You'll put your eye out, lesson learned

[marksiwel]

Man if only John Browning had designed a better gun that was easier to take apart

[Carry Big Stick]

That maybe but all I need to do using no tools is to take my M&P apart and put it all in an ultra-sonic bath to clean it. No need to detail strip it! Same with the Glocks.

not trying to wonder off topic to much, but I have never heard of putting a glock in an ultra-sonic cleaner. How well does it work? To get back on topic I haven't lost any parts on my Glock because there are only 4 parts in a field strip now some of my other guns parts have never been found..

[TexasGal]

I spent a good 30min last Saturday looking for a launched 1911 bushing, it wan't the first time, and it probably won't be the last...

Great! Now we're going to have to listen to a buncha twaddle from the Glock Guys about how their ugly blocks of stamped steel don't need bushing wrenches, and how JBM sits at Gaston Glock's feet, and how that simplicity is worth the hole in their leg, yada yada yada ad infinitum.

Springfield XD

[quidni]

I've used a large trash bag over the pistol at times when I'm disassembling one with an "Australian Spring" (that's one that likes to go walkabout).

[SQLGeek]

Sorry to revive a slightly old topic but I nearly learned this the hard way one day while cleaning my M-1. I figured out that the M10 tool could be used to disassemble the bolt, so being the inquisitive type, I figured why not? The next thing I know the extractor is flying one direction, the firing pin in the other and I'm left holding the bolt.

Well maybe I didn't necessarily learn because I was cleaning my M59 last week and managed to shoot the firing pin across the room. Fortunately my wife wasn't home or she might've taken my gun away from me.

Is it any surprise I'd take things apart as a kid "just because"?

[The Annoyed Man]

Is it any surprise I'd take things apart as a kid "just because"?

I would expect that of anyone with the handle SQLGeek... ...although make mine "mySQLGeek" .

[The Annoyed Man]

You're right, you don't need any tools to field strip your Glock. But you do need to make sure you have a battle dressing and a tourniquet on hand before you attempt reholstering.

The devil made me do it. Don't hate the player, hate the game.

Nope, you just need to engage the safety. The cognitive safety. The one that keeps your finger off the trigger when it doesn't need to be there!

But, if you don't think you have enough intelligence to handle that, then you just keep on carrying your nickel plated sissy pistol and trust your life to a mechanical safety device.

Oh no you dint! I just saw this. AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAAAA!!!!

[SQLGeek]

Is it any surprise I'd take things apart as a kid "just because"?

I would expect that of anyone with the handle SQLGeek... ...although make mine "mySQLGeek" .

I can respect that. Pleased to meet you.

Slight clarification on my M-1 bolt disassembly. The firing pin didn't go flying, just the extractor. But boy did the extractor fly a good distance. That little plunger was not easy to find.

[NcongruNt]

Man if only John Browning had designed a better gun that was easier to take apart

Yep. I keep seeing all these threads about field stripping, flying springs and tools and pulling triggers, and think to myself, "I don't have any of those problems..."

[Bob Landry]

Check out Dave Dawson's Toolless Guide Rod. It's the greatest thing since crushed ice. I have them on all of my 1911s. He only makes them for Govt size models, but I'm ragging on him to make them for Commanders..

[davidtx]

Check out Dave Dawson's Toolless Guide Rod. It's the greatest thing since crushed ice. I have them on all of my 1911s. He only makes them for Govt size models, but I'm ragging on him to make them for Commanders..

Would that be one of the first two items on this page? http://www.dawsonprecision.com/Category ... GUIDE+RODS