The resulting surface inside the mag tube was akin to emery paper. The mags worked fine in CONUS, but the fine dusty sand in Iraq in particular imbedded into the Parkerizing. My understanding is that the DoD required a specific Parkerizing process. The story on the M9 magazines is a little more complicated than is generally recognized. I'm not going to attempt to repear those explanations. Use Advanced Search as enter "1911Tuner" as the poster. Please use the search function of the forum to bring up numerous threads on Checkmate and on hybrid lips. Most other magazines are made with parallel lips whose straight sides and early release make them most suitable for short SWC bullets, but which compromise feeding with longer bullets.Īnother important feature of Checkmate magazines is the availability of a properly-positioned follower "dimple." Hybrid lips are the best compromise for reliable feeding with both FMJ (ball) and modern JHP & SWC bullets. The latter are also tapered, but release the cartridge somewhat earlier than the fully-tapered lips. MarkMark, you didn't see the forum's group buy of Checkmate magazines that just closed? A group buy (group buys on M1911.ORG are arranged by the forum managers, not members) offering is the best possible endorsement.Ĭheckmate magazines come with both fully-tapered (original USGI & early commercial) and so-called "hybrid" lips. They talk about standard and patented follower magazines. I'm looking to buy 3-4 magazines and I wanted to try something "new and different" but of good quality. ![]() Walton, also of The Moving Picture News summed up the film and stated, 'Good teaching as to woman's 'class', but as to details sadly lax.' The New York Dramatic Mirror panned the film beginning with, 'Nothing more improbable or inconsistent has been seen on the screen in some time.' The reviewer concluded the review of the improbable plot as to having been 'dreamed up by a ten-year-old girl.I've seen a few comments about "Check-Mate Industries" magazines, all positive as I recall, but I wanted to ask about them. Jeanval of The Moving Picture News found the baron to be boorish by shading a lady's hand with a glove on and wondered at how Thanhouser was able to film the prison scenes. ![]() While the reviewer stated that no magistrate would have sent the man to jail for assault with a blunt knife, it was the jail substitution via a changing of clothes which proved to be impossible. The Morning Telegraph, like others, found the story to be foolish and completely improbable on many accounts. The film was met with a wide variety of reviews by critics with the majority proving to be negative. The single reel drama, approximately 1,000 feet long, was released on February 17, 1911. The reel demonstrates how easily evidence of this sort may be made to entangle and ensnare a totally innocent man.' Release and reception Checkmate 1911 8 Round Mag The serious nature of the film was highlighted with the advertising of the film by Thanhouser which states, ' Checkmate carries a message and a lesson to those who value the 'circumstantial evidence' process by which so many convictions are obtained in our criminal courts. Checkmate wove a more tangled web of circumstantial evidence and intrigue and the resolution comes not from an astute female detective, but by the heiress's novel substitution of a doppelgänger to the prison so that the original can get the needed confession. ![]() Love and Law was a film which garnered some criticism for an improbable plot. The first such Thanhouser film to tackle the subject was Love and Law released in December 1910. Bowers notes that such convictions were a known social issue, but not a pressing one in 1911. Lonergan would produce several scenarios featuring the problems with circumstantial evidence being used to obtain convictions. David Bowers notes that the plot dealing with circumstantial evidence focused on one of Lloyd Lonergan's social issues. The only known credit for the film is that it starred William Garwood.
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