{"id":68786,"date":"2023-09-02T05:06:27","date_gmt":"2023-09-02T10:06:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/?p=68786"},"modified":"2023-09-02T05:07:13","modified_gmt":"2023-09-02T10:07:13","slug":"know-your-weapons-brownings-hammerless-1911","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/2023\/09\/02\/know-your-weapons-brownings-hammerless-1911\/","title":{"rendered":"Know Your Weapons: Browning&#8217;s Hammerless 1911"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-68787 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/1911.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"768\" height=\"473\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/1911.jpg 768w, https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/1911-300x185.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/h1>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thefirearmblog.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/01\/john-brownings-hammerless-1911\/\">John Browning\u2019s Hammerless\u00a01911<\/a><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>Last year I had the opportunity to visit the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ogdencity.com\/1333\/Browning-at-its-Core-Ongoing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">John M. Browning Museum<\/a>\u00a0in Ogden, Utah and I was thrilled to see Browning\u2019s\u00a0<em>hammerless<\/em>\u00a01911 prototype on display. Very little has been written about the development of this particular pistol. The pistol is briefly mentioned in John Browning and Curt Gentry\u2019s 1964 biography of John M. Browning,\u00a0explaining that during the US Army\u2019s long process to select a new service pistol John M. Browning decided to provide two versions of his .45 ACP pistol \u2013 one with an exposed hammer and the other with a shrouded hammer similar to that seen on his Colt 1903 and 1908 Pocket Hammerless commercial pistols.<\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thefirearmblog.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/01\/john-brownings-hammerless-1911\/\">RTWT \u27a1\ufe0f<\/a><\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Browning\u2019s Hammerless\u00a01911 &nbsp; Last year I had the opportunity to visit the\u00a0John M. Browning Museum\u00a0in Ogden, Utah and I was thrilled to see Browning\u2019s\u00a0hammerless\u00a01911 prototype on display. Very little has been written about the development of this particular pistol. The pistol is briefly mentioned in John Browning and Curt Gentry\u2019s 1964 biography of John&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[3786,5445,13890,6199,6133,981,475,6135,5754,24],"tags":[8579,13838,16395,16222,13783,8482,14806],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68786"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68786"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68786\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68789,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68786\/revisions\/68789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}