{"id":1710,"date":"2008-01-17T07:02:59","date_gmt":"2008-01-17T15:02:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/2008\/01\/17\/well-balanced-pistols\/"},"modified":"2008-01-17T07:02:59","modified_gmt":"2008-01-17T15:02:59","slug":"well-balanced-pistols","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/2008\/01\/17\/well-balanced-pistols\/","title":{"rendered":"Well Balanced Pistols"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Damsel took a picture recently of her <a href=\"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/2008\/01\/13\/balancing-warthog\/\">Balancing Warthog<\/a> and posted it here. Just out of curiosity, I took out the other pistols and tried the same test. The <a href=\"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/2006\/09\/24\/his-n-hers\/\">S&#038;W 908s<\/a> wouldn&#8217;t balance at all. The <a href=\"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/2007\/08\/22\/the-wait-is-over-3\/\">Glock 26<\/a> balanced just like the Warthog, without the magazine and with the slide locked back. <\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/2007\/11\/07\/report-glock-30\/\">Glock 30<\/a> wouldn&#8217;t balance until I inserted a magazine. The magazine gave it a flat bottom to rest on. The Glock 26 has a lip on the bottom front of the grip which kept the gun from falling forward like the 30 was prone to do without a magazine.<\/p>\n<p><img src='http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/01\/three-balance.jpg' alt='balancing act' \/><\/p>\n<p>Left to right, Glock 26 and <a href=\"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/2008\/01\/07\/interim-report-para-ordinance-warthog\/\">Warthog<\/a>, sans magazines, and Glock 30, magazine inserted. <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m thinking that this balancing act is possible due to the pistols having been designed for good recoil properties. Does anyone have thoughts on that?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Damsel took a picture recently of her Balancing Warthog and posted it here. Just out of curiosity, I took out the other pistols and tried the&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":190,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-firearms","category-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1710","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/190"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1710"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1710\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}