A Tale of Three Guns-Thor Range Report

[Thor]

I found out three things from firing three different weapons today. I shot Hugh's 1906 Commercial 30 Luger, Tom Norwood's 45 ACP Colt 1911 (an old one), and a Swedish Lahti. The first impression is AGAIN, what a pleasure and joy to shoot the 30 Luger, accurate and a lot of fun and the FIOCCHI Factory ammo still doesnt function them worth a flip, but my reloads were great. The second thing is the LAHTI pistol is a BLAST to fire, I love it and now I WANT ONE! What a great design. Natalie fired it and loved it too! They are a nice weapon! I can see why the Finish Soldiers liked them so much! I hate to see this one go back to it's owner!! The last is this old 45. I shoot a 45 acp H&K Compact a lot and love it, but this old gun had the HARDEST TRIGGER I have ever fired on a hand gun and my hand had to really SHOVE the grip safety to get it to disengage, not fun at all. It was okay in the accuracy department, but I have a REAL problem with a firearm that you CANNOT get a LOADED ROUND out of the chamber without firing it. THE EJECTION PORT IS TO NARROW! What is up with that? I know that Browning was a master designer but that was one bad mistake on the original design! All in all a great experience today and I WANT A LAHTI!!! ~Thor~

Gunsamerica.com has had a few up for sale recently.


R. Grady/Roadkill

[Thor]

I looked at them last night but I am broke Oh well, having a hell of a good time at my job! ~Thor~

Got anything you want to sell?

R. Grady/roadkill

[Thor]

Nope, but thanks for the offer! ~Thor~

About the 1911 45 ejection.

Browning designed this to eject at the 2 o'clock position. The ejector tension must be kept above 25 oz tension to function correctly. If it has a chamber that is rough or carboned the ejectors will jump off. On our competion 1911's in 45 acp we lower the ejectiom port approx.110 and run 30 oz of tension. Have shot over 5000 rounds without any adjustment, but do keep the chamber clean.

Neil