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!
Submachine Guns
A Special MPi-81 for an Infantry Fighting Vehicle
One interesting specialized version of the Steyr MPi-81 is this model, built for the Steyr/Saurer 4K 7FA armored personnel carrier. The vehicle could carry 8 infantrymen and their compartment had four firing ports fitted with […]
Commentary
The Most Elegant Pistol Ever
Most of the time, guns intended to be fancy and particularly fancy leave me rather cold. I can recognize the mind-blowing skill that goes into really high-end hand engraving, but engraved guns just aren’t really […]
Prototype
Frommer 1901 Pistol (Video)
Rudolf Frommer was a self-taught engineer and firearms designer who worked his way up through the FEG concern in Budapest to eventually hold the position of CEO. During this time he developed a series of […]
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.