Heat press checkin'

[Trooper224]

Before starting clean up for our New Years Eve party, I was watching Heat. Always good for an eye roll.

[blues]

It's beyond annoying. And it's everywhere. Just like all the idiots who wait to load one into the chamber until they're approaching their target. Really?

[Trooper224]

It's beyond annoying. And it's everywhere. Just like all the idiots who wait to load one into the chamber until they're approaching their target. Really?

Hey, actors gotta act and dicks gotta dick.

[bofe954]

Do you give Pacino any points for not putting his thumb through the trigger guard?

[1911Nut]

This method of press checking a 1911 was actually taught and demonstrated by Colonel Cooper himself at Gunsite in March 1981. I know, because I was there.

He used the thumb inside the trigger guard method.

BTW, the other instructor in that class was Clint Smith, who also taught the same method.

I'm absolutely certain I am not remembering incorrectly . . . it was the "school" way.

Times change.

[Cory]

This method of press checking a 1911 was actually taught and demonstrated by Colonel Cooper himself at Gunsite in March 1981. I know, because I was there.

He used the thumb inside the trigger guard method.

BTW, the other instructor in that class was Clint Smith, who also taught the same method.

I'm absolutely certain I am not remembering incorrectly . . . it was the "school" way.

Times change.

I've seen others say the same. I guess times do change.

First time I saw it was in Theif with James Caan, posted above.

[okie john]

This method of press checking a 1911 was actually taught and demonstrated by Colonel Cooper himself at Gunsite in March 1981. I know, because I was there.

He used the thumb inside the trigger guard method.

BTW, the other instructor in that class was Clint Smith, who also taught the same method.

I'm absolutely certain I am not remembering incorrectly . . . it was the "school" way.

Times change.

I learned it from graduates of orange Gunsite.


Okie John

[1911Nut]

I've seen others say the same. I guess times do change.

First time I saw it was in Theif with James Caan, posted above.

I'm fairly certain (not positive) that Caan, in fact attended some type of training at Gunsite, where he learned weapon handling and manipulation prior to filming "Thief". Don't know if that training took place on-site at Paulden or was administered off-site.

[Chain]

Is checking bad in general, or just the way it's shown in these photos?

[SecondsCount]

I'm not a press checker but I always thought that was the reason for the checkering on the guide plug.