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John Moses Browning’s gun fact dump
Wed, 20/05/2026 - 19:42
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Thu, 21/05/2026 - 20:06
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S&W Model 1917. Don’t know much of it, at least not to the extent with other guns below, but it’s pretty cool. A large frame revolver chambered for .45 ACP. Yes, .45 ACP, the auto cartridge originated in 1905 by JMB with the Colt Model 1905 (later evolved into the venerable 1911). The 1917 was created as basically a space filler. It was there to fill the absence of 1911’s during WW1. If you couldn’t get a 1911, you got a 1917. It used half moon clips to mimic the rim of a revolver cartridge so you could chamber the .45 ACP’s without them sinking into the cylinder and actually eject them via the clip. You may have seen the 1917 as War Daddy (Brad Pitt)’s revolver in Fury (2014). Pretty cool gun
Thu, 21/05/2026 - 17:29
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Went back 25 fucking pages in General Discussion to find this image I made. Shows some of my favorite pistols
Thu, 21/05/2026 - 16:17
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Anyways like I said in general discussion the original Browning Hi Power design was striker fired. You may think it's the first striker fire ever because Glocks were the first, widely known striker fires, but this Browning Hi Power prototype was not the first striker fire. That belongs to the Dreyse Needle Gun. The first striker fired pistol was the Borchardt C-93. First successful, popular striker fired pistol was the FN Model 1900, designed by John Moses Browning. Both the Borchardt C-93 and FN Model 1900 are present in RDR1-2.
Thu, 21/05/2026 - 16:22
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The finished Hi Power, however, was hammer fired SAO. Why switch from striker to hammer fired? Striker was only pursued originally because back in 1911, JMB sold the design and rights of the 1911 pistol patent to Colt, and that included the hammer fired single action design, along with different internal systems, so JMB couldn’t design the Hi Power as a hammer fired single action due to violating his own design’s copyright. But in 1928, 2 years after JMB’s death of a heart attack at his workbench designing this very pistol, the then 17 year long copyright expired, so another designer was able to finish the design in hammer fired SAO
Thu, 21/05/2026 - 15:22
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It may sound like a silly question, but do you have a favorite firearm?
You seem to have alot of in depth knowledge about them in general, my favorites the m1 carbine, the story for its conceptions was one i found very interesting
Thu, 21/05/2026 - 16:23
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Steyr Scout
the scout rifle concept in general is already on the weirder end, but Steyr kinda got it right on the first go imo
Thu, 21/05/2026 - 16:43
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Im reading up on it rn, always been a fan of ghost sights
The only kind of problem im seeing so far was the earlier versions had issues with the bipod but thats barely even a complaint tbh
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