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But because the 911’s frame is thinner than the 1911’s frame, the body of its catch is a bit shorter. The magazine catch is located just behind the trigger, and it is an accurate facsimile of the one on the 1911 pistol.

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Full lockup occurs when the front and rear shoulders of the square-shaped breech end of the barrel engage opposing flats at the top of the ejection port of the flat-topped slide. When later designing the Hi Power pistol, Browning replaced the link with an underlug that has a kidney-shaped cutout, which travels over the slide latch pin to move the barrel to its locked and unlocked positions. Lockup in John Browning’s 1911 is accomplished as its swiveling link bears on the crosspin of the slide latch and pushes lugs at the top of its tilting barrel into engagement with recesses in the underside of the slide. The pistol will fire with the magazine removed. Switching to the extended magazine that holds seven rounds of ammo adds about another ounce. Seven rounds of 90-grain ammo increase that to 16.2 ounces. Weight with the flush-fitting, six-round magazine is 13.9 ounces on my digital postal scale. At 0.67 inch, the 911’s frame is quite thin the G10 grip panels increase that to 0.95 inch. The frame is 7075-T6 aluminum, the same as is commonly used in the upper and lower receivers of M16 and AR-15 rifles. Both sides of the 416 stainless-steel slide are tapered to reduce weight, and the slide measures 0.80 inch at its widest point. Vital measurements: It is 4 inches tall (4.63 inches with the included extended magazine), 5.5 inches long, and 1.125 inches wide across the ambidextrous safety tabs. When sliding the upper back onto the lower during reassembly, be sure to depress and hold down the combination ejector/trigger safety lever seen here protruding upward from the frame, just above the red indicator dot of the thumb safety. When sliding the assembled upper back onto the lower, remember to depress and hold down the combination ejector/firing pin safety lever until it is cleared by the slide.įield-stripping is the same as for a Model 1911 pistol. The high, thumbs-forward grip commonly used when shooting a Model 1911 works equally well on the small 911, but things get crowded on its short grip, and reliable functioning requires keeping the thumbs from contacting the slide.

The broach-rifled barrel has a rifling twist rate of one turn in 16 inches.

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After the recoil spring and its full-length stainless-steel guide are removed from the slide, the 2.75-inch stainless-steel, no-bushing barrel is free to follow. The entire upper assembly is then free to be moved forward and off the frame. Remove the magazine, make sure the chamber is empty, ease the slide forward until a tab on the latch is aligned with the disassembly notch in the slide, and push/pull the latch from the frame. A latch at the side of the frame locks back the slide on an empty magazine. Those who own 1911 pistols will find field-stripping to be the same. The grip angle feels the same, and its controls mimic those of the larger pistol. Most obvious from a glance is that the 911 looks like a palm-sized Model 1911 pistol.

Like the Colt Mustang introduced back in the 1980s, and other “mini-1911s” brought to market by other companies since, the 911 shares some features with John Browning’s venerable Model 1911, but it also differs in several ways. In addition to being Springfield’s first subcompact single-action pistol, it is also the company’s first pistol offered in. Springfield Armory has broken new ground with its little 911 auto pistol.

Springfield 911 9mm