perreterecon It really is a shame that automatics are notoriously more difficult to reload than revolvers. I'd take a much faster reloading Single Action Army over one of those newfangled automatics any day.
I think it's more that people just don't like change, even if it's for the better. I mean... I guess there are a lot of things in modern times that are here for our convenience but ultimately end up being extremely inconvenient and downright annoying at times, like Windows 10. But the increased firepower, stopping power and ease of use these guns offered seem to be better in every measurable way. Maybe we will get to the point of being aggressively anti-change later in our lives too.
perreterecon I suppose it's important to remember at this point that the Military did go with the .45 and the Colt in the end. So someone saw the benefits of it.
For those asking about one handed loading of revolvers and pistols this was a request, particularly by cavalry regiments. It was possible with some revolvers to operate them one handed plus wedging the barrel between legs or similar. Webley & Scott revolvers for example had a top break action which automatically ejected the spent cases, then you could use a speedloader to replenish the rounds, close the action and away you go. Convenient if injured or using one hand to ride/steer etc. I can imagine many were concerned that racking the slide on a pistol could be difficult in comparison. The auto pistol concept was quite new and little was known. I know this may seem obvious, am just trying to contribute to the discussion.
I'm so glad that modern 1911's don't use the same method of disassembly by removing that wedge. I can only imagine how many of those would get lost during a field strip.
badly and not fast!!!!but it can be done! you pop open the cylinder, dump the empties put it between you legs and load the chambers then close the cylinder, if your wounded and have one arm useless you can but it's not fast!!
Supposedly you tuck it under your other arm and simply operate it. While riding the horse. Probably at full gallop. Probably not as easy as we think today ;-). With an automatic pistol you has to tuck it under your arm too, then you must remove the magazine and then tuck it under the same arm, with great risk of loosing it, before you reload it and replace it in the pistol. Spare magazine, you say?. Yeah, mayby that happened some times back then ;-)
We don't like it ...... it ain't no Springfield .... Of course ..... they did not have the Lara Croft style magazine holders for around the saddle horn yet.
Very interesting to see the differences and the in progress nature of it. I did not know about the dual link system- interesting, but that transverse wedge is definitely a weak point. We tend to forget that the development process was a series of modifications done by factory designers on JMB's basic layout, and that JMB also did mods to the layout himself. If this was a British arm, it would probably be the No. 2 Mk 4**** by the time the 1911 was finalized and adopted. Great video as always. Thank you
The first pistol I ever purchased was an Interarms Silver Cup M1911A1, which was, in fact an imported frame with a Remington military surplus slide, and probably, who knows? parts from where ever. She was a sweet gun, and I carried her for many years on the PD. I finnaly let my brother-in-law talk me out of it, at the time I had just purchase an AMT Hardballer and thought it was a good gun. Man what a mistake to make, my silver cup was twice the gun of the AMT POS. I got ride of that bucket of crap and soon found a better M1911 to carry. Since the first time I fired a military handgun, in 1970 Army Basic Training, I have loved the M1911A1, and to this day, I still carry a little cut down version in .45ACP as my conceal carry, a recently manufactured Citadel in the General Officer's configuration. Pretty gun but suffers from the military parkerization rather then the bluing that I prefer, but when you are living on Social Security, you take the deal that you can afford, plus I once told my good wife of 50 years that I only had two hands, so I only needed two handguns. Another big mistake that comes back to haunt me every time a gun show comes to town. That said, I would love to get my hands on an early model like the one above but man the cost would just be way to prohibitive. Hell I paid less then that for my last car.
Palpatine seems to be a PPK fan to me judging on how he conducts himself, always working from the shadows, not wanting direct confrontation if at all possible. The Walther PPK would be good gun for him. Vader would be a Glock guy. Most likely a Glock 20 or 21 guy. No refinement, all business gets the job done. Luke and most Jedi would be custom 1911 guys and girls that they build themselves.
You have so much knowledge on so many firearms and I love learning about all of them especially with the way you explain and teach. Do you know all this information beforehand or do you research each firearm before you film each video?
Ian, may I ask you a question? Have you studied history or other thing in the field of humanities? I'm getting my bachelor's degree in history and I must say the research you do for your channel is quite impressive. You gather up documents and reports from the time, read up a lot on the subject - something very much like what historians do. Anyhow, congrats on the great work you've been doing. Cheers.
There are techniques for all semi-autos that dont require 2 hands to reload. Basically, you need to use something to hold the gun still while you insert the fresh magazine. Then you use something else to rack the slide off of. With a rifle, you could just keep it clamped down while you use the charging handle. idk how well that would work with a revolver because you need to eject the casings and then load the cylinder. That might still be doable but it would be much more difficult.
some revolvers like the Webley Scott had a top open, auto eject, speed loading method which could be done one handed fairly easily. Just need to jam the barrel somewhere like between legs to keep it steady.
I saw serial #134 at the National Sporting Arms Museum in Springfield, MO. The grip safety is smaller than this example. You say the longer safety like shown is the more recent design. Why would they put an older design on a later production gun? Excellent video by the way. Is there any chance you can go to the National Sporting Arms Museum? They have many beautiful guns locked away behind glass. This is also posted on Full30.
Yeah during the video, when he brought that up, the only thing I could think of is what a nightmare it would be trying to reload a revolver from the back of a nervous horse in the middle of battle.
You can make the revolver stationary with your legs and reload with the other hand. They were probably unaware they could rack the slide with their belt.
Ian, was there a Colt design (or copy) that used a captive bar to retain the slide so it couldn't go missing? I seem to recall you mentioning it before. Unless it's another case of my wishful historical revisionism 😁
Always great to see the developmental steps of the 1911. It would be fun to shoot one of these and experience the difference in how they must "feel." How's the trigger on it?
I think that to get a better understanding of where they were coming from with that you would have to look toward the weapons drills and specific revolvers they had been using at the time, and how they were attempting to reload these new Colts while on horseback. Hopefully someone more familiar with that era can chime in, but I do know that reloading with 'one hand' in various ways was used by cavalry over the decades with different holsters, tucking it under the rider's arm, or as a stretch holding in the same hand as the reigns while your other hand did all the 'fine work'. Even today I've run into people who insist that their revolver is a "Better weapon" because they can 'easily reload and cock' it with one hand, but pulling back the slide on a semiautomatic clearly needs two hands.
Just snug that fucker betwixt your leggings and reload with one handed from horseback... easy peasy. Honestly though, their complaint was likely referring to racking the slide. I guess they didn't know about belts yet.
Someone said in a comment you accidently fixed an auction gun while playing with it once, and now I have to watch every video you've made on semiauto Colts Not a chore though!
With regards to the two-hands complaint I guess what it means is that the revolver guys liked being able to fill up their cylinders with loose cartridges from a pocket. They reason that this is a one-handed reload. If they try to use a semi auto the same way, they have to hold the magazine separately from the pistol while they load it, making it a two-handed reload. Carrying multiple magazines hadn't entered military doctrine at this point (since magazine fed pistols were a new concept), and even if it had, cavalrymen would still argue that they would have to reload their magazines eventually. To them, the magazine was an extra step between loading and firing the gun.
#Forgotten Weapons# Ian have you any experience of the old FN M1903 ? It was a service pistol in Sweden 1907 - 1980 when it was replaced in 1988 by the Glock 17 Pistol M88 and the Glock 19 Pistol M88/B.
How do you reload any gun with one hand? I am not an actual gun guy but I don't see how it is possible to hold a gun and put cartridges into said gun with the same hand....
Aidan Templeton Correct. But gun trials take into account advances from other nations. I'm just using Webley as an example. The USA had the S&W no. 3, for example, which also was a top break revolver.
i didnt know it was top break, the things i saw werent they only flipped out, now im really curious how you break open a revolver with one hand on a horse and do that whole motion
Do you have a citation for the Army school of Musketry report on the pistol? It sounds like a rather interesting read, if only for its wrongheadedness.
would the twin link design be potentially more accurate? it seems like the barrel would be more consistent in its movements over a single link and a bushing and guide-rod setup. for the same reasons i can definitely see this design being a bit less reliable . plus it would seem to be more expensive to manufacture .
+Forgotten Weapons One of the complains was, that you had to use two hands to reload? How the fluff can one reload any gun without using a second hand? I see why single handed reloading would benefit cavalry-men on their horses, but how would one do that, especially with a revolver?
TonboIV Then you could build a similar contraption for magazine-loaded guns and you'd probably still reload faster because you still don't have to fiddle around with single cartridges.
I believe they were talking about releasing the magazine in specific with one hand, not the entire reloading process. Think the same reason they adopted the S&W Schofield a few decades prior. A Schofield or a double-action swing-out revolver can be easily opened with the shooting thumb, while the heel release on this semi-auto can't. Remember these guys are on still on horseback and would also be holding reigns in their hands.
I still giggle a bit thinking about cavalry in the 20th century. Boy the world sure wasn't ready for modern warfare, and they got one hell of a surprise once WW1 kicked in.
To be fair, the situation even up until the point when the US got involved in the war was a bit different in the theaters the US was involved in. Besides, it's not like cavalry was useless during the first world war. Geographically, most of it wasn't even trench warfare in a superlative sense. And horses in general were the main military 'vehicle' in the German military even during the whole of World War II. Basically, even though hindsight is 20/20, giggling at the idea is a bit of an overreaction.
....the US army kept cavalry units until 1944, so the surprise didn't register ....the polish cavalry were equipped with anti-tank guns and sabres, would you believe, up until 1939
jethro035181 Just as an addendum to Polish cavalry: the idea of the Polish military being primarily cavalry-based during the Invasion of Poland is largely a masterful stroke of German misinformation, which is further evidenced by the fact that the misconception has stuck through the times. If you can get your hands on a Polish officer's handbook/manual/whatever (and someone to translate it), they provide some pretty cool insight into Polish cavalry tactics of the interwar period.
DetachTheMind ....the polish military wasn't cavalry based, obviously, but the cavalry was considered the most important and prestigious arm....there are still very large, ceremonial, government supported, cavalry units in the polish army today. ....i don't need any cool insights into their tactics, 'cause my great uncle was in their cavalry, and had nothing but contempt for 'em and poland as a whole....it wasn't german propaganda
The fact that he never has to read a script and truly understands the history of the weapons he shows is very impressive.
maybe he's using a teleprompter?
I had this weird ass dream where I saw Ian outside a Sams club selling street sweeper shotguns, have no idea what it means.
Probably wasn't a dream. Ian looks like the kinda guy that would sell street sweepers in front of a sam's club.
i agree
I had a weird ass dream about this gun too...and trying to explain to my mom how awesome and revolutionary it was when showing it to her
North Star he would never sell a street sweeper, he hates the things
That you are awesome. 💪
Ah yes, Colt's biggest failing that it requires two hands to reload, whereas revolvers can be reloaded telepathically.
perreterecon It really is a shame that automatics are notoriously more difficult to reload than revolvers. I'd take a much faster reloading Single Action Army over one of those newfangled automatics any day.
I think it's more that people just don't like change, even if it's for the better. I mean... I guess there are a lot of things in modern times that are here for our convenience but ultimately end up being extremely inconvenient and downright annoying at times, like Windows 10. But the increased firepower, stopping power and ease of use these guns offered seem to be better in every measurable way.
Maybe we will get to the point of being aggressively anti-change later in our lives too.
perreterecon I suppose it's important to remember at this point that the Military did go with the .45 and the Colt in the end. So someone saw the benefits of it.
but it doesnt. lol The rear sight makes it simple to do.
gi70st They didn't know that back then. That was before the Weaver stance too.
I have watched 22 videos from this guy in the last two hours. Help
Time well spent
+Salokin Sekwah true salokin I love your game reviews
Avi Nawy ...Uh thanks!
You don't need help, you need more Forgotten Weapons
Check out his website. There's guns over there that he hasn't covered in video (yet)
+Avi Nawy me too :D
For those asking about one handed loading of revolvers and pistols this was a request, particularly by cavalry regiments. It was possible with some revolvers to operate them one handed plus wedging the barrel between legs or similar. Webley & Scott revolvers for example had a top break action which automatically ejected the spent cases, then you could use a speedloader to replenish the rounds, close the action and away you go. Convenient if injured or using one hand to ride/steer etc. I can imagine many were concerned that racking the slide on a pistol could be difficult in comparison. The auto pistol concept was quite new and little was known. I know this may seem obvious, am just trying to contribute to the discussion.
I'm so glad that modern 1911's don't use the same method of disassembly by removing that wedge. I can only imagine how many of those would get lost during a field strip.
Man
"Can't shoot accurately with a grip safety".
Wow, that sounds like a lot of people these days as well.
How do you reload a revolver one handed?
I'm glad I'm not the only one wondering that
badly and not fast!!!!but it can be done! you pop open the cylinder, dump the empties put it between you legs and load the chambers then close the cylinder, if your wounded and have one arm useless you can but it's not fast!!
another thread seems to have worked out that they meant opening the cylinder/ removing the magazine. The 1907 had a heel release, not a button
Supposedly you tuck it under your other arm and simply operate it. While riding the horse. Probably at full gallop. Probably not as easy as we think today ;-). With an automatic pistol you has to tuck it under your arm too, then you must remove the magazine and then tuck it under the same arm, with great risk of loosing it, before you reload it and replace it in the pistol.
Spare magazine, you say?. Yeah, mayby that happened some times back then ;-)
We don't like it ...... it ain't no Springfield ....
Of course ..... they did not have the Lara Croft style magazine holders for around the saddle horn yet.
Hopefully people see this.
The two handed comment stemmed from two points:
1 putting a revolver under a leg
2 the heel release and racking the slide
Hahaha Colt basically told those cavalrymen who were complaining about the recoil to "git gud"
Great moves Ian, keep it up
Appreciate ya
Very interesting to see the differences and the in progress nature of it. I did not know about the dual link system- interesting, but that transverse wedge is definitely a weak point. We tend to forget that the development process was a series of modifications done by factory designers on JMB's basic layout, and that JMB also did mods to the layout himself. If this was a British arm, it would probably be the No. 2 Mk 4**** by the time the 1911 was finalized and adopted. Great video as always. Thank you
How did the calvary reload revolvers with one hand?
Tiny J their horse held the revolver for them.
The first pistol I ever purchased was an Interarms Silver Cup M1911A1, which was, in fact an imported frame with a Remington military surplus slide, and probably, who knows? parts from where ever. She was a sweet gun, and I carried her for many years on the PD. I finnaly let my brother-in-law talk me out of it, at the time I had just purchase an AMT Hardballer and thought it was a good gun. Man what a mistake to make, my silver cup was twice the gun of the AMT POS. I got ride of that bucket of crap and soon found a better M1911 to carry. Since the first time I fired a military handgun, in 1970 Army Basic Training, I have loved the M1911A1, and to this day, I still carry a little cut down version in .45ACP as my conceal carry, a recently manufactured Citadel in the General Officer's configuration. Pretty gun but suffers from the military parkerization rather then the bluing that I prefer, but when you are living on Social Security, you take the deal that you can afford, plus I once told my good wife of 50 years that I only had two hands, so I only needed two handguns. Another big mistake that comes back to haunt me every time a gun show comes to town. That said, I would love to get my hands on an early model like the one above but man the cost would just be way to prohibitive. Hell I paid less then that for my last car.
i wonder if they ever had a unskilled layman as a control in those military trials?
Plenty of cavalry privates in 1907 met that standard perfectly.
Rite on
If they had recruits using the guns what more could you ask for?
I get the feeling they just wanted to shit on the pistol as much as possible in the hope that it wouldn't be adopted.
Serial number 66, must be palpatiens favorite pistol.
Palpatine seems to be a PPK fan to me judging on how he conducts himself, always working from the shadows, not wanting direct confrontation if at all possible. The Walther PPK would be good gun for him.
Vader would be a Glock guy. Most likely a Glock 20 or 21 guy. No refinement, all business gets the job done.
Luke and most Jedi would be custom 1911 guys and girls that they build themselves.
The extended grip safety tang was not only added to mitigate hammer bit, but also to facilitate one-handed decocking.
I just have to say, your videos are just great, concise, informative, and very, very entertaining.
That is a beautiful weapon. I love the lines and how clean it is.
I got to see the remains of Bannerman's castle in the Hudson back in 1991. That's a helluva story all on it's own.
Awesome video as always Ian.:D
You have so much knowledge on so many firearms and I love learning about all of them especially with the way you explain and teach. Do you know all this information beforehand or do you research each firearm before you film each video?
Colt to the cavalry: Get good kids. Lol
Well, "Get good, kids.". "Get good kids" has very different connotations.
Only those who really know how to operate operationally understand the tactical no-hand reload.
Cavalry guys to Colt:"Yeah, but Bang Ouch"
Colt to Cavalry guys:"Suck it up buttercup"
Lol
i honestly think those parallel ruler colts are the best looking pistols ever made.
Ian, may I ask you a question?
Have you studied history or other thing in the field of humanities? I'm getting my bachelor's degree in history and I must say the research you do for your channel is quite impressive. You gather up documents and reports from the time, read up a lot on the subject - something very much like what historians do.
Anyhow, congrats on the great work you've been doing. Cheers.
On a bit of a tangent, check out Bannerman's Castle, it was a 'castle' built by Bannerman as an arsenal.
Great firearms history thank you.
Requires two hands to load. I'm not quite sure what that means, what gun doesn't require two hands to load?
There are techniques for all semi-autos that dont require 2 hands to reload. Basically, you need to use something to hold the gun still while you insert the fresh magazine. Then you use something else to rack the slide off of. With a rifle, you could just keep it clamped down while you use the charging handle. idk how well that would work with a revolver because you need to eject the casings and then load the cylinder. That might still be doable but it would be much more difficult.
some revolvers like the Webley Scott had a top open, auto eject, speed loading method which could be done one handed fairly easily. Just need to jam the barrel somewhere like between legs to keep it steady.
the only ones I know of are in a sci-fi movie!!!!
I saw serial #134 at the National Sporting Arms Museum in Springfield, MO. The grip safety is smaller than this example. You say the longer safety like shown is the more recent design. Why would they put an older design on a later production gun?
Excellent video by the way. Is there any chance you can go to the National Sporting Arms Museum? They have many beautiful guns locked away behind glass.
This is also posted on Full30.
oh how i have waited for this one!♥♥♥
well,even revolvers require 2 hands to be reloaded,right?So i don't think it was a legit complaint
Yeah during the video, when he brought that up, the only thing I could think of is what a nightmare it would be trying to reload a revolver from the back of a nervous horse in the middle of battle.
actually no, loading a revolver one handed is possible.
Domus deBellum can you explain thst?
You can make the revolver stationary with your legs and reload with the other hand. They were probably unaware they could rack the slide with their belt.
GruntBurger oh i understand and yes,they probably were
Ian, was there a Colt design (or copy) that used a captive bar to retain the slide so it couldn't go missing? I seem to recall you mentioning it before.
Unless it's another case of my wishful historical revisionism 😁
5:30 and reloading a revolver required one hand?
Always great to see the developmental steps of the 1911. It would be fun to shoot one of these and experience the difference in how they must "feel." How's the trigger on it?
Wait what? What kind of handgun were they referring to that only requires one hand to reload? Surely not a double action revolver
Yes please can we get an explanation for this.
I think that to get a better understanding of where they were coming from with that you would have to look toward the weapons drills and specific revolvers they had been using at the time, and how they were attempting to reload these new Colts while on horseback.
Hopefully someone more familiar with that era can chime in, but I do know that reloading with 'one hand' in various ways was used by cavalry over the decades with different holsters, tucking it under the rider's arm, or as a stretch holding in the same hand as the reigns while your other hand did all the 'fine work'.
Even today I've run into people who insist that their revolver is a "Better weapon" because they can 'easily reload and cock' it with one hand, but pulling back the slide on a semiautomatic clearly needs two hands.
Yeah, and how do they put the new cartridges in the cylinder with only one hand?
AldanFerrox Hold the revolver with something other than your other hand?
Just snug that fucker betwixt your leggings and reload with one handed from horseback... easy peasy.
Honestly though, their complaint was likely referring to racking the slide. I guess they didn't know about belts yet.
One of the complaints was that it took two hands to reload? Can you reload revolvers with only one hand?
Ian should look at the Firestar M40
Someone said in a comment you accidently fixed an auction gun while playing with it once, and now I have to watch every video you've made on semiauto Colts
Not a chore though!
Wow, only 15 thumbs down!!! That tells you how good Ian is!
Well TIL you can reload a revolver with one hand.
good stuff as usual
*tips barrel
M'Lady
With regards to the two-hands complaint I guess what it means is that the revolver guys liked being able to fill up their cylinders with loose cartridges from a pocket. They reason that this is a one-handed reload. If they try to use a semi auto the same way, they have to hold the magazine separately from the pistol while they load it, making it a two-handed reload.
Carrying multiple magazines hadn't entered military doctrine at this point (since magazine fed pistols were a new concept), and even if it had, cavalrymen would still argue that they would have to reload their magazines eventually. To them, the magazine was an extra step between loading and firing the gun.
thats interesting about the magazine being something you loaded, not just inserted new loaded one. it could appear as a fiddly extra step I agree.
Anyone have a link to the report from the school of muskettry he mentioned by chance?
#Forgotten Weapons#
Ian have you any experience of the old FN M1903 ?
It was a service pistol in Sweden 1907 - 1980 when it was replaced in 1988 by the Glock 17 Pistol M88 and the Glock 19 Pistol M88/B.
What a beauty. What did it sell for?
How exactly was a revolver better for reloading without two hands..? Did they have some sort of speed loader gizmo on their belts for that something?
so what was the actual reason for getting rid of the twin link?
How do you reload any gun with one hand? I am not an actual gun guy but I don't see how it is possible to hold a gun and put cartridges into said gun with the same hand....
They complaint that it's more difficult to reload this than a revolver?
I'm just not seeing it. Can someone please explain how you can reload a revolver with one hand?
I can't find the video he speaks about at 0:50
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+Forgotten Weapons thanks!
such a nice and helpful man.
Allows the barrel to tilt to chamber a new round more easily *BGM.41
how did they reload 1 handed on horseback using revolvers? the only techniques i could find didn't seem too plausible on a horse
Webley had a top break, auto eject, speed/round loader approach.
Aidan Templeton
Correct. But gun trials take into account advances from other nations. I'm just using Webley as an example. The USA had the S&W no. 3, for example, which also was a top break revolver.
i didnt know it was top break, the things i saw werent they only flipped out, now im really curious how you break open a revolver with one hand on a horse and do that whole motion
Do you have a citation for the Army school of Musketry report on the pistol? It sounds like a rather interesting read, if only for its wrongheadedness.
would the twin link design be potentially more accurate? it seems like the barrel would be more consistent in its movements over a single link and a bushing and guide-rod setup. for the same reasons i can definitely see this design being a bit less reliable . plus it would seem to be more expensive to manufacture .
I think the bullet leaves the barrel before the recoil actually happens, since the barrel has much more mass.
Colt and the US cavalry seemed to have had a burn session in 1908.
When was the first time a Government requested a grip safety, distributor, an individual?
Concerns about future quality control and metallurgy throughout production could have been well founded...
is there a video on the SA80 (not really a forgotten weapon but it's fairly interesting)
How is this double linked system accuracy wise comparing single linked?
Don't revolvers require two hands to reload as well?
How did they load the revolver with one hand
always love these 1911 predecessors
Everyone knows that revolvers in 1907 could be reloaded via telekinesis.
You keep saying the guns were returned to Springfield is that were they were sent?
I was gonna ask why if twin link is better. I guess it isn't if JMB was coming up with the pivot before anyone asked.
What was the problem with the twin pivot design
There wasn't a problem with it. They just chose to do away with it to make the guns simpler/cheaper to produce.
in the first scene, the colt has the profile of a Desert Eagle. wow
Will you ever post on the indepspirit again???
Probably not.
what is the indepspirit?
+Forgotten Weapons what is that?
lmgtfy.com/?q=indepspirit
***** yeah because some youtube channel that posted one video 10 years ago is definitely what theyre talking about, dipshit.
How many hands does it take to reload a .38 revolver?
five hands
+Forgotten Weapons One of the complains was, that you had to use two hands to reload? How the fluff can one reload any gun without using a second hand? I see why single handed reloading would benefit cavalry-men on their horses, but how would one do that, especially with a revolver?
Perhaps they were opening their revolvers and then jamming them into some part of the saddle?
TonboIV
Then you could build a similar contraption for magazine-loaded guns and you'd probably still reload faster because you still don't have to fiddle around with single cartridges.
MadnerKami
Perhaps, assuming I'm even right in the first place, but it seems like these guys were looking for complaints, not solutions.
I believe they were talking about releasing the magazine in specific with one hand, not the entire reloading process. Think the same reason they adopted the S&W Schofield a few decades prior. A Schofield or a double-action swing-out revolver can be easily opened with the shooting thumb, while the heel release on this semi-auto can't. Remember these guys are on still on horseback and would also be holding reigns in their hands.
Someone explain to me how you load 6 loose rounds into a 38 revolver with just one hand
How would a revolver be reloaded with one hand? especially back in the early 1900s
How do you reload any gun one-handed?
Do we still use grip safety in modern firearms?
Springfield XD
SOLD FOR  $ 11,500 Dollar !
Load with one hand? Like are they complaining about the slide?
heel magazine release
I'm going out on a limb here and say that those cavalrymen didn't reload their revolvers using a single hand either...
Some parts of it oddly remind me of a Steyr 1907 (?).
Which was based on the Colt 1903…
what a classic piece of history!
"It takes two hands to reload the gun."
Isn't that true for all guns? How do you reload a revolver with one hand?
There were guns in the 1907 trials that could be loaded and cocked with one hand.
Beautiful gun
An old one but a good one!
Nice gun
"...and try not to shoot yourself." I'd add "...or your horse."
i'd add:"or eatch other"
now where is the last surviving marksman's prize pistol ?
I understand them, because I never really managed to like revolvers.
So early the views are in the 100 range
First, the development of the 1911, then came the 1909, and now the 1907, but where is the 1910...
That 900 like/dislike ratio though
Ha, sounds exactly like what you would have to say to a cav trooper, "Don't shoot yourself."
beauty!
I have one item colt 1907
back when guns were like video game betas
Interesting 🤔
i personally like the 1902
I still giggle a bit thinking about cavalry in the 20th century. Boy the world sure wasn't ready for modern warfare, and they got one hell of a surprise once WW1 kicked in.
To be fair, the situation even up until the point when the US got involved in the war was a bit different in the theaters the US was involved in.
Besides, it's not like cavalry was useless during the first world war. Geographically, most of it wasn't even trench warfare in a superlative sense. And horses in general were the main military 'vehicle' in the German military even during the whole of World War II.
Basically, even though hindsight is 20/20, giggling at the idea is a bit of an overreaction.
....the US army kept cavalry units until 1944, so the surprise didn't register
....the polish cavalry were equipped with anti-tank guns and sabres, would you believe, up until 1939
jethro035181 Just as an addendum to Polish cavalry: the idea of the Polish military being primarily cavalry-based during the Invasion of Poland is largely a masterful stroke of German misinformation, which is further evidenced by the fact that the misconception has stuck through the times.
If you can get your hands on a Polish officer's handbook/manual/whatever (and someone to translate it), they provide some pretty cool insight into Polish cavalry tactics of the interwar period.
DetachTheMind ....the polish military wasn't cavalry based, obviously, but the cavalry was considered the most important and prestigious
arm....there are still very large, ceremonial, government supported, cavalry units in the polish army today.
....i don't need any cool insights into their tactics, 'cause my great uncle was in their cavalry, and had nothing but contempt for 'em and poland as a whole....it wasn't german propaganda
Though I want it, I am sure the price for that is going to be though the roof, ha.
Can you find a Krag Jørgensen please?
he has a video for it
+kanalgrävare oh sorry I'll go find it
I’ve actually shot one of these !!!!