Comments by "R" (@rdrrr) on "The Armourer's Bench" channel.

Yep, just like the older models of Beretta DA/SA pistols (e.g. the 92BB) can be carried cocked-and-locked. It does of course mean that if you do want to carry it with the hammer decocked then you've got to do it "manually", which can be done safely but requires you to pay attention to what you're doing and keep a firm grip on the hammer with your thumb as you slowly pull the trigger.
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That was a Vickers gun chambered in .303 Brit. The gun and the round were obsolete and the testers were told to shoot the entire supply. 1 millions rounds later and the Vickers was perfectly functional - still in spec, even! There was a mountain of heaped brass by the Vickers, too. Imagine 1 million spent casings...
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@kanrakucheese One of the reasons the TT-33 was replaced by the PM is conscripts had a tendency to ND when reholstering SAO + no safety + conscription-based army = 💀
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Sleeping with a single action pistol with no mechanical safety. Spicy.
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If I remember right the Steyr GB magazine is like this. You can load it just like a rifle magazine. The Steyr GB is a very cool pistol. Steyr were very surprised when it lost in trials to a pistol made by a guy who's prior experience was tupperware and farm equipment.
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Personally if I carry a .45 it's gonna be a S&W 4506 or a Glock 21. Maybe a Ruger P-series if I couldn't find one of the other two. The 1911 is a little too complicated to disassemble and clean and the 8-shot magazine is a little small. The 1911 does have a really nice trigger, though. And, although this doesn't count for much in a fight, the 1911 is one of the most beautiful pistols ever made.
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@ericmckinley7985 Most pistols are still Browning tilting-barrel designs but in my opinion that system will decrease in popularity and be replaced in the next two decades. Already most competition pistols do not use this operation principle because it limits accuracy. My favourite pistols designed are gas-delayed-blowback, like the sadly neglected HK P7.
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I would expect the Beretta 92FS to perform better in dust/mud situations because of its open-slide design. The Beretta almost never suffers from failure-to-eject ("stovepipe") malfunctions. On the other hand maybe the open-slide design would mean more mud or dust can get into the action. The 92 is actually an evolution of the Walther P38. Think of it as a prettier P38 with a smoother, lighter DA trigger pull and a double-stack magazine. Meanwhile the Grach reminds me of a Browning BDM.
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 @ericmckinley7985 Does it use two swinging links to tilt the barrel, or just one?
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@corvoattano4777 Double-to-single action pistols like the Makarov (PM) are also safer to operate. Cheap in Russia, but maybe not cheap if you are from former Yugo. M57 is everywhere, I don't think SFRJ ever made a Makarov copy.
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@corvoattano4777 Haha okay I won't try and guess, Asia's a big continent 😅
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Nah, the 1911 is a real pain to field strip and clean. Fiddly, easy to lose small parts. And the swinging link locking the barrel is very old-school, modern Browning designs do away with it as it's a potential point of failure. The 1911 remains a fine handgun but time marches on and there are better options. But then I prefer the M9 to the M17 so I can see where you're coming from.
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@travistucker1033 Yep. It takes a lot of practice to shoot a pistol accurately, and there isn't time to teach recruits to do so - they've got a lot of other, more important things to learn in the training time available. As a result the average soldier is gonna struggle to hit anything with a pistol at distances greater than 10-15 yards. Meanwhile the same soldier will easily make hits at 100-200 yards with a carbine. I can hit targets from 50 yards away on a range... but the targets aren't moving, I'm calm, relaxed, I've had a good night's sleep, and I'm not being shot at. Take those variables away and I'd probably be shooting all over the place.
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