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Browning 1900 pistol manual11/14/2022 ![]() ![]() The grip safety was and is a drop safety…not a carry safety…made necessary by the heavy steel sliding trigger. Which brings us to the often maligned grip safety. Like the 1907, it had a grip safety, but no thumb safety…and still relied on the captive half-cock notch for its manual safety. It used the tilting barrel, single link, sliding, straight-line trigger, and forward slide dismount. ![]() Here, we see the first real resemblance to the 1911. 45 cartridge, so a complete redesign was needed. Those pistols didn’t hold up to the recoil forces generated by the required. Like the Model 1900, 1902, and the 1905, the 1907 still used the pivoting trigger, non-tilting twin-linked barrel, and rear slide dismount. The grip safety was also added on request of the US Army, and it first appeared as a tacked-on addition on a few of the Model 1905s, and incorporated into the design on the 1907. Thus, the 1911 CAN be carried cocked and locked, but it wasn’t designed or intended specifically TO be carried that way. If the truth was known, he was probably pretty sick of the whole affair by the time he finished with it, and was ready to move on. Beyond that, he probably didn’t give a rotund rodent’s rump what they did. Even in those unenlightened days, the thinking heads realized that a man might neglect to get his finger away from the trigger should he have to reholster the pistol under the stress of a fight…a point that Gaston Glock either failed to consider or decided to ignore.īrowning rather gave the choices of Conditions 1…2…3…or half cocked. Second…Browning’s first submission of what we recognize as the 1911 was the Model of 1910, which didn’t yet have the manual safety that we’ve come to call the “thumb safety.” That was the request of the US Cavalry and the reason was so that the mounted trooper could quickly make the gun safe and free up both hands to regain control of a frightened, unruly horse on the premise that the gun would be redrawn shortly afterward. This is true of all military arms, from the pistol to the 155 self-propelled howitzer. It was to be a military sidearm, and…as has always been military protocol…it was to be kept with the chamber empty and the hammer lowered unless and until action was imminent or the order was given to lock and load. There was no intent for the gun to be continuously maintained in Condition One…neither by Browning nor the US Army. Simply put, he and Colt’s team of engineers and designers gave’em what they asked for…no more and no less. Browning was hired to guide and direct as he worked on past designs to bring the US Army’s request for a new automatic pistol to reality. John Browning didn’t have a free hand with the 1911 and he didn’t do it alone. Subject: Cocked and locked and ready to rock…the way that JMB intended! Right? Well, no. ![]()
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