Bill Wilson and Ken Hackathorn talk 1911’s
I grew up reading gun magazines, which means that my formative years were plastered with gun magazine layouts featuring 1911 pistols that, frankly, bordered on ...
Category: 1911
Area 3 Stage Photo: Don’t lose your shirt
I finished 3rd on this stage, and like I did on most of the stages, shot pretty good points.
Photo of the day: Run and gun
From the 2013 Great Plains Sectional. I particularly like this photo, because it illustrates one of my favorite things about the excellent Colt CCG: No full len...
Photo of the day: Short Targets
Most of the shooters had to aim a lot lower than me to hit this target. #selfburn
The Colt Report #6
Since our last entry on 7/1, I’ve put an additional 838 rounds through #440 as well as making some parts changes and repairs. I fired 425 rounds of Freedo...
Photo of the day: King of the feedway stoppage
“The 1911 forces the cartridge to ‘jump’ a greater distance from the magazine to the chamber in order to feed than any modern service pistol i...
The Colt Report #5: Shooting again
Since Bianchi Cup, I’ve not had a lot of range time. The business of GunUp and Gun Nuts has predictably intruded on my ability to put rounds through the C...
Photo of the day: Muzzle flash
Cool shot by Shelley Rae from yesterday’s practice session.