Commercial Colt Officers' pistols are similar to Defenders. Many Mpatterned pistols are custom built for service duty, sport shooting, and self defense. The M is a short-recoil operated, locked breech, semi-automatic pistol. It has a single action trigger with a frame-mounted manual safety that locks the sear to the hammer as well as preventing slide movement when engaged.
The manual thumb safety may be engaged only when the hammer is fully back. An additional "grip" safety is incorporated into the rear of the grip that locks the trigger when the gun is not held in the hand properly.
The barrel and slide are interlocked via lugs on the upper part of the barrel, just ahead of the chamber. After firing, the barrel and slide recoil for a short distance, before the rear part of the barrel is lowered by a tilting link that separates the barrel from the slide.
The slide continues back, extracting and ejecting the spent case, compressing a recoil spring located under the barrel, and cocking the hammer. The recoil spring then returns the slide and barrel to battery, chambering a new round on the way back. When the magazine is empty, the magazine follower activates the slide stop, locking the slide in the open rear position.
The gun is fed from a single stack, seven-round magazine. The magazine release button is located on the left side of the frame, just behind the trigger guard. Eight-round magazines are also available for the M, and some variants offer "double-stack" magazines that hold 14 rounds. Recoil operation is based on the law of conservation of momentum Newton's Third Law, commonly paraphrased as "every action has an equal but opposite reaction".
Description This is an original Colt M Hartford, CT, U. While the Colt is officially listed as beginning service in , the model originated in the late s prior to undergoing modifications. One can identify this gun as the original model due to the wider trigger, diamond design around the screws on the handle, and the angle at which the loading mechanism rests. By the beginning of WW1, more than 68, pistols were in service and the huge demand for the new pistol led to contracts being granted to other manufacturers as well.
The pistol performed so well during WW1 that there were no huge changes made to its design. Some external changes were made to make the pistol easier to shoot for soldiers with smaller hands and the sights were slightly altered, but the core mechanics of the pistol remained the same. Accordingly, all the s produced to this date have interchangeable parts. WW2 saw another huge expansion in demand for the During the war, some 1.
The wooden grip was replaced with a plastic one to save money, but apart from this the pistol retained its original design. Despite already being 30 years old, the was still one of the best handguns available during WW2, and won many converts. British Commando Troops used them in preference over their standard issue weapons, as did South African Special Forces.
Following WW2, the continued in service for years to come. While the Punitive Expedition ultimately failed to capture Villa, it did provide the first major combat test of a number of new military technologies such as the airplane, wireless telegraph, motorized truck transport and the M pistol. American forces, again under the command of General Pershing, joined with Canadian, French and British troops to push back German forces on the Western Front.
In all more than a million US troops served in this worldwide conflict. WW I, as the Great War soon came to be known, proved a brutal face-off between new weapons and outmoded tactics. Much of the ground combat on the Western Front was conducted as trench warfare, in which small-unit raiding and close quarters combat were common tactics. The Model proved more than equal to the task, and the powerful pistol quickly became a favorite of American servicemen.
During one legendary engagement Sergeant Alvin York used a Model pistol to stop an attack by six German soldiers with as many shots, in the process winning the Medal of Honor.
Other new weapons that emerged from the WW I conflict included tanks, fighter aircraft, rapid-firing artillery, machine guns, poison gas and submarines. The post-war era saw subtle refinements to the basic Model design, including the addition of improved sights, an arched mainspring housing, shorter trigger, longer grip safety spur and other ergonomic improvements.
Collectively these improvements were completed in and resulted in the Model A1. Not long after those modifications were formalized, John M. As the United States began to emerge as a major world military power, the Model saw combat service in a number of different conflicts, including many small brushfire actions in the Caribbean, South and Central America.
These interventions were considered necessary to provide political, social and economic stability to the region and were sometimes called the Banana Wars. During this era the Model also became a favorite sidearm of law enforcement officers nationwide, first in. Among the more notable law enforcement users of the were members of the Texas Rangers, as well as federal agents of the Border Patrol, Prohibition Service and the FBI.
The conflict represented the largest war mobilization in US history, with more than 16 million American men and women serving in the armed forces in every theater of the conflict. The Model was the standard sidearm for almost all US military forces fighting on the ground, at sea and in the air. Total military production of the Model was nearly 3 million pistols. Combined with the millions of Browning machine guns and BARs produced over the decades, it is easy to see that the guns designed by John M.
Browning played a major role in defending freedom and crushing tyranny. The Model continued to serve with distinction at the side of American servicemen for most of the remainder of the 20 th century including Korea, Viet Nam and other conflicts. With the end of WW II, millions of US servicemen returned from combat service around globe, eager to enjoy a new life of peace and prosperity. With that post-war prosperity came plenty of leisure time for recreation, and the shooting sports in America literally boomed!
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