Hi,
I just found this site and immediately joined. I no longer shoot, but am a collector of free pistols. One of my favorites is a Green (pre-Electroarm) pistol. I have had no luck researching the man or his guns, other than his Olympic career. Any information would be appreciated. I have a Tompkins and would love a High Standard. Does anyone know of any other post-war attempts at an American free pistol?
Thanks,
Bob Hart
Frank Green
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Ed Hall
Hi Bob,
Welcome! I can't really help about his guns, but Franklin Green was a long time member of the USAF Shooting Team (1961-1969, 1971, 1972) and the only active duty Air Force member to win the NRA Nationals in Pistol. We have a whole bunch of his shooting accomplishments documented at our USAF National Pistol Team site:
http://www.airforceshooting.org
Check out our history section and also look at our photo scrapbook pages from the history page (about the third paragraph down). Just about any picture after the first two has Frank Green and will open up a larger shot and most of the faces (Frank Green is in almost all) will take you to a bio for the individual. I hope that was clear enough. You might also read the two articles listed at the beginning of the history page since they mention Frank Green as well.
I don't have any info about his guns. I'm only aware that he did some work in the electronic trigger area at one time. I know he also had an audio training tape he produced, but I don't know at what level that was available. One of the things I remember from his tape was a part where he said that the common description of aligning the sights and pressing the trigger was backwards. He felt that one should start the trigger and then place all focus on the sights until the gun went off. This was a part of the training description for the exercises on the tape.
Sadly, Frank Green passed away a couple years ago.
Take Care,
Ed Hall
http://www.airforceshooting.org/
http://www.starreloaders.com/edhall/
Welcome! I can't really help about his guns, but Franklin Green was a long time member of the USAF Shooting Team (1961-1969, 1971, 1972) and the only active duty Air Force member to win the NRA Nationals in Pistol. We have a whole bunch of his shooting accomplishments documented at our USAF National Pistol Team site:
http://www.airforceshooting.org
Check out our history section and also look at our photo scrapbook pages from the history page (about the third paragraph down). Just about any picture after the first two has Frank Green and will open up a larger shot and most of the faces (Frank Green is in almost all) will take you to a bio for the individual. I hope that was clear enough. You might also read the two articles listed at the beginning of the history page since they mention Frank Green as well.
I don't have any info about his guns. I'm only aware that he did some work in the electronic trigger area at one time. I know he also had an audio training tape he produced, but I don't know at what level that was available. One of the things I remember from his tape was a part where he said that the common description of aligning the sights and pressing the trigger was backwards. He felt that one should start the trigger and then place all focus on the sights until the gun went off. This was a part of the training description for the exercises on the tape.
Sadly, Frank Green passed away a couple years ago.
Take Care,
Ed Hall
http://www.airforceshooting.org/
http://www.starreloaders.com/edhall/
Ed
An interesting comment
Would be interested to hear others thoughts.
Mikey
An interesting comment
Sounds perfectly logical to me as that is what I do. Start the trigger squeeze and then use the trigger to steer the front sight, or in my words pull the front sight through the rear sight, figuratively not literally. It helps my trigger commitment as I don't have to worry about the sights moving before starting the trigger squeeze."that the common description of aligning the sights and pressing the trigger was backwards. He felt that one should start the trigger and then place all focus on the sights until the gun went off"
Would be interested to hear others thoughts.
Mikey
Red9
Drop me an email and I'll email you a .pdf copy of the manual for the Green FP.
Its not the best copy since it is a copy of a copy but, its useable.
denniss@burntmill.com
Drop me an email and I'll email you a .pdf copy of the manual for the Green FP.
Its not the best copy since it is a copy of a copy but, its useable.
denniss@burntmill.com
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rick lee
interesting concept could be be because of a heavier trigger weight that his method would work? or is it due to not having to align the sights due to repetative training to ensure minimal or no effort needed to do so?
for me my secondary trigger pressure is too light to allow me to trigger first then align the gun would have fired even before i can really emphazise on the sight alignments.
for me my secondary trigger pressure is too light to allow me to trigger first then align the gun would have fired even before i can really emphazise on the sight alignments.