Posted: 10/20/2006 11:51:47 PM EDT
| i ve never seen one in real life just on movies,it seem i saw one being loaded from the top with some kind of clip.and then i saw one with a magazine loading from the bottom.also i saw one firing semi auto in a clint eastwood movie and i saw one firing full auto in some other film.are there various types or is it just hollywood stuff.also if they did fire full auto does any one know the rate of fire?i was just wondering how it would compare to modern machine pistols like the berreta 93r. |
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Mostly they ar heavily coveted because of their engineering. Thes pistols are not held together with screws. parts are like a chinese puzzle. Leaf springs and detents allow the gun to be field stripped. It is a complicated orchestra of beautifuly machined parts that are all hand fitted. Many many versions have come out along with Mag fed and 45acp versions. They are rare, and over the years some were assembled wrong and had to have a hole drilled in their action to allow for them to be put together properly. I have only handled three. One was in a cofee can in parts. Not all the parts were there. I have seen a dozen the rest ranged from 4000$ colectable with their stock to 500$ junk shot out models. Go out to gun broker and look at the ad there. Google is your friend. |
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In the late 1970's I shot a WWI bring back "Red Nine". It was legit, as I knew the owner, who's the vet that brought it back from France. It was also well before the change in laws that allowed the big flood of imports, and all the reconditioned ones. The gun was an absolute work of art. Not exactly the most ergonomic thing to shoot without the stock, but not too bad with the stock. Definately an experience as it was a "trophy". I've shot a couple others, and owned a Browning HP with a shoulder stock and they've always been fun. Rate of fire on full-auto ones I've seen was pretty fast. I've shot a full-auto Hi-power and seen a S&W 5906 on full-auto, and it seems like all of them are similar. All "way too fast". The Mauser pistol was the first successful automatic pistol made. Piece of history, work of art, engineering excellence, or just plain fun to shoot. All of them describe the gun pretty well. |