Edwin Reiger was an Austrian designer who took the basic mechanism of the Passler & Seidl ring trigger manual pistol and added a sort of revolver magazine to it. Reiger used a drop-in 6-round clip very similar to the Blake rifle clip. Only two examples of these pistols are known to survive, and this one has a very striking brass frame. Very cool!
Semiauto pistol
Slow Motion: Steyr-Mannlicher M1905
The 1905 Steyr-Mannlicher was developed by Ferdinand Mannlicher, one of Europe’s most prolific gun designers. It uses the 7.65mm Mannlicher cartridge, which is roughly equivalent to .32 ACP, with a 10-round fixed internal magazine. The […]
Bolt Action Rifles
RIA – Swiss Model 1893: A Mannlicher Cavalry Carbine
The Swiss were the first country to adopt a bolt action repeating rifle with their Vetterli, and followed this by changing to a straight-pull design in the 1880s. The straight-pull Schmidt-Rubin system was quite good, […]
Conversion
Hogue Avenger: Precision Accuracy Via Delayed Blowback
The Avenger is a flapper-delayed blowback, fixed barrel conversion upper assembly for the Model 1911 pistol. It was designed by Austrian Peter Spielberger, and manufactured by Hogue in the US and PowerSpeed in Austria. It […]
Nice, I like that ring trigger repeating design’s you showed this week. Thanks.
btw 7+ years ago you have that
https://www.forgottenweapons.com/the-most-elegant-pistol-ever/
with the info to post about hist and tech later…..
Did I miss the post, because I can not find it.
Dear Ian,
I have got an impression that while our (quite miserable) pistols are over-represented, our (not that bad) rifles are close-to-absent here.
Donnerwetter!
Psiakość!
A kurva életbe!
Bring us a decent Mannlicher one day!
Use the search box, there are many. Cheers.
Has anyone found a contemporary (French?) military trial report on any of these manual repeater things, or even a civilian review?
I can’t imagine that anyone alive has shot one.
I do imagine that they were pretty terrible compared even to a fairly average 1880s revolver, let alone a S&W Model 3 or a Webley WG.
Be nice to have confirmation, though.
Rotary clip concepts like this all have one big disadvantage: the clips are not inherently “disposable.” I could be wrong.
This is Rieger 1889 pistol, not Reiger. It´s inventor is Erwin Rieger, see the german patentes nr. 43 532 and 49 195.