Indeed, he designed two of them, and then his greatest Belgian collaborator raised the design still further. But the market for small pocket pistols needed an auto pistol, and who better to design the gun - and the cartridge - than John M Browning Himself. 38 revolvers (around the turn of the century, some of them, including NYPD, even used. Police, less prone to getting in major battles than the Army in those days, would stick with. 45 Long Colt revolvers hastily procured in 1902 (and 1909) when bumptious Moros showed an unanticipated ability to absorb.
A new Colt auto pistol chambered for a new. The emerging auto pistols addressed both problems. 41RF derringer, but you couldn’t toss a S&W Triple Lock in your vest pocket and forget about it as you went about your daily business, either. You couldn’t win a gunfight with multiple hostiles using a Remington. The carry gun was a compact version of the same revolver at the high end, and a small rimfire revolver or derringer at the low end. 45 caliber, with a barrel of four to six inches. The typical service pistol of 1900 was a double-action revolver of from. Sure, the sports have changed, along with the pistols used for them, but there are still two basic kinds of defensive pistol: service pistols that give up some portability or concealability for performance, and carry guns that give up some performance for portability and concealability. But people used handguns in 1900 for the same reason they do a century on: for defense of self, people and property, and for sport. Image: Tombstone Grips.Īt the turn of the last century, cartridges with smokeless powder and automatic pistols were emerging technologies. This is an early (first variation) Browning 1906 VP.
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