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- From: erudnick@pica.army.mil (FSAC-SID)
- Newsgroups: rec.guns
- Subject: Re: M1911 operation
- Message-ID: <9212211415.aa16761@claudius.pica.army.mil>
- Date: 22 Dec 92 00:00:34 GMT
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- Barry Needham writes:
- ##I just acquired a Polish VIS ("Radom") pistol. It has very similar lines
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- #Let me get this right... A single action 1911 clone, in a minor caliber, that
- #has a decocker but no manual safety. Must have been made in Poland :-)
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- The VIS/Radom is not a clone. Think of it more as an evolutionary development,
- like the High Power. By "minor caliber" I presume you are using an IPSC/Luddite
- convention, which may be dismissed out of hand.
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- As to a manual safety, that may be fine for games like IPSC, but the
- designers of the VIS thought it unnecessary at best and dangerous at worst
- on a combat pistol. The grip safety provides sufficient operational
- safety, like the trigger safety lever on a Glock. Note that the Tokarev
- has no manual safety either in its original form.
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- The decocker was a requirement for safing the pistol with one hand following
- use. It's easy to cock the hammer manually, but decocking is not easy with
- one hand (hence my original posting).
-
- As to the "made in Poland" comment, the Germans acquired the tooling for
- the VIS following the invasion, and liked the design so much that they
- produced over 300,000 of them, including some at Steyr, with the only
- changes being made for ease of production. Let me guess - they were stupid
- too, right?
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- Ed Rudnicki erudnick@pica.army.mil All disclaimers apply
- Protect the Second Amendment - boycott Ruger products
- Geordi: "...it's like the laws of physics went right out the
- window." Q: "And why shouldn't they? They're so inconvenient."
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