Another quiz for gun nuts

[ozark]

ANOTHER QUIZ FOR THE GUN NUTS
I don’t provide answers to the questions because I believe that learning the answers from the internet is better than simply being fed the answers:
1. Why is it considered dangerous to shoot sharp pointed bullets in the Model 94 Winchester and similar lever action tubular magazines
2. The 1903 Springfield bolt action rifle used in WW1 and for awhile in WW2 was built on what design? As a side note some had one, some had two and some had four lands and groves.
3. Why did the 1911 45 Cal. Pistol have lands and groves that were counterclockwise?
4. Smith and Wesson are well known firearms. Daniel was Wesson’s first name. What was the first name of Mr. Smith?
5. In the 2 ¾ chambered shotguns shells commonly held 9 size 00 Buck shots. When they went to 3 and 3 ½ Inch chambers were more 00 Buck shot loaded into the shells?
6. What country invented gun powder?
7. Grip safety, safety lock, disconnecter and Half c-o-c-k-e-d. Which military firearm has these four safety features?
8. Thirty grains of smokeless powder in a .30 caliber was called what rifle?
9. The term Magnum was first use to designate a wine bottle that held more wine. In firearms it means the case will hold more powder. Like the .22 Mag. Has a longer casing. True False
10. A famous American General in World War II wore a pair of pearl handle pistols. Who was this General?

[jims]

1. A sharp point could upon recoil hit the primer of the shell in front of it in the magazine tube and set it off.
2. Mauser
3. A guess here, so it would not loosen in shooting with the bushing.
4. Horace
5. I have seen ads where there were I think about 15 in the 3 inch and 18 in the 3 1/2 I thought.
6. China for rockets, fireworks
7. 1911? I do not own or shoot one or a guess the Beretta 9mm
8. 30/30
9. The .22 mag is longer, many magnums have belted cases and are not necessarily longer but certainly hold more powder
10. Gen Patton These are guesses to some degree and I may well be wrong on some.
In your last post you talked about Annie Oakley. She was born just down the road from where I live, I have visited her grave site. Her maiden name was Phobe Ann Mozee or Mosey. Later she married Frank Butler and they toured/shot together. She was born in Darke County, Ohio near Brock, Ohio.

[ozark]

You did good jims but I don't grade responders. If you folks enjoys these quizs help me out and send me some questions to put in future quizes. Especially qusestions that might address a specific area like reloading, wildcat rifles that became standards. etc. PM me your questions and I will include them in my next quiz. I believe these quizes are a learning tool. Ozark.

[jims]

10. I answered Gen. Patton but the more I thought about it I thought the grips on his gun may have been ivory. Unsure for sure.

[younghunter86]

Ozark-

I enjoy these quizes much better than any quiz a professor has given me! Maybe it's because they're not graded. ;D I will try to think of a question today and get it sent.

[rossman40]

I think Patton's response to a article that the reporter described his pistols as pearl handled was "Only a New Orleans pimp or a tin-horn gambler would carry a pearl-handled pistol". In the movie it was stretched to "They're ivory. Only a pimp from a cheap New Orleans whorehouse would carry a pearl-handled pistol". Normally when somebody would mention pearl handles in his presence he would immediately correct them, "THEIR IVORY-GOD-F*&%ING-D#@n-HANDLED".

Most of his pistols did have ivory handles, his most famous was the 1873 Colt SA and his S&W Mod 27 .357 Mag (both of these are at the Patton Museum, Ft. Knox). His favorite pocket pistol was a Colt 1908 .380 (which was issued to generals) that had black grips with ivory star inlays. Early in WW2 while still in the states he wore a 1911 with ivory grips ( there was a picture of him with it at Ft Benning that was taken while training there in like 1942).

[ozark]

My mistake, Pattons grips were Ivory. Actually, he was an excellent shot with pistols and rifles.

[petev]

More pistol trivia- in an interview Patton's son said while some of the smaller details in the movie were right, the scene where he shot his pistols at attacking planes was all Hollywood.

[Buckrub]

Pete, of COURSE it was made up! If he had really done it, he'd have HIT THEM!!!

[tcmech]

#7 Browning HiPower?

[rossman40]

The Browning HP has a thumb safety, half-cock notch, firing pin block and a magazine disconnect. First thing you do with one is have the magazine disconnect removed and sometimes have the spring bobbed and stretched to get a decent trigger pull.

To be more exact the 1911 has a thumb safety, half-cock notch, grip safety and a sear disconnect. The sear disconnect mainly prevents the hammer dropping when the slide is out of battery. Starting with the series 80 Colt and then other manufacturers added a firing pin block.