A mystery with the EMP from Springfield

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Bart Noir

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I just bought the EMP 4 in the Concealed Carry Contour version. And it is just a great pistol which I wanted ever since they came to the gunshops.

It is a scaled-down 1911. They reduced many dimensions yet kept the basic 1911 design, to include the swinging link under the barrel. And it all works. It is an easy gun to shoot, the recoil is not bad, and it shoots more accurately than I will ever do.

Here is the mystery: When I pull back the hammer manually, I get 3 clicks. Not 2 clicks like every 1911 ever made. It has two clicks and two hammer positions before getting to full cock. The full-cock position is click number 3.

The diagram in the manual is not for this version of the EMP, as I can tell by the fact that pistol doesn't have a built-in lock, yet the diagram shows it. It may be that the other EMP versions do have this lock.

So, comrades in 9mm shooting, I ask if your EMP versions (3-inch barrel, or the 4-inch which is not the CCC) have three hammer positions.

Bart Noir
 
Congratulations, you have the Special Springfield Superfluous Notch Hammer.

A real 1911 has half cock and full cock notches.
A Series 80 has a "safety stop" and full cock notch. Some guns without firing pin obstructions use the same.

But a few Special Springfields, not just EMPs, have all those notches, "safety stop", half cock, and full cock. The only mystery is not why it clicks more, but why SA thought it was desirable in some but not all of their guns.

Lacking a bug in the SA executive suite, or the chief engineer's psychologist's notes, all I can say is "Don't worry, be happy."


On the other matter, SA has apparently quit putting key locks in their guns. The manual printer just hasn't caught up with the factory.
 
Thanks Jim, now I can stop worrying that I'm having troubles counting to 3 :p

Did I mention that I like this pistol? I just realized that there is literally nothing that I want to change on it. Not sights, not grips, not a trigger job. It is so just right.

Bart Noir
 
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