In my opinion maybe the most elegant pistol.

According to the 1902 Sears, Roebuck catalog, the "Colts Automatic Pistol" and had "a range of 500 to 1,000 yards" and "has the force of a rifle". "Our special price....$18.50"

@0neDoomedSpaceMarine

5 ай бұрын

Haha, marketing could be a bit excited with those things back then, in ways it wouldn't even be now. The original load for .38ACP was straight up what would later be dubbed the .38 Super, so it's a pistol with a bit more punch than most .36 to .38 caliber autos, but it'd be pretty light for a rifle. Of course they realize these pistols aren't really strong enough for a diet of that power, thus the spec for the .38ACP is lowered so the guns don't beat themselves to death, the original load is revived much later under the .38 Super name and using the 1911, which of course is much stronger and can deal with it easy. Still well liked today, of course. In my opinion, .357 Magnum and .44 Magnum are the first proper handgun cartridges around which actually really gave you the power of a rifle in a handgun. As for the range, there certainly are some incredible pistoleros out there, today and 120+ years ago, and you would see pistols with sights adjustable up to 500 and even 1000 meters, but you really would have to be angling your handgun upwards like an artillery piece for "only" 250 meters, and the bullet would not be going the fastest after all that airtime. I love how old material like this in the still early days of smokeless gunpowder just completely embraced the optimism, and would proudly boast in advertising about the things which you could _theoretically_ do with a gun, but which nobody ever actually would.

The HOUSE ON HAUNTED HILL movie 1959, with Vincent Price, appears to have several of this year handgun neatly arraigned in small coffins, one for each guest...

@Whofan91

6 ай бұрын

The pistols featured in the "party favor" scene of that film are Colt 1903 Pocket Hammer(s), but because the picture quality makes it hard to tell at first, it's easy to understand why they get confused. P.S. If you're interested, there are plenty of videos on YT that review both the 1903 Pocket Hammer and Pocket Hammerless models. Tip: C&Rsenal is my go to vid for the Hammerless. P.P.S. Hope you're having an awesome near year so far😊

@ANTI-LGBTQG

5 ай бұрын

​@@Whofan91there's the pocket hammerless and the vest pocket hammerless .25 ACP

After watching many fake gun restore videos. It's nice to finally watch a real one done right.

Fantastic work👍

great gun, my favorite !!!

Класс!👍

Perfeito. Abraços do Brasil. 🇧🇷

@thegunfatherrestorations

Жыл бұрын

Obrigado pelo seu apoio!

Wow! That’s beautiful!

So I have a question on the laser etching. Well idk if that’s what it is even called. I restore old firearms myself but would love to be able to sand and polish the pitting out but if I do that I will lose the original roll marks and stamps. What does a system like that cost? I’m guessing you also need computer programs to get the right set of prints to have the codes for the right gun. I know nothing about this type of work and hope you can help out with just some info I will look it up in the web too. Thanks

What bluing method/products did you use?

@stevenicholas5651

2 ай бұрын

These were charcoal blued. Colts charcoal blueing process was something of a mystery and it's notoriously hard to reproduce. This looked like an amazing representation of Colts charcoal blue..

So much music I had to turn it down. Nice old pistol.

Chulada

Browning's design?

@0neDoomedSpaceMarine

5 ай бұрын

I forgot if he designed it wholesale, or if he just devised this style of short-recoil with two links and had Colt develop it into a full pistol, but he was very much involved. He would of course be closely involved in the various pistols which would finally lead up to the amazing 1911, including designing the .45 Auto cartridge, giving the US Army the big bore revolver performance they really wanted for a modern automatic pistol. Sometimes Browning would come up with a full fledged gun, often because Colt or Winchester were looking for something specific and their own engineers were at their wits end, and sometimes he would come up with a full new gun or even just an idea to patent, which he'd sell them. Winchester eventually got into the habit of just plain shelving a lot of them because they wanted to make sure they didn't have to compete with them, and he got really sick of that. That's one of the reasons that his famous Auto-5 shotgun (which is the gun he would be the most proud of) instead went to Remington and FN Herstal, which Winchester would REALLY kick themselves over.

Насечки спереди на крышке - это ужасно, обычно они расположены сзади. Работа просто отличная!

@vik1113

7 ай бұрын

Странно! Наоборот передняя насечка - круто и удобно!

@brandonkinzler3188

16 күн бұрын

The front serrations are only for the military design. And if you thought about it this would mean you would load the pistol from grasping the front of the slide. It’s unusual and diff but unique to this model. The sporting model has the serrations and the back of the slide like normal. I also love the round hammer design. I just restored a colt 1903 pocket hammer on KZread as well but that’s under “the kinzler bros” I do not have this guys talent yet.