Posted on 08/09/2016 7:27:28 AM PDT by w1n1
Early in the 20th century one of the weakness observed by an inventor named Harald Sunngard in automatic pistols was that during reloads while under stress were often bungled by shooters. This would leave them vulnerable to return fire without being able to shoot back. This Norwegian inventor came up with a solution. There were two parts to this, the first was to use a big magazine, second was to store a spare magazine right in the well of the pistol for immediate use.
The grip of the pistol needed to be big enough to store two identical magazines. One in the front and one in the back inside the well. The front magazine sits higher than the rear one, the bolt face on the slide feeds rounds from the front magazine into the chamber. Once the magazine is empty, shooter ejects it and slide the rear magazine to the front position.
This pistol shoots a 6.5mm and the magazine holds 25, with two magazines the shooter has 50 rounds available. Sunngard hypothesize that while in a gun fight with the common handguns which was only 7 to 8 rounds. While the reload is where Sunngard auto pistol would come into play without a reload and win the gun fight. Read the rest of the story here.
Looks more like a semi-auto.
25 caliber?...............
Would the second magazine be spring loaded once the first magazine is ejected?
Hollyweird has had continuous firing no-reloading pistols for decades. Their standard six-shooter was good for twenty or thirty shots.
Spud Gun
They thought otherwise.
Perhaps we’ve corrupted the language.
Guns should be sexy.
This gun is not sexy.
Liberators are more sexy than this gun.
“...if they weren’t at the bottom of that fish pond...”
I hate it when that happens!
First double stack?
Early self loading pistols were referred to as automatic pistols. The .45 ACP (Automatic Colt Pistol) round was designed for the M1911 Automatic Pistol.
A story from one of the gun rags years ago:
A lawman was enamored with a little .25 auto for some reason, so his loving wife sewed a small pouch for it into each pair of his duty pants. He dropped it in there and carried it until the fateful day.
A bad guy wrestling him for his duty weapon succeeded in getting it, so he went inside his waistband, pulled the .25, stuck it against the man’s chest, and fired! The muscular man looked down, touched the little red spot on his sternum and said, “What’s this?!”
This is NOT the reaction you’re going for, from a man you’ve just shot, but the the distraction allowed the heroic officer to take back his sidearm and win the confrontation.
My condolences on.your tragic loss, a horrible experience shared by many here.
Got it. Thanks!
You. Too, must be of the age to have watched Hopalong Cassidy, Roy Rodgers, and others, all of whom possessed the magic 6/100 Colt six shooters.
Nope. Way way before my time. Retro TV has those old westerns. Randolph Scott is my favorite. He’s a hunk.
We don’t need no ugly guns. And THAT is an ugly gun.
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