![]() ![]() The 1908 Pocket Hammerless (not to be confused with the 1908 Vest Pocket-which didn’t have a hammer, either) is chambered for the. The folks at Colt must have asked the same question. If everything is equal, there is no point in the. But in the Walther PPK, for example? The. The P32 is about the same size as most pocket guns chambered for. In pocket pistols, like the Kel-Tec P32, the choice seems logical. 32 ACP is small and underpowered, guns chambered in. While most everyone will concede that the. Still, there were smaller rounds-Browning was working on the. I’d like to acknowledge how much almost everyone dislikes the. ![]() The 1903 is a single-action blowback semi-automatic pistol chambered in. It is just under seven inches long-almost four inches of that is barrel. The Colt 1903 Pocket Hammerless is reasonably small. Yet, some that have been relegated to Curio and Relic status really deserve to be looked at again. Still-many Browning designs have slipped into obsolescence. His influence, even when end users are unaware of it, shows no sign of diminishing. If he were alive today, I wonder if he’d feel the same way about the 1911 that The Eagles feel about “Desperado”. But for most of us his career is defined by his work with Colt Manufacturing LLC. Patton, will be donated to select firearms advocacy organizations to be sold at auction as fundraisers.John Moses Browning designed some amazing guns. Guns with the serials of more well-known owners, such as Dwight D. ![]() Some 3,500 of these nouveau 1903s will be made - 1,500 Parkerized, 1,500 blued, and a special run of 500 specially marked with the serial numbers of guns originally issued to actual generals, retaining the "GOP" prefix, of course, to thwart any nefarious characters who might try to pass one of these pistols off as the real article.Įach one of these pistols will be accompanied with particulars of the general. The serial number range has a special "GOP" prefix. The General Officer's Pistol comes wrapped in period-style brown waxed paper, packed in a plain brown cardboard box with a copy of the original Colt instructions. This has been done purposely so that one can tell at a glance that they're encountering one of the new 1903 incarnations. Grips are checkered walnut, decorated with gold Colt escutcheons - the only departure from the wartime pistol, which had silver escutcheons. Armament's new 1903 "Hammerless" General Officer's Pocket Pistol - with the exception of its gold grip escutcheon - is a ringer for an original U.S.-issue. Markings on the new 1903 (below) are virtually identical to the original's (above) with the exception of a special "GOP" prefixed serial number. ![]()
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