Found it on Pg 312 of Suydam's book. Case length: 1.113". COAL: 1.542".
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Found it on Pg 312 of Suydam's book. Case length: 1.113". COAL: 1.542".
Correct, imagine a .32 H&R Magnum with a longer COAL. I want to say it is in Suydam's "US Cartridges and Their Handguns."
Note that the cylinder in the patent has seven chambers. S&W had originally considered a longer ".32 Special" for the K-Frame. It would have been close to the .32 H&R Magnum in case length with a...
FWIW: The team that designed the EDC X9 had patents/
applications for a polymer frame variant. But they appear to be hammer-fired, not striker-fired. Moreover, they are not currently assigned to...
The official obituary was just posted online:
Dean Speir of Westhampton Beach Dies October 26 - 27 East...
I remember that Dean respected the late TLG. I suspect that he had a few fans left here.
https://scatteredshots.com/2023/11/10/left-the-range-dean-speir-1940-2023/
Looks like a good way to spring your crane/yoke.
The base idea tracks back to Thomas A. Milmore's patent of the early 1930s. There was a more recent variant from South America in the late 1980s....
Alas, none of those pending patent applications appear to have been published yet.
This is a link to the Army's report:
https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/pdfs/ADA078233.pdf
I'll find the citation on DTIC.mil once I get to my desktop. Part of the problem was that they were including the Temporary Stretch Cavity. They also used 20% ballistics gelatin, not the current...
If you pull up the issue covering the Security Six series, you can catch a glimpse of the trick extractor in an exploded parts diagram.
Colt did play with a .40 caliber cartridge in the Python back in the 1960s - the .400 Colt Magnum. The tool room prototypes were sold off during the 2000s.
The FTU's "Prepping the Trigger" methodology was mentioned in Glock's GAO Bid Protest.
https://www.gao.gov/products/b-236614
The following was represented by an advanced S&W collector as an internal memo from a S&W engineer to management. It discussed some of the issues being had by the FBI with their Model 1076, along...
FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION
SOLICITATION NO. RFP 4756
FOR 10 mm PISTOLS
SPECIFICATIONS
PART I
1. WEAPON
(a) The pistol shall be of caliber 10mm. Specifically, the loading to be used...
For what it's worth, here is S&W's patent for the frame-mounted decocker:
https://patents.google.com/patent/US5086579A/en
I have a copy of what is reputedly the FBI's Request for Proposal for...
There were at least three bricked FBI 1076 documented. One happened in Miami in the field. No shots were fired in the arrest of a bank robber, but when the agent tried to clear his pistol...
You might be thinking of Live Free Armory's...
You might be thinking of Live Free Armory's Apollo 11 pistol. LFA is supposedly a major OEM source of firearms components for nearly 100 companies.
FWIW: The locking design is covered by US Patent #10,018,433B2.
https://patents.google.com/patent/US10018433B2
The bevel on the end of the guiderod meets an opposing bevel within the "piston"...
Kimber has patent applications for a new optics-ready, metal frame, double-stack 1911. The grip panel attachment looks sketchy though.
Smith & Wesson has been working on a 5.7x28mm, .22 Magnum,...
I nearly forgot that TK Custom doesn't recommend 9x19mm cartridges loaded to pressure exceeding 34 to 35K PSI in their converted cylinders. The tapered case probably lends to setback, as well as...
FWIW: TK Custom will modify non-Ti .38/.357 cylinders for 9x19mm in full-moon clips. They leave enough of a lip around the outer edge that the rimmed cartridges will still headspace without clips....
The "thumb safety" is apparently the slide release.
FWIW: I noted some of the patents several months ago when the new "High Power" was introduced. They appear to have dropped all of the Bubits-inspired features, and I suspect the P210/CZ75-lower...