They're great fun for shooting at coyotes .... or even the neighbor's dog when the idjit lets it run at large across your property.Tracers have been blamed, rightly or
wrongly, for starting fires at in-door ranges.
Plus one! RodTracers can and do start fires.
Once a fire starts.there is no telling how many thousand acres,homes,and businesses will burn.
We shooters face enough bad PR we really don't need the headlines "Fires caused by shooters firing tracer ammunition"
Thats one way to get vast tracts of land closed to shooting.
Somebody used to make birdshot with a tracer element in it...
That's because the U.S. military manual of arms calls for carrying with the hammer down on an empty chamber "unless enemy action is imminent" (or something very close to that in wording), when it calls for chambering a round, leaving the hammer cocked, and engaging the thumb safety.Donald Duck said:Years ago I was surrounded by WW II and Korean War Vets. They all had some military training on the 1911. But not a single one of them could ever remember anyone carrying the 1911 cocked and locked.
I'm a Vietnam veteran. Grunts in Vietnam (other than tunnel rats and some specialty MOSes) weren't issued pistols and didn't carry pistols. Officers carried them, but during my entire tour of duty in South Vietnam I never knew (and had no interest in asking) how officers carried their sidearms.Donald Duck said:These guys were all combat vets that saw a lot of battle. Still none of them knew anyone that ever carried their 1911 cocked and locked.
Cup and saucer. I've never heard of that, but as soon as I read your post I got it.Nothing particularly wrong with
the film.
OK, you can cite the cup/saucer hold
but that was back then.
But at least it allowed two-hand hold.
The reality is the Army didn't train
much with the 1911 back then.
Knew a fella who went through MP
training. He said his .45 training
consisted of two clips. That's right.
Back then it was clips, no magazines.
Now, when that film was made, it
no doubt was more important how
you laced the puttees. Sloppy
puttees, bad bad soldier.