Welcome to at this time’s Photo of the Day! Here we have now one other Grant Hammond Pistol (I lined a 32ACP mannequin earlier). This specific Grant Hammond is a forty five ACP navy trials pistol that noticed hands-on testing in 1918. Mr. Hammond thought it might outperform the M1911 that was persevering with to guide the navy handgun race. It was discovered to be a beautiful pistol and splendidly correct. It had one important problem, sadly. The inside components had been topic to fixed and constant breakages in too in need of a time.
“Developed within the mid 1910s by Grant Hammond of the Grand Hammond Manufacturing Company, the Hammond Pistol (aka the Liberty Pistol, resulting from using plant area owned by Liberty Motors in manufacturing) was one of many post-1910 rivals to Colt’s Government Model/1911 pistol. Brought to the eye of the Small Arms Division of U.S. Army Ordnance in 1917, the Hammond was subjected to a number of rounds of analysis by particular person officers, small teams, and at last formal trials by each the Army and Navy. For the lads who examined it, the Grant Hammond was one thing of a heart-breaker; it was typically described in glowing phrases by those that shot it, however had points that had been by no means totally corrected even after a number of rounds of suggestions to the producer. Almost universally the testers beloved the dealing with and the accuracy of the pistol, although power points had been skilled with the journal, and the novel bolt mechanism, which might be pulled out fairly simply for primary cleansing, was a lot tougher to take care of in a element strip state of affairs, and could be extra sophisticated than the Colt’s slide to keep up. “
Lot 447: Grant Hammond .45 Acp Military Trials Pistol – Very Rare Grant Hammond .45 Acp Semi-Automatic Military Trials Pistol. (n.d.). Rock Island Auction Company. {photograph}. Retrieved December 27, 2022, from https://www.rockislandauction.com/detail/87/447/grant-hammond-45-acp-military-trials-pistol.
