{"id":7964,"date":"2017-02-28T12:00:03","date_gmt":"2017-02-28T12:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2017\/02\/28\/mac-1950-tactical-shooting-competition\/"},"modified":"2020-07-22T16:22:37","modified_gmt":"2020-07-22T21:22:37","slug":"mac-1950-tactical-shooting-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2017\/02\/28\/mac-1950-tactical-shooting-competition\/","title":{"rendered":"MAC 1950: Tactical Shooting Competition"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"youtubomatic-video-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"580\" height=\"380\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/sduZ4So_swk?controls=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>History and disassembly of the MAC 1950: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=m16n4Q4cQlg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=m16n4Q4cQlg<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Following up on yesterday&#8217;s discussion of the history and mechanics of the French Pistolet Automatique Modele 1950, today I am running it in a run-n-gun pistol match.<\/p>\n<p>The gun worked well for me, not having any malfunctions, but did present a couple issues. One was hammer bite, and the other was my inadvertently engaging the slide-mounted safety when racking the slide (whoops!). Otherwise, the gun was pretty much on par with other contemporary service pistols &#8211; the trigger is reasonably good, as are the sights. The 9-round magazines are terribly small by today&#8217;s standards, but were rather the norm in comparison to the P38, 1911, Browning High Power, Beretta 1951, SIG P210, and other service sidearms of the 1950s.<\/p>\n<p>In the match, I was 2nd of 3 shooters in the &#8220;single stack&#8221; division, and 43rd of 49 overall.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.patreon.com\/ForgottenWeapons\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/www.patreon.com\/ForgottenWeapons<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Cool Forgotten Weapons merch! <a href=\"http:\/\/shop.bbtv.com\/collections\/forgotten-weapons\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/shop.bbtv.com\/collections\/forgotten-weapons<\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you enjoy Forgotten Weapons, check out its sister channel, InRangeTV! <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/InRangeTVShow\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/InRangeTVShow<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>History and disassembly of the MAC 1950: https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=m16n4Q4cQlg Following up on yesterday&#8217;s discussion of the history and mechanics of the French Pistolet Automatique Modele 1950, today I am running it in a run-n-gun pistol match. The gun worked well for me, not having any malfunctions, but did present a couple issues. One was hammer bite,&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2017\/02\/28\/mac-1950-tactical-shooting-competition\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">MAC 1950: Tactical Shooting Competition<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":7965,"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-7964","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\/7964","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=7964"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7964\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14973,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7964\/revisions\/14973"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}