[J.M.N.]

http://www.sniperworld.com/1911_animation.html

[Mad Man]

That is great!!!!!!

I've been trying to explain to a new shooter how the rear movement of the slide cocks the hammer, making the following shots single action.

Obviously, this is not something that's easy to demonstrate outside of the range. And even then, everything is moving too fast to see.

I think that animation would help alot.


Information like that is something we may take for granted. But it's easy to forget how confusing (and intimidating) guns can be to a newbie -- especially given the amount of misinformation and opinions out there. And despite the best efforts of instructors (both formal and informal), many explanations we offer are C.O.I.K. ("Clear Only If Known").



A few years back, there was an interactive program called "Safety On (http://www.safetyon.com)" which had some useful animations. But the program uses Quick Time (http://www.apple.com/quicktime/) for many of the animations -- not a problem itself, but it keeps trying to install Quick Time version 2 over newer versions (currently version 6.5).

http://www.safetyon.com/images/siganim.gif http://www.gunsoft.com/images/bulletanim.GIF



[tangental rant deleted, but see below]



UPDATE: For those of you checking out the animation, if you click on the lilttle squares to the left, it will either hide or reveal various parts of the 1911.



PS - Here is an example of the C.O.I.K. principle -- something which is not limited to the shooting community -- from "Why Can't People Follow Simple Instructions (http://www.chiroweb.com/archives/09/18/01.html)"


A popular myth maintains that people who know how to do things are able to teach others. Not true. A quantum leap exists between knowing and doing. Intellectually understanding something does not guarantee its successful performance. Think back to your days in chiropractic college; who taught you technique? Was the best adjuster in the department necessarily the best teacher?

Whether instructions are written or spoken, the prime objective should always be effective communication. Only when the meaning intended by the sender is the same as that inferred by the receiver can communication be deemed effective. Perhaps the most common cause of a breakdown in communication is traceable to the principle, "Clear Only If Known" (COIK). To illustrate, imagine yourself teaching someone how to drive a car. You tell the novice driver, "Start 'er up." Because you already know how to drive, you're thinking in large units; the student is thinking in small units. The command, "Start 'er up" has a very limited meaning. Your command assumes the student knows where the ignition is, how to insert the key, which way to turn the key, where the accelerator is, and how hard to press it. Each of these procedures is clear only if known.


I think C.O.I.K. is a huge problem within the shooting community, but that's a topic for another thread.

[Thumper]

Awesome. Very helpful visual aid.

[Mad Man]

The animation has temporarly been removed from that web site.

But here's the file (~ 90 KB)


[file removed at the request of JMN]

[J.M.N.]

Please, pretty please, do not distribute the file. It will be available again in the future, but distributing it will ruin the talks with the company interested in it. It was a huge job to make it I would hate it to go to waste.

the animator himself

Thank you MadMan! I really appreciate it.

[Mad Man]

Sorry about that.

I thought it had been removed due to technical and/or bandwidth problems. I really believe that this is an awesome piece of work that needs to be distributed very widely.




http://thehighroad.org/showthread.php?s=&threadid=109141

Action Types... Semi-Auto Handguns

I'm new to the gun world, and still am unclear on the concept of how action works in a gun. In fact, after trying to read an explaination of it online, I still found myself with more questions in my head than before.



If a picture is worth 1,000 words, then an animation like that is worth 1,000,000.

[stormyone]

I saw a cool animation on howstuffworks.com showing the action of the slide and how it works. Maybe its still there? It was a year or so ago.