Unloaded, but still dangerous

Haven't managed to launch any Commander bits yet, but if anyone else here's a fan of 3rd-gen S&W autos then you're probably familiar with the ballistic guide rod phenomenon...
 
My son had an unfortunate episode with my laptop a few years ago. I saved a ton of cash replacing a damaged laptop screen with a used one. New OEM replacement $350, used screen $110 plus S&H.
It's been a while, but this company was good to deal with:

http://www.laptopking.com/
Good luck.
 
Astra 400. I swear they used the right front coil spring from a 47 Buick in that sucker! You do NOT want to be in front of one of those being disassembled!!! :eek:
 
The only man that has not launched a spring or plug from a 1911 is a man who has never taken one apart.
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My coach always told me there are those that have and those who will and just because you haven't yet you are not superior to those who have. I laughed I did but I shouldn't have. A couple of weeks later my plug and spring bounced off the wall about a foot from his head and he caught the spring in his coffee cup. Damn mustang LCDRs have memories like steel traps.:D

Worst of all he didn't say a word, just picked up my plug and brought it and his coffee cup over to me and asked me to wash his cup please. Fortunately only 6 or 7 people saw this, 4 of them fellow pistol team members.

Never never never laugh at somebody else's goof. Sorry about your screen but its still better than somebody's eye.

A gunnersmate on our ship did that in a motor whaleboat on the way to the pier to pick up and bring back a prisoner. The took his stripes for that because the spring is in the bottom of Naples Harbor and he was for all practical purposes an unarmed prisoner escort. He was showing off to the coxswain and engineer how fast he could field strip and reassemble a 1911A1 pistol. You were lucky.
 
My girlfriend was having issues with her 1911 last week.... keep in mind I work in a gun store... with gun smiths... and usually do all the disassembles and cleanings when we aren't busy.. and I was sitting at my desk as home taking hers down.

Well I was having a hard time with the bushing... next thing I know... BAM. I shot the plug into the ceiling hard enough to make a dent in the dry wall.. then it came straight back down and cracked me in the top of the head hard enough to make me feel like an idiot.:D
 
Reminds me of the time when I launched the barrel of my CZ52 out of the slide, through my open bedroom door and into my change jar. Its no fun sorting broken glass out of a pile of change. Its even less fun finding the roller cams with the vacuum 3 days later when new ones are already in the mail :o Oh well, couldn't hurt to get those along with the stronger firing pin. :)
 
I am so glad this post was made. I felt like a fool when I launched mine. I feel a lot better knowing I am not the only person to do this.
 
I am so glad this post was made. I felt like a fool when I launched mine. I feel a lot better knowing I am not the only person to do this.
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There are those that have and those who will. You should only feel foolish if you do it more than twice. I say twice because a few of us are slow learners and no, I admit to nothing. :D
 
Long time ago I have launch the bushing and the spring.

Recently, I have launched the firing pin and the firing pin spring from my 1911. The spring just hit the wall and landed on the floor. The firing pin went into an air conditioner intake -- had to got to the basement and disconnect some duct work to recover the pin.

Also, I have launch the rear S&W revolver sight plunger. recovered the spring but lost the plunger.

3 strikes, I guess I am out.
 
gizmo688
Unloaded, but still dangerous
My 1911 bushing and guide rod were being stubborn and i lost hold of the spring plug. Off it shot, and now I have a cracked laptop screen...
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I have had springs fly off and parts scatter, too. This is why I have been seriously considering wearing safety glasses when I work on my guns.
 
I had a gun self dis-assemble and heard the part hit something, but not that distinctive cement sound and only ONE sound. Searched for a long time and finally found it INSIDE a box that was nearly totally closed. Stuff hides on me when I drop it. Normally, It only comes out of hiding AFTER I order the replacement parts.
 
I got a plug from a Commander in the upper lip once while drying it out on a backpacking trip. Yep, it hurt and both eyes watered for awhile.
+1 on the safety glasses. If you're shooting, loading or working with springs, grinders or impact tools safety glasses are always a good idea.
 
And that, my friends is why the 1911 is a woefully outdated platform. That AD would not have happened with a modern pistol in a more suitable caliber...
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And that, my friends is why the 1911 is a woefully outdated platform. That AD would not have happened with a modern pistol in a more suitable caliber...
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Boo, hisss, hide your head, go to your room.

Wait a minute, what do you mean more suitable caliber? They haven't come up with a better one yet.
 
Back in the 1970s, in the Army, when the only magazines were 7rnd, and widebody 1911s were still a dream in engineers eyes, the recoil spring plug was often referred to as the "8th round"!

At Small Arms Repair School, you can imagaine the number of plug lauches that occurred, with classes of trainees students learning the gun for the first time! Interestingly enough, the Army (and the Marine corps - school was a joint venture) did NOT tell you to wear, or issue safety glasses!

What they did tell you, rather emphatically, was DO NOT Place your FACE over the MUZZLE!
 
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