Both Garand Thumb and Wilson Combat put out new videos today. I watched them over lunch.
Garand Thumb: This one was mostly funny. He was testing a Hi-Point carbine, the "worst gun he has ever shot". I was cracking up every time he pulled the trigger and nothing happened (well, except for a NSFW language warning).
Hi-Point actually provided the gun, but man, he DID NOT hold back on it. I bet some executives at Hi-Point are yelling at somebody today for letting that carbine leave their factory.
https://youtu.be/RLwhU5s86sUWilson Combat on, "Why carry a 1911?", asking if the 1911 is still a viable carry gun today (yes, of course it is sez I!).
What caught my attention in this video was when they were talking about retention from bad guys. Massad brought up an interesting anecdote regarding people's ability to operate a cocked and locked 1911 if they weren't familiar with them. He said that a test was done using people unfamiliar with a revolver and a 1911. Timed, they had to pick the gun up off a table and get a shot off. With the revolver, the average time was like two seconds. With the cocked and locked 1911, EIGHTEEN seconds. I couldn't believe that, and if it were someone other than Massad Ayoob, I might call them a liar.
The analog they gave, was to me, something similar to carjackers confronted with a stick shift. It might be that we're getting to a time when striker fire guns are so ubiquitous and 1911s so little used that like the carjacker, a bad guy trying to take your 1911 might get discombobulated figuring out how to use it against you. Massad also mentioned a neat trick regarding the thumb safety when the gun is out of battery due to pressure on the front of the barrel (near the end of the video).
https://youtu.be/GPC0mmKlBrEAnyway, I found them both to be interesting viewing.
