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!
Prototype
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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.