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From the May/June 2007 Issue
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| Fixed or Not? There can be a range of arguments about the validity of sights on firearms. Early designs used the “point the thing, turn your head and add fire” concept, generally leading to smoldering eyebrows. Sights improved as cartridge cases enclosed the flaming-face concept of shooting, and people wanted to look at what they were shooting at. The tired issue of what environment the weapon is being used in and its effects on sight acquisition is duly noted. It’s a wise owl who recognizes that a positive way to get hits on a target is to look at the bumpy thing on the front of the barrel. But which bumpy-things are best? There's more from Clint Smith in the May/June issue... • Which One? |
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A Super-Super Today the sport of practical shooting has divisions for many types of handguns: Open, Limited, Limited Ten, Production, Revolver and Single Stack handguns. Thirty years ago there were no such divisions. Through the 1980s and into the early 1990s we had the introduction of compensators, the .38 Super cartridge, multi-chamber compensators, optical sights and high-capacity frames. In those days it didn’t pay to get attached to a gun. There were real advantages to each technological innovation. If you really wanted the “winning edge” it was a matter of changing — or getting left behind — selling the old gun to help pay for the new. But some guns were too good to let go. This is the story of one such gun. Indeed, in many ways the best competition gun I’ve ever owned. I shot my first IPSC match in 1980. By then the Clark “Pin Gun” was already out, soon followed by the Plaxco compensator. These of course were 1911s in .45 ACP. I was stubborn in those days, not to mention cheap. For several years I used a stock Colt Gold Cup, winning several matches with it. The July/August 1985 American Handgunner had a pair of Wilson Accu-Comp LEs on the cover, and in the fall I competed in the U.S. Nationals. I met Bill Wilson and saw the shooters for whom the LE was named (Rob Leatham and Brian Enos) in action with their Wilson guns. There's more from Dave Anderson in the March/April issue... • Taking The Leap |
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