Cocked&Locked
CGN Ultra frequent flyer
- Location
- S. Ontario
Ardent said:I will defend my beloved M7 to the graveThey are actually quite simple, take one down and you'll see it operates a lot like a Glock as far as the striker mechanism, with the only difference being the grip bar cocks it rather than trigger pressure, hence the friendlier trigger pull. Straightforward spring around barrel, no linkages, no moving barrel. Gas piston holds back a straight blowback action, automatically adjusting to the pressure of the load just how long it stays in battery. Case floats on gas, and extracts and ejects normally even without an extractor; this and the gas operation sound complicated right? Actually when you have one in front of you apart, you realize just how simple it is, only a simple one piece piston fixed to the slide with a port from the throat, and maintenance free flutes in the chamber. It even dissasembles with one button. I actually see the P7 as a triumph of engineering, accomplishing so much with such simple and sensible systems. My 1911's are more complicated by a long run, easily several times more intricate.
I've had one apart and they are very well engineered and made. I hate the fluted chamber as it's hard on brass if your cheap and reload, but is needed for the design. The trigger rocks once you get used to the squeeze grip, and I'd walk a mile on broken glass to avoid a glock trigger in the first place so it's an easy sell on that point
My two fav's would have to be the mauser c-96 and the p-08 luger. For the first, tell me how they did that before the turn of the LAST century and don't even need a screw, for the latter, take it apart and look at (all!) of those pieces and the tolerences involved and tell me (as a tool and die maker) how they mass produced the D@mn thing in 1908 and held those tolerances and made money on it? Pity bout the trigger on them though, sorta squichy feeling.
