Obscure firearms can still be found. I bought this Swedish Mauser and the Argentine Mauser about a month ago at a farm consignment auction.
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Just saw one of these for sale last week for $2400 Canadian Rupees, was the first time I'd ever heard of one. Turns out they made carbines as well. Who doesn't want a rocket gun? Unfortunately it seems ammo is all but impossible to find for these nowadays, but a very neat curio piece regardless.
I would have loved to had shot Dad's pistol. I've read that it was an odd sensation shooting them as they had "reverse" recoil. Pulling the trigger drove the hammer back against the nose of the projectile driving the round back onto a fixed firing pin that ignited the rocket motor. The hammer held it there as the rocket motor spooled up. As thrust increased it started moving and pushed the hammer forward re cocking it and giving the sensation of the pistol being pulled forward.
Haha, that's great, I watched both the Forgotten Weapons(hands down my favorite youtube channel) videos on those guns after seeing the one for sale to see how they operated. There is another cool video on the TAOFLEDERMAUS Youtube channel that has some footage of them shooting a few of the cartridges and capturing it with a high speed camera, it was pretty cool to see the little thrusters burning and imparting the spin on the projectile.
They are amazing pistols ... not the M13, but definitely one of the better P7 videos out there:
I still kick myself for not buying one when I had the chance.
Clinton’s 1994 Public Safety and Recreational Firearms Use Protection Act, which among other things, limited mag capacity to 10-rds, eventually weighed-in on HK’s decision to scrap M13 production in 2000 ... i.e., no longer able to import M13s (except for Military & LEOs) the M13 market dried up. Knowing that Clinton’s Act was set-up to ‘sunset’ in 2004, I spiked a NIB post-1994 LEO/Military M13 a year before & paid a $100 over MSRP a few days after the act expired.
Oberndorf produced a total of 7 stainless steel M7 prototypes, one of which mysteriously(?) disappeared ... last I read, it was rumored to be in the possession of some well-heeled collector in Hawaii??
Oberndorf produced a total of 7 stainless steel M7 prototypes, one of which mysteriously(?) disappeared ... last I read, it was rumored to be in the possession of some well-heeled collector in Hawaii??
My understanding as to why the M7 never went into production is three-fold:
Historically, HK developement & production were fueled by Military & LE demand & contracts. No such demand existed for a 7-round .45ACP squeeze-cocker.
Because of its’ chambering, research concluded that any market for the M7 would, by & large, be limited to Stateside civilians & at a projected production cost of $2,000 per pistol, that market would be an extremely limited one.
Lastly, though the .45ACP is a relatively low-pressure round, due to the M7’s light, low-profile slide, HK had difficulties harnessing the harsh(er) recoiling .45ACP round. Even the inclusion of a hydraulic buffer (á la, the P7K3) failed to render satisfactory results ... years later, HK introduced the P7M10 which, though it succesfully tamed the warm .40S&W, did so via a slide inspired by none other than Frankenstein
[ALL kidding aside, the M10 is an excellent & extremely accurate pistol]
Wonder if he sold it recently?Thought that one on the left looked like a Swede when I saw a later reply. I have several of those, including one made for them by Mauser Obendorf in 1900. All of the serial numbered parts on it match, and it has a two digit serial number.
Obscure firearms can still be found. I bought this Swedish Mauser and the Argentine Mauser about a month ago at a farm consignment auction.
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But it's still a really fun handgun; reliable, safe and very accurate.My obscure firearm is so obscure that the shows it was in are obscure.
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