peock 45 are those beautiful or what
yeah it's Memorial Day weekend and we
realized we had not done a chapter 2
with this World War II Beauty this Colt
191145 that was actually carried in the
Pacific Theater World War II so I think
pretty nice combination uh again
Memorial Day weekend and we've got one
that has been there as well as those
rifles but this one was there we know
enough of the history so that's pretty
cool World War II was the big one that's
the one that uh you know we we study so
much in school and it's one of a little
bit more clearcut right in terms of our
involvement you know lots of Wars occur
and you know sometimes we wonder why
we're there right uh the thing is though
the people who are there that are
fighting you know that's that's who we
kind of commemorate that's who we
memorialize and that's who we thank
that's who we express appreciation for
you know weekends like this right
regardless of why they were there they
were there and uh they went through it
right so anyway we thought it'd be a
good weekend to get out the old
1911 from World War II take a couple of
shots even though it has not the best
trigger but the the gun seems
mechanically sound uh you have seen me
shoot it before it is a challenge cuz
it's got a stiff trigger gritty trigger
but it's shoots watch
this what I tell you it shoots and know
someone put a garbage can
lit on the Range and uh that didn't stay
long did
it
Cowboy well I'll take that
uh I'll take that little three shot
group even though it does have a
horrible trigger okay it's uh is neat to
shoot this thing uh some people maybe
would not shoot it I don't know because
uh you know the age of early
40s although I felt like I was pretty
young my early 40s well actually that's
not correct is it so this was made in
the early 40s so that makes a 60 70
years old over 70 years old uh what are
we going to shoot and quit trying to do
math how about right
here that was a pretty slick little
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nice oh that was a bad can oh
no was my
target oh
boy uh no matter how old they are
they're still fun to shoot I have
another
magazine let's try something like oh
right here oh know that looks good we
got a Target up uh while I'm still sane
and sober Let's uh put some on that
one and we had a m oh you know what I
wasn't going to use in these modern
magazines and I sold that one I thought
well that one's you know it's it's it's
black and
uh it doesn't look so funky
maybe hope our gun's not broken
here and so I got it out to to use it
anyway so let's uh
we might have
a an issue here I might have to take it
apart let's see get that round out okay
carefully yeah it's not
uh we've never had any trouble with this
firearm so let's go over to the table
okay we're back figured out what the
problem was I thought it was the
magazine cuz I know that's one I've had
trouble with but actually what it was uh
a wrestle with a while the the plate
here the firing pin the plate over the
back had actually slid down uh over the
uh the firing pin as if I had you know
like when you're disassembling the slide
you you push the firing pin in to take
that uh out it slides downward it had
sliden down and locked up the slide I've
never seen that or had that happen with
a 45 and so I just finally saw it and
realized what it was I pushed it back up
and firing pin popped out I guess maybe
the firing pin stuck or something in a
primer I don't know and it held it
perhaps and that calls it but I'll keep
an eye on I took a couple of shots here
just to make sure it was working it
seems to be working fine so that's a new
one I've never had in 1911 do that again
uh even if the firing pin breaks or or
something like that I it can be replaced
pretty simply and so I am going to shoot
this thing going to take good care of it
but I'm going to shoot it occasionally
and uh yeah just said I feel I feel
responsible I'm a kind of a uh it is in
a way a museum piece but I'm going to
take good care of it and you know
hopefully for hundreds of years this
firearm can be kept in operation okay
people can appreciate it all right let's
uh now let's shoot that uh that Target
what I do I got a hole got a hole in it
let's put a couple
more these old GI Guns terrible trigger
terrible sights but but you know they
shoot
uh comes down to it and you had to pull
the pistol you
know well thank you hey I got two in one
in my pocket uh they would get the job
done as I was uh about to brag on it you
know on that that cowboy down there I
mean with the sights as bad as they are
and the trigger as rough as it is you
know it it uh fulfills its intended
purpose put it that
way let's put a fresh mag in
and we're not going to shoot everything
but let's go for the
gong am I feeling steady do I know where
to
hold I think I've shot this thing at the
gong
before many moons
ago I just feel like a Memorial Day
weekend we need to throw some big old 45
slugs at the gong through a vintage
World War II Colt
1911 yeah
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this is kind of our version of the 21
gun salute I guess the 1911 at the
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gong especially this one okay okay that
worked out pretty neat big old 45 slugs
I love it all right we got a couple more
mags we're not going to do like we
normally do in a chapter two we but
we'll shoot a couple more magazines what
a beautiful
thing you know just that uh that that
green that that Olive kind of green and
and I've told the story on if you're
brand new uh uh the the World War II vet
came back with this brought it back and
uh he thought he might get in trouble
and and he was trying to scratch out
there where it said us property cuz he
was afraid he'd be in trouble and uh
fortunately he didn't scratch out the
serial number we wouldn't be able to
hang on to it right so pretty neat US
Army okay there a couple more
here we got a couple of lively
uh 2 L there have not been dealt
with all right
all right thank
you oh there's
a oh here's a
pot oh we have a
malfunction just a malfunction though
that's
okay we forgive it
boom nice oh here's a two L right here
no let's not do that back up John I am
not going to do that I might shoot those
guys and I have another
magazine let's put one on
that and let's put a couple on the
tombstone
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what a beauty what a
beauty nice so anyway little chapter 2
action fall down in the gravel chapter 2
action on Memorial Day weekend with the
old warhorse
1911 uh 45 ACP uh really uh really sweet
fun to
uh
fortunately for me you know I've I've
never had to fire around in anger or uh
you know be be carted off overseas
somewhere like my dad was you know World
War II and uh my father-in-law and of
course you know tens of thousands of
others and uh so anyway we appreciate
the sacrifice all those people have made
and um that's that's tough Duty you know
uh it It's just tough Duty
man it's just but it's it's just it's
it's enjoyable to be able to own things
like this and the Gan you know the M1
carbin and live in a place where we can
do this and and you know have respect
for these firearms and continue to enjoy
them bring them out with piles of ammo
and shoot them and uh just uh just think
about you know where they've been and uh
the men generally men could be women too
but uh the men that carry these things
and uh had to to use them you know uh
offensively defensively however they did
so and then by the way we appreciate uh
speaking of piles of ammo uh you know
Federal supplying all the ammunition you
know to for us to to feed this baby so
Colt World War II
1911 uh what a beauty life is good
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