Continued from hereThe slides and frames of the original P210 were machined from impression-die steel forgings weighing 2.320kg (5.1lbs). The finished frame weighed in at 0.330kg (0.73lbs) after undergoing 107 machining operations (see Doebeli, p. 98 and Vetter, p. 180). Between 1983 and 1984, SIG introduced a new production series of the P210, ( Read more... )

The Schweizerische Industrie-Gesellschaft, or the Swiss Industrial Society, commonly known as SIG, and located in Neuhausen am Rheinfall, stands alone among the manufacturers of small arms in having designed and produced the only sidearm ever to be adopted for military and constabulary service that was meant to be equally well suited for bullseye ( Read more... )

SWISS ARMY
65.317 d
The 9mm Pistol 49
(Pist. 49)
Instructions for Armorers
Valid from 1 October 1966


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Distribution
a) Personal copies:
    -To all small arms repair officers.
    -To all small arms repair non-commissioned officers.
    -To all military gunsmiths.
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“Once is happenstance, twice is coincidence, the third time it’s enemy action.”

1. Item: the 1999 bombing campaign conducted under the auspices of Bill & Hill’s “co-presidency” creating a festering Islamist drug and sex slave trafficking and organ thieving enclave in the Balkans.
   
   
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The SIG S.P.47/8 was developed to compete for succession of Georg Luger’s Parabellum pistol that had been adopted by the Swiss Army in 1900 as the first automatic pistol to be issued in military service. Although the Luger has been simplified, and arguably perfected in its 1929 embodiment by the Waffenfabrik Bern (W+F), it was deemed too expensive ( Read more... )

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Let us examine the details of the MR73 design and construction via its parts diagram:



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Writing a year after the end of WWI, prewar Olympic gold and silver pistol shooting medalist Walter Winans began Chapter I of his treatise The Modern Pistol and How to Shoot It with a bold pronouncement: “There is now no use learning revolver shooting. That form of pistol is obsolete except in the few instances where it survives for target ( Read more... )

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“Was nicht verboten ist, ist erlaubt”, announced Schiller’s First Hunter. What isn’t forbidden, is allowed. But you can do better-observe social rules only as far as necessary to trespass them with lawful impunity. “Questa è l’unica speranza-l’uomo nel disordine.”

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