Test Article Photos of MARSOC Winning Colt Rail Guns - Soldier Systems
Got to wonder what other guns it beat out and why?
I am a huge fan of 1911's, I am not a polymer gun hater, some I like some I don't.
At $1875 per pistol that is a lot of money.
The FBI SWAT HRT went with a custom built Springfield, those guns went to shooters. The marines are only ordering 12k of these, there are over 200,000 thousand marines. These guns are going to shooters
First time I meet a Marine like that ^, I'll eat a booger!!
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ther slide is weak in that area and is the part that impacts on the rearward movement of the slideAfter looking at those pics more carefully, I'm convinced that the damage is from a KB. Nothing else can explain how/why the frame is damaged the way it is.
ther slide is weak in that area and is the part that impacts on the rearward movement of the slide
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-YdEGWEX4LM
the slide is also the weakest right at the point because it is where it is cut for the plunger tube tunnel, add to it the front serrations.
the gun beat it self up from weak springs.....put a 15# main and 9# recoil spring in one and fire 1k of +P's......it's the same effect....
Maybe on the slide, but not the frame. That frame damage came from something far greater.
i don't think so...seen a 460 Rowland that didn't have a brake and to weak of springs do the same to a frame...
The recoil spring tunnel on the slide never comes in contact with the frame dust cover. How in the world would recoil then splay the dust cover. Particularly that thick dust cover?
i would say it was from the spring over coilin' from the slide over travelin' from weak spring....i'm just guessin' from pic's.....would be able to tell if it was in my hand....
Look at where the crack starts, it is right where the edge of the light rail is. That is a weak point, any sharp edge like that is a spot where cracks can start. Could be a number of reasons and who knows how many rounds it took to do that.
I know a few people that have had cracked slides in the same spot in those pictures in hand fitted highly tuned custom guns.
The spring does not become solid from recoil. The slide bottoms out on the end of the frame rails before the spring becomes solid. Even when people put a GM spring in a commander and do not cut them down enough, they simply break the barrel bushing.
the spring is over coiling...which is when the spring coils go over each other from being smashed swelling on the guide rod....
if there is still enough spring that didn't over coil plus the opening of the dust it would go back in battery......i don't build them for a livin' just been messin' with them for 30+ years.........it just looks like the one a friend of a friend brought me to look at that had the 460 Rowland barrel in it that was beat up like the test gun with 12k+ ran threw it with out spring change.....
Interesting. If they were using a traditional spring plug and the coils overlapped and then the slide jammed back into the frame. Maybe the frame damage came from them trying to pry them apart??? But I can't imagine these guns not coming with a full guide rod.
Fun talk guys!!!!