The GI .45: a Classic Single Action Only
The development and combat history of the GI .45 (and its clones) has been exhaustively addressed…
Triggers I’ve Known
In my office, I had the duty belts I’d worn over the years hanging vertically on a wall. They were in chronological order. The display was trapezoidal. It was level across the top, but slanted on the bottom. For some reason, the gun belts got longer as I got older.
This Category is more than just a handgun memoir. Although I occasionally wax nostalgic, it focuses on the different types of triggers on duty handguns I have carried, starting with the Double Actions (DAs):
Selective Double / Singles (DA/SAs)
Double to Singles (DA->SAs, or DA to SAs)
Double Action Onlys (DAOs), and
Double Action Kellermans (DAKs)
We discuss their advantages and disadvantages, along with some lessons I have learned about manipulating them effectively.
Remember, “Guns don’t kill people. Sight alignment and trigger control kills people.”
If you wish to learn about these in roughly chronological order, you should start from the bottom of this Category and work your way up.
Heckler & Koch P9S DA to SA
This article explains the Double Action to Single Action auto pistol trigger concept. It also gives…
The Smiths
This article discusses firing techniques, methods of manipulation, historical data, little-known esoterica, and some few memories…
The Evolution of Different Trigger Types
This article examines how American military close-combat at the end of the 19th through the first…