Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Handguns Carrying a Fully Loaded 1911 (again)

Since you need to thumb the hammer back either way, wouldn't hammer down with a round in the chamber be safer than half cock? Cocked and locked just looks like an accidental discharge accident waiting for a place to happen. Probably the reason that I tend to carry a double action semi-auto or revolver.

you're really too dumb to own a firearm

Chippy,

The interesting thing about all that, is nowhere in that long winded reply is there a single reference to you being a certified 1911 armorer for an agency, or holding any factory certificates that relate to the 1911. Neither basic or advanced.

Being a civilian contractor in AFG and teaching legal/paperwork matters, and watching our military do things off base, while you sit on-post is not relevant to 1911s. I know darn well you were not carrying a 1911, as I am intimately familiar with what weapons systems were on the books with DOS during your stated time frame. Attending law school is also not relevant. If this topic were about prosecuting drunks who crashed on the I-5, then some of your background would be relevant.

18 months of active service, with most of that spent teaching MP things, then as you state, before long becoming a provost marshal investigator for the rest of your 18 months of active service, is again not relevant.

Again, nowhere in there is there documented in-depth training on the internal workings of a 1911 such as on the level that a unit armorer would receive, or even at the level of a state police armorer, such as attending the Colt 1911 armorer school. And that is just the very most basic of levels.

Nowhere is there anything about you teaching any armorer schools as an SME. If you were an SME, it is likely that you would have a resume that showed you as instructing 1911 specific classes. There is nothing.



The funny part is that a great many of us can recognize the "Baffle them with BS" schtick when we see it, and it is no surprise that when your background doesn't really measure up, you just throw out a bunch of totally irrelevant fluff to make your lack of qualifications less obvious, such as talking about watching an A-10 drop ordinance. While watching an A-10 drop bombs is cool, it has absolutely nothing to do with how a 1911 works. But as you know throwing out fluff to mask facts (such as lack of creds in this case), is something that attorneys do.


You might want to slow your roll a bit. You don't know your audience or their backgrounds. One thing is universal. Nobody like unsolicited advice, especially when it is from someone who thinks they know more than everyone one else, and comes across as "my way is the only way".



Food for thought.

Okay, I should have known you were up to no good. There were certainly enough clues. But, hope springs eternal, and so I took your bait, even after I said I wouldn’t. That’s a horse on me.

To you, it seems, no one can acquire knowledge except through formal, documented training. So, acquiring knowledge through life experiences doesn’t count in your personal, autocratic world?

If you can identify anything I have posted on this forum which is actually false, do it now.

Otherwise, let’s get down to your real problem. Just what is the basis for your belief that you have been appointed to act as the gatekeeper for this forum on behalf of all its viewers? What qualifies you to determine for everyone else what should be said here, and by whom?

Okay, I should have known you were up to no good. There were certainly enough clues. But, hope springs eternal, and so I took your bait, even after I said I wouldn’t. That’s a horse on me.

To you, it seems, no one can acquire knowledge except through formal, documented training. So, acquiring knowledge through life experiences doesn’t count in your personal, autocratic world?

If you can identify anything I have posted on this forum which is actually false, do it now.

Otherwise, let’s get down to your real problem. Just what is the basis for your belief that you have been appointed to act as the gatekeeper for this forum on behalf of all its viewers? What qualifies you to determine for everyone else what should be said here, and by whom?

Exchipy a gunfighting scholar such as yourself would be well served by researching Mac Sage's background and experience via his posting history. Your CV reveals an old remf and attorney whose background is neither current or relative to this discussion.


mike r

It's ok Mike.

Though I appreciate the kudos Friend.

My background isn't really relevant to this dumpster fire. You can have the best, worst or a middle of the road CV. What I have observed that matters more is your ability to impart information to adult learners in a way that they absorb the information and retain it. Doing so in a manner that has them wanting to learn more and pass on what they learn is even better. As you probably know, before you can instruct on anything (on the .mil/.gov side), from M24s to M9s or even cultural awareness, require prerequisite training in ALT, Adult Learning Theory. In other words, how to teach adults.

Chippy would do well to check his ego at the door and learn how to teach, if he actually wants people to hear his message.

The question is, is he in this for attention seeking reasons, because he wants to be recognized as someone important. Or is he actually interested in teaching about a particular topic. I have my own thoughts on the subject, based on his conduct.

You are full of more BS than fruit cake. He just pointed out the obvious.

You try to come across as all knowing yet aren't all know and yet you act as if you are superior yet you are not.

You come across as a genuine price

I dont mind continual reminders at all, safety can never be thought about enough, just last November in Tanzania, i had Wife, camera guy and two game scouts behind me, PH and two trackers in front, every second thought for 14 straight days and over a hundred miles of walking was MUZZLE!.......didn't bother me a bit, in fact, over the last couple years had one old guy ask me if i knew the hammer was back on my pistol, another asked me why the hammer was cocked and in my holster, maybe these two older guys were between WW-II and Korean war Veterans, who knows, it also didn't bother me to tell each how a 1911 is supposed to be safely carried with a round in the chamber.

I didn't/don't give a flying fu-k if they liked my delivery on the matter, but now they know, i'm sure they weren't over analyzers leaking estrogen on the subject, they just didn't know.

mike r

Even if I know absolutely nothing, and say something correct through blind luck, it is still correct.

A defining trait of liberal democrats is their constant search for new ways to be offended. Judging from the phony outrage so loudly professed here, apparently they are not the sole possessors of this trait.