{"id":22747,"date":"2011-03-29T11:13:50","date_gmt":"2011-03-29T15:13:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=22747"},"modified":"2011-03-29T11:13:50","modified_gmt":"2011-03-29T15:13:50","slug":"happy-birthday-m1911","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=22747","title":{"rendered":"Happy birthday, M1911"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/M1911_pistol.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-22748\" title=\"M1911_pistol\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/M1911_pistol.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A hundred years ago today, the John Browning-designed pistol was adopted by the US Army as it&#8217;s standard side arm which lasted until 1985 when they foolishly dumped it for the 9mm Beretta. I carried my own Colt Combat Commander in Desert Storm, a shorter version of the M1911. Everyone I know has an M1911 somewhere in their collection. It takes some practice to get accurate with it, but it&#8217;s as reliable as any other weapon.<\/p>\n<p>I shot on the XVIIIth Airborne Corps Pistol team for several months and we all used any old arms room .45 &#8211; after a few rounds, we were shooting over 800 points on a 900-point target. I just taught my daughter how to shoot with the .45 this last weekend (but she liked the Ruger Super Blackhawk).<\/p>\n<p>I think it&#8217;s reasonable to credit John Browning, as COB6 once said, as being the most deadly man in history. He&#8217;s been sending America&#8217;s enemies to their makers for a hundred years now. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A hundred years ago today, the John Browning-designed pistol was adopted by the US Army as &hellip; <a title=\"Happy birthday, M1911\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=22747\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Happy birthday, M1911<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[156],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-guns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22747","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22747"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22747\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}