Originally Posted by
coalgeo
ps - 18 lbs. - standard for the Government, as well, is it not?
Depends on who you ask, but my answer is calculated from Army Ordnance data for the recoil spring and it works out to 15.94 pounds at a compressed length of 1 5/8". Call it 16 pounds. And that's what two new Colt Gov't Model in my parts box measured when new - 16 pounds.
When you can measure what you are speaking about, and express it in numbers, you know something about it; but when you cannot measure it, when you cannot express it in numbers, your knowledge is of a meagre and unsatisfactory kind. [Lord Kelvin]
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