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    Default Never Shot a 45ACP

    Laugh it up! Anyway, there are two safetys. The grip safety and the what I will call standard safety. For the grip safety, get a good grip and have web of hand at top of backstrap (have a good standard grip, I know the drill). Semantics aside, basically I need to have a grip so that the safety is "squeezed" by my hand. Safety on slide just flip and then I shoot.

    Again, I simplify here, but is that the process? Yes I will be safe, just want to make sure before I go to the range and look like a tool.
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    Default Re: Never Shot a 45ACP

    Yes, holding the gun with a normal shooting hand position will deactivate the grip safety. Nothing special is required.

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    Default Re: Never Shot a 45ACP

    45 acp is a pleasant round to shoot out of a full size gun. A heavy push straight rearward, not a sharp slap or a jumpy muzzle. Fair warning, shoot it, you'll want one.
    Go sell crazy some where else, we're all stocked up here.


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    Default Re: Never Shot a 45ACP

    Sounds pretty good so far. BUT from semi-auto or revolver .45 ACP is actually pleasant (though not mild) to shoot given the correct firearm "stocks" and grip.


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    Default Re: Never Shot a 45ACP

    Quote Originally Posted by pacodelahoya View Post
    45 acp is a pleasant round to shoot out of a full size gun. A heavy push straight rearward, not a sharp slap or a jumpy muzzle. Fair warning, shoot it, you'll want one.

    Yes.
    Yes.
    Yes.


    And as has been said, there's nothing you need to "do" in regards to the grip safety - once you have the grip in your hand, it's pressed.
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    Default Re: Never Shot a 45ACP

    ASSuming you are talking 1911.............

    There's a third safety. When the slide is back even just a little, a trigger pull won't fire it.

    I was told the standard USGI holster holds the slide back just a skosh, rendering the deadly awful dangerous gun ...inert.

    The safety works.
    The story may be BS.
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    Be careful though when shooting a 45acp, they can go through two buildings and three engine blocks
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    Default Re: Never Shot a 45ACP

    Yes, a 1911 and thanks!
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    Default Re: Never Shot a 45ACP

    Did you buy a 1911? If so, I recommend getting a 1911 bushing wrench.
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    Default Re: Never Shot a 45ACP

    I have and I do have a tool for that.
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