Is This A Better 1911? 

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yep he was the Einstein of gun designers. Nobody comes close to him.

good info i’ve never heard of the French man. Yea I’m a big fan of Browning not so much Glock.

@@craigthescott5074 If "French man" refers to Dieudonne Saive, he was not French. He was Belgian. French was, and still is, one of the three official languages spoken in Belgium still today. It was a kind of personality quirk of Browning's that he concentrated purely on the design of his gun, and didn't want to have anything to do with manufacturing. If you study Mr. Browning you will see a pattern that he actually hand built all of the prototypes of his designs, he then marketed them to a particular manufacturer such as Colt or Winchester or FN, but then it was up to them to figure out how they were going to make it. (Browning could actually make parts by hand that were impossible or uneconomical to make on the machinery of the day.) At one point Browning had licensed FN to manufacture a small blowback pistol. Dieudonne Saive was a new hire in FN’s production engineering department at the time, and was assigned the task to figure out how to make this pistol. After I studying the hand made prototype, he determined that if he slightly modified Browning's design it could then be manufactured economically, so he modified the design. Subsequently Browning himself visited FN for discussions on future work. He asked if they had that new blowback pistol in production, and they retrieved one off of the production line to show to Browning. Browning immediately picked out Saive's modifications, and asked to speak to the man who did this - Browning seemed to be offended. After Saive related his reasons for making the changes, Browning approved of them. From that point on, Browning and Saive developed a good working relationship. Later in his career, after WWII, Saive went on to design the FN FAL rifle. There are similarities in the way the bolt locks up on it that are lifted right out of the Hi Power.

@@tpelle2 Interesting, sounds like Saive doesn't get the credit he deserves

@@tpelle2 Awsome History thank you. I actually love FN products also. I own a class three copy of the FN FAL made by Springfield Armory called the SAR 48. I also love the new weapons made by FN, I personally think they may be better than HK which I also collect.

@@tpelle2 Belgium isn’t really a nation though it’s just two pieces of France and the Netherlands smashed together and referred to as one , there’s even two smaller parts of it that are German in language and ethnicity

Hes a lucky man to own both and have a wife that watchesHickok

Did you ever reach out to the CMP or post that on their 1911 forum?

@@FishKepr I wasn't aware such a thing existed. I assume it's probably part of a Toyota exhaust system by now.

@@wyomarine6341 We had to sign out our weapons from the company arms room and writing down the serial number was step one followed by your name, rank etc. It was the only weapon issued to me besides crew served weapons like the 240's and M-2. I didn't touch an M-16 until probably my third year in and that was only because we used them occasionally at a mini tank range as a stand in for the main gun.

@@tanker335 To be fair don’t get your hopes up. Lots of former soldiers have sent serial numbers to the CMP and I only know of one case where the managed to track down a dispositioned 1911. To their credit they traced who they sold it to and asked the recipient to transfer it to him. They sent another 1911 to the first buyer as a replacement. This was a few years ago. I got mine in the first round of this release, a 1943 Remington Rand with a matching slide.

@@FishKepr I'm not literally looking for it.

smuggling home the "liberated" goods was a habit from WW2 that extended thru Korea, but you're correct about getting caught. Even with the GCA'68, it wasn't worth losing an HDC in hindsight. Plenty of grandfathered guns still floating around.

Thank you for your service

There were no nazi's in ww2, members of the NSDAP never referred to themselves as that slur, nor do tea party members refer to themselves as tea baggers nor do Catholics in the Latin rite refer to themselves as papists, but guess what tribe of (goblins) came up with those slurs.

Kimber, the worst

@@hoppinggnomethe4154 Agreed

I have a Norinco that is solid

The Hi-Power is better in every way.

⁠@@samanthamalikov7157not really the 9mm was inferior to the 45 back then, bullet technology wasn’t what it is now. The 1911’s trigger is a masterpiece in its own right. Let’s put it this way there’s at least 20 manufacturers making 1911’s and. 2011’s. Very few make the High Power. And nobody shoots competition with high powers many use the 1911 and 2011’s.

@@craigthescott5074hi power is a cheaper more compact 2011. It just never had a following in the states. Wait until you tell a 2011 user they could’ve spent $500 on a hi power instead of 2,000 on an overpriced 2011. Watch their heads explode lol

@@Mitsurifan357 Actually a really good competition 2011 is more like $3500 and up. Don’t get me wrong I love everything made by the master John Browning but the high power doesn’t hold a candle to the 1911 much less a 2011. Also what makes a 1911 and 2011 great for competition is the trigger the gun can be shot very fast and very precise. The high power trigger just isn’t close.

Are you alowed to own and shoot an Enfield rifle? Those are loved by many. Though I'll say the Enfield models and variations seem more confusing than Mercedes Benz model numbers.

Yes in the UK, Bolt action rifles are still legal on a firearms certificate

I was thinking the same thing! 😂

...seems normal to me.....of course I am 6' 6"...

Came here to say this! Saw that in my feed and thought they looked like child versions

I guess when you have catcher's mitts hands it's like that.

They are toys. Really loud toys. Plus you could put somebodies eye out with em. 🇺🇸’Merica.

Remove the magazine disconnect.

Well said !!!! I agree with you .

Hickok just likes the smell of gun powder in the morning. 😂

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Sounds like a weird comment but then I remember that my wife and I have three daughters, so yep, probably smelled their hair at one time or another. I'm surprised if Hickok didn't get a headache from the fumes.

@@redtobertshateshandles But those were YOUR daughters. And smokeless powder smells good. Especially rimfire powder.

FN designed the magazine safely as a optional feature, if you don’t want the feature you (or a gunsmith) can remove it in seconds, and this makes absolutely no compromises to the safety of the weapon. (Additional the trigger pull immediately improves) 6:58 6:58

The Spanish Llama in .45ACP is based on the 1911 Colt 45

Removed. It's connected to the trigger via a roll pin. You can tell when it's been removed as it leaves a hole.

Star made a Model B and a Super B. They were both big like a Colt 45 but in 9mm Para. (9x19)

The BM is a compact. It looks like a baby 1911 without the grip safety in 9mm. All the capacity of a 1911 and disdain for hollow points with the hammer bite and magazine safety of a high power😂 sure is adorable though 😂

@@shaneboor . A friend of mine had a Star model BM. Yes, it is a compact pistol. The South African military in the 1970s had the Star either Model B of Super B as a side arm.