{"id":20459,"date":"2022-07-05T08:00:32","date_gmt":"2022-07-05T13:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2022\/07\/05\/ask-ian-single-feed-vs-double-feed-pistols\/"},"modified":"2022-07-05T08:00:32","modified_gmt":"2022-07-05T13:00:32","slug":"ask-ian-single-feed-vs-double-feed-pistols","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2022\/07\/05\/ask-ian-single-feed-vs-double-feed-pistols\/","title":{"rendered":"Ask Ian: Single Feed vs Double Feed Pistols"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"youtubomatic-video-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allow=\"autoplay\" width=\"580\" height=\"380\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/brVYI4-NILA?controls=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/utreon.com\/c\/forgottenweapons\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/utreon.com\/c\/forgottenweapons\/<\/a><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.patreon.com\/ForgottenWeapons\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/www.patreon.com\/ForgottenWeapons<\/a><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.floatplane.com\/channel\/ForgottenWeapons\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/www.floatplane.com\/channel\/ForgottenWeapons<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Cool Forgotten Weapons merch! <a href=\"http:\/\/shop.forgottenweapons.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/shop.forgottenweapons.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Asked by Tyler on Patreon: &#8220;Why are there so few double stack\/double feed handguns? I can only think of a couple off the top of my head. It makes the worst part of handgun shooting (loading the magazines) a complete non-issue.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>There are a series of interacting considerations when choosing between single feed and double feed. <\/p>\n<p>Single Feed:<br \/> &#8211; Magazines are less reliable; constricting from two columns to one adds friction (this is magnified as capacity increases)<br \/> &#8211; Firearms are easier to design; the cartridge is always presented in the same place<br \/> &#8211; Pistol slides may be slightly narrower<\/p>\n<p>Double Feed:<br \/> &#8211; Magazines are more reliable (also less susceptible to a bit of dirt fouling them)<br \/> &#8211; Guns are harder to design; must accommodate two different feed positions<br \/> &#8211; Guns must be a bit wider (immaterial in rifles)<\/p>\n<p>These elements taken together lead to predominantly single feed magazines in pistols and double feed magazines in rifles, although exceptions exist to both.<\/p>\n<p>Contact:<br \/>Forgotten Weapons<br \/>6281 N. Oracle 36270<br \/>Tucson, AZ 85740<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>https:\/\/utreon.com\/c\/forgottenweapons\/http:\/\/www.patreon.com\/ForgottenWeaponshttp:\/\/www.floatplane.com\/channel\/ForgottenWeapons Cool Forgotten Weapons merch! http:\/\/shop.forgottenweapons.com Asked by Tyler on Patreon: &#8220;Why are there so few double stack\/double feed handguns? I can only think of a couple off the top of my head. It makes the worst part of handgun shooting (loading the magazines) a complete non-issue.&#8221; There are a series of interacting considerations when&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2022\/07\/05\/ask-ian-single-feed-vs-double-feed-pistols\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Ask Ian: Single Feed vs Double Feed Pistols<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":20460,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[89,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-content","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20459","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20459"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20459\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}