Help ID this Crazy Pistol!!!
I have no Idea what this is. Please help. Thanks Eric.
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Home made gun. When he made the mould for the grips, he forgot to reverse the lettering. The obviously hand-stamped serial number is a dead giveaway.
The grip angle is....interesting.
I'll bet it shoots low!0 -
Possibly a Chinese village gunsmith working in support of the Reds. Maybe a Cao Dai pistol out of Viet Nam.
Here is one similar from five years ago. Interesting how the Oriental mind is captivated by the Broomhandle Mauser. Carried over here in the hammer and slide pulls.
https://forums.GunBroker.com/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=447503
The real Demon pistol, is one of the many Spanish Ruby types. Grips molded off of these?
Link didn't work, search on Demon pistol to see the picture. But it has nothing in common with Our Oriental Friend except the grips.0 -
H-C nailed it. It's Chinese. Probably a 1000 different variations. Almost everyone is different. Nobody knows who made them. Indication's are that almost every small village metalworking shop, made them at one time or another.
Majority are straight blowbacks, but chambered for the 30 Mauser, (7.62 X 25), pistol cartridge. As they would be very dangerous, to actually fire, with this cartridge. It's thought they were actually used as ceremonial, badge of office type guns, for the village headman/chief?
Although it does have some similarities to the BH Mauser. Size wise and internal mechanism, is much more similar. To very early production Spanish Star pistols, that were exported to China. Models 1908 & 1914. They were virtually unknown in the west, but apparently the Chinese really took to them.0 -
Anyone notice that the serial number on this pistol is exactly the same as the second close up pistol picture in Hawk Carse's post but with the addition of the number one at the beginning on his. 0 -
Read the serial number from right to left. 0 -
Man, I'm glad I don't have to log that one in.[:)][:)] 0 -
Nice little piece, really like it. History, and who knows how much. 0 -
Looks are close to a Jo Lo Ar with a different trigger guard. 0 -
This is one of the early Star's I was referring to. Believe a 1914? 0
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