Previously introduced the American gun designer Browning in the early twentieth century designed three compact pistols, namely, M1900 (gun brand pick), M1903 (horse brand pick) and M1910 (flower mouth pick), these three guns as police, civilian and covert front use is very suitable, but for soldiers on the front line, the front line soldiers need a shot to knock down the opponent's pistol, Previously, the Colt .38 caliber revolver equipped by U.S. soldiers in the 1899-1902 period of armed conflict between the U.S. army and the local natives of the Philippines, the actual battle showed that the Colt 0.38 inch (9MM short bullet) stopped working not big enough, and the reloading speed was too slow, for this reason, the U.S. Army decided to develop a more powerful new pistol and new bullets, hoping to knock down the stubborn enemy at close range, and this demand was naturally captured by John Moses Browning, as a gun master John Browning. Moses Browning rarely disappoints.
John Moses Browning
John Moses Browning was a master of firearms for all calibers, in 1895 Browning invented a new pistol structure design with barrel recoil working principle, and the following year Browning and his brothers established a partnership with the Colt PatentEd Arms Manufacturing Company. Browning used the newly invented pistol structure to design an automatically loaded pistol for Colt to fire .38-inch Colt pistol cartridges, which was tested by the U.S. military but was not adopted by the military for less reliability than revolvers.
.38 caliber (9 mm) Colt Cobra revolver, which was equipped in the M1911
The U.S. military did not take care of Browning but soon the face of the thing came, during the 1899-1902 period of the U.S. army and the local indigenous people in the Philippines after the armed conflict Colt 0.38 caliber revolver effect is not large enough, and the native body strong one or two shots can continue to charge, for this reason the U.S. military bid to develop .45-inch large-caliber revolvers and semi-automatic pistols as a new generation of standard pistols.
In this picture, it is not known whether the United States is the savior of the Philippines or the aggressor, note that the officer in the middle is in the hands of M1911
Browning's opportunity finally arrived, and Wave used a 15g all-armored warhead to convert a .38-inch semi-edged pistol cartridge into a .45-inch-caliber edgeless pistol cartridge, and in 1905 submitted this caliber automatic pistol to the U.S. Army for evaluation.
The third number on the right is the .45 caliber bullet (small fat mound)
Browning's prototype gun participated in the most brutal test since the founding of the United States, in which each gun fired 6,000 rounds, of which the pistol was cooled for 5 minutes after every 100 rounds, and the pistol was simply maintained and oiled after each 1,000 rounds. After firing the 6,000 rounds, the pistols were tested with some poorly assembled cartridges, and then the guns were immersed in water oozing with acid or sand and sludge until the surface rusted, and then more shooting tests were carried out, and in such a brutal test, Browning's sample gun persisted and won the approval of the U.S. military jury.
On March 29, 1911, the 0.45-inch automatic pistol designed by Browning and produced by Colt was selected as the standard weapon of the U.S. Army and officially designated the Colt M1911-0.45-inch automatic pistol.
The M1911 is a century-old American gun
The automatic method of the M1911 pistol is the barrel short recoil type (the imitation of the gun TT-33 also adopts this principle), and the locking method is the barrel rise and fall type. Caliber.45 inches (11.43 mm), full gun weight (excluding magazine) 1.1 kg, (including a empty magazine) 1.13 KG, full gun length 216 mm; load capacity: 7 rounds; combat rate of fire: 35 rounds per minute; single shot; insurance agency includes manual insurance, grip insurance, semi-standby insurance.
The advantage of the M1911 is due to the use of 11.43 mm large-caliber bullets, although the initial speed is reduced (247 meters per second), but the stopping force is good, especially the gun sound is very intimidating; the structure is simple and easy to maintain; the manual safety button is designed to be of a good size and is not easy to hook when hiding in clothes and pulling the pistol. The downside may be that people with small opponents are not very friendly.
The M1911 was fired with a gun in both hands
The firing steps of the M1911 are as follows: after the bullet is fired, under the pressure of gunpowder gas or when manually loaded, the sleeve and the barrel sit back together, because the lower end of the strand is fixed to the socket seat, so its upper end rotates backwards, and after delaying unlocking, it gradually pulls the barrel tail end down and unlocks. When the sleeve re-enters the chamber, push the barrel back into place to continue with the next shot.
The most legendary scene of M1911 is that Lieutenant Owen Bergt, the co-pilot of the B24 bomber during World War II, shot down a Japanese one fighter with 4 guns with the M1911 with 4 guns during the plane being shot down and parachuted, and Irving, although he was not sure that he was imprisoned by Japan after landing, confirmed through his memories that he did shoot down the Type I fighter (some said to be Zero fighters, some said to be Japanese Type I fighters).
Lieutenant Owen Bergett
The M1911 is an improved version of the M1911A1 improved in 1926, the M1911A1 is a self-defense weapon (various variants) that is still equipped in the United States, and the M1911 is mostly collectible.
U.S. President George W. Bush's M1911 Collection
The TT-33 pistol born after the success of the Soviet Union's imitation of M1911 in 1933 is the predecessor of the Chinese May 1st pistol and the May Fourth pistol, and China also has a direct imitation of M1911, which began to enter the European and American civilian weapons market in the 1980s and 1990s, including the imitation M1911 pistol, which received favor from Europe and the United States with the M1911 of Northern Industry.
Chinese version, M1911