Recent content by Fastbolt

This is from the original Tech Data Package that was available online for a while ...

Ammunition is a critical factor to consider when thinking about normal wear & tear on a pistol. 'Hotter' loads that increase slide velocity can affect things. I got over being interested in buffers in the 90's, when I saw how chewed up some of them could become, and how the chewed up bits &...

How many rounds were typically involved when the frames cracked? My own early-production 4013TSW has maybe 4K on it, as I sidelined it for several years when shooting other .40's, including an issued 4013TSW. I only had the issued one for maybe a year, during which time it was only used for a...

Thanks. I wasn't involved in our orders, but if I'd been involved I'd have pushed for the 4513TSW, 4013TSW and 3913TSW runs to have come without those chintzy aluminum rails. Turned out S&W offered to change the riveted rails to the machined rails half way through the runs of the 4006TSW &...

When we were getting our last batch of .40 & .45 TSW's in the later 2000's, were told that the integral machined rails were available on any of the full-size models, since they were considered 'duty' guns, but not yet on compacts. Never heard if they did any of them on compacts. The smith for...

I was issued a leather double dump pouch like you show. I had to go out and buy a speedloader carrier (and speedloaders) on my own dime. (I occasionally used the double dump pouch for speedstrips.) At that time a lot of the older guys & gals wore Buscadero gun belts, and the belt loop styles...

Based upon what I saw over the years when our guys & gals were using 3rd gen guns, I wouldn't be surprised to learn the firing pin channel and its spring might've required some de-gunking.

FWIW, in the S&W SW1911 pistol armorer manual, the probable causes of Hammer Falls (Does Not Stay Cocked): *Sear spring is exerting inadequate tension on sear *Hammer notch worn or damaged *Sear worn or damaged *Disconnector worn or damaged Another avenue for inspection and correction might be...

Good place to start and a relatively simple correction (if you know what you're doing). Of course, an inspection by a smith familiar with 1911's is also a good idea. Who knows with a used gun if someone fooled around under the hood and ruined something.

That's actually a decent price for the assembly. The last Parts List I downloaded from the factory was in 2013, and the retail cost then was $39.60 (armorers only got a 26% discount). Blackened stainless MIM at that time, from what they told me.

Folks have different ideas regarding training and practice, which is fine. Over the years I came to start my range sessions (when working the range) with a cold drill. Sometimes it was with a duty weapon, and sometimes it was with whatever off-duty weapon I'd brought along. I made that...

Early 20th? Was it a Western? Back when revolvers might be carried with an empty charge hole under the hammer, especially single actions? In the waning days of service revolvers, when I came on, it was a common policy that uniform cops carry 12 spare rounds (and plainclothes cops might only...

Violent criminals, doing what violent criminals do. The customer in the store who tried to conceal himself was apparently shot at extremely close range. The news articles I saw didn't indicate whether the deceased customer was armed (it's AZ, right?), but it would seem not...

Why can't I Edit a post I recently made? In this sentence ... ... the word 'none' ought to be 'one'.

Congrats on a good cleaning reportedly resolving your problem. Yeah, bad enough fouling can create a Skips-DA condition. Especially if the nasty fouling involves the disconnector and its area in the frame. Depending on the age of the gun, and the age of the armorer manuals, none can find No...