slide forward by hand to close it when the gun is empty. Here, from our friends at Brownell\u2019s, is an explanation why: If you\u2019re not familiar with those Brownell\u2019s guys, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":7092,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-7089","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uncategorized"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7089","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7089"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7089\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7101,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7089\/revisions\/7101"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}