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- From: laird@stable.ecn.purdue.edu (Kyler Laird)
- Newsgroups: rec.guns
- Subject: Re: Hi-Power mag safety
- Message-ID: <laird.725768537@stable.ecn.purdue.edu>
- Date: 31 Dec 92 16:36:15 GMT
- Sender: magnum@mimsy.umd.edu
- Organization: Purdue University Engineering Computer Network
- Lines: 37
- Approved: gun-control@cs.umd.edu
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- cash@convex.com (Peter Cash) writes:
-
- #Since the safety plunger exerts some friction on the magazine, I imagine
- #that its removal would cause the magazines to come out more easily. In
- #actual combat, this is a dubious advantage (though I have myself never
- #accidentally released the magazine on a P35). Trigger action should also be
-
- Speaking as one who has magazines that accidentally fall out of his PPK/S
- when fired, I would rather have a magazine fall out and hit my foot when
- accidentally released, instead of stay in the gun _most of the way_
- (just enough to make you think you're all set to fire again, but not enough
- to strip the top cartridge off).
-
- #marginally improved by removal of the plunger.
-
- It is.
-
- #I haven't removed the magazine safety from my High Power because I don't
- #think that the possible advantages of doing this outweigh the risks. For
-
- I had a tough time with this one, too...but the magazine drop is soooo nice.
-
- #me, the Browning High Power is a combat pistol _par excellence_, and I see
- #no reason to remove features that its designers saw fit to incorporate. The
-
- If I remember correctly, the M1911 design didn't have any safeties until
- the armed forces required it to make up for their soldiers' carelessness.
- (Sketchy memory here - I'd sure appreciate a reminder.)
-
- #trigger action is satisfactory as is--I wouldn't want a lighter action on a
- #combat pistol. I shoot as well as I need to with this piece as it comes out
- #of the box.
-
- Lighter isn't the point; smoother is.
-
- --kyler
-
-