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The Model 1913 was produced from 1913 to 1921, and approximately 8,350 were built. The Model 1913 was chambered in the now obsolete .35 S&W Auto cartridge. [1] It featured smooth wooden grip panels, a fully grooved slide with crossbolt lock stud, and an ambidextrous safety that was operated with the middle finger of the shooting hand.
NATO Accessory Rail (STANAG 4694) The NATO Accessory Rail (NAR), defined by NATO Standardization Agreement (STANAG) 4694, is a rail interface system standard for mounting accessory equipment such as telescopic sights, tactical lights, laser aiming modules, night vision devices, reflex sights, foregrips, bipods and bayonets to small arms such as rifles and pistols.
The first test production at Kongsberg Våpenfabrikk in Norway occurred in 1917 and 95 pistols were finished and wrongly stamped "COLT AUT. PISTOL M/1912". [3] These pistols were identical to the Colt M1911 except for a minor detail on the hammer checkering. 100 pistols were ordered, but 5 were rejected during production.
Approximately 8,350 Model 1913 had been made when production stopped about 1921. Smith & Wesson shifted production to their Model 32 self-loading pistol chambered for the .32 ACP from 1924 to 1937. No other firearms were chambered for the .35 S&W, and the cartridge is considered obsolete, and ammunition is rare and highly collectible. [4]
This is a table of selected pistol/submachine gun and rifle/machine gun cartridges by common name. Data values are the highest found for the cartridge, and might not occur in the same load (e.g. the highest muzzle energy might not be in the same load as the highest muzzle velocity, since the bullet weights can differ between loads).
Stevens Arms was founded by Joshua Stevens with help from backers W.B. Fay and James Taylor in Chicopee Falls, Massachusetts, [3] in 1864 as J. Stevens & Co. Their earliest product was a tip-up action single shot pistol.
The improved model was adopted in September 1916 as the Pistola Campo-Giro de 9mm, Modelo 1913-16. However, by 1919 the Spanish military had begun looking for yet another new pistol. [ 2 ] However they did not stray far, as the Campo-Giro was the direct forerunner of the Astra tubular slide guns such as the Astra Modelo de 1921/Model 400 which ...
The trigger is double action only. The pistol was the first to function solely in double action. Manufrance "Le Français" modèle E (France – Pistol DAO in 1913 – 6.35 mm/.25 ACP) Manufrance "Le Français" Franco (France – Pistol DAO – 6.35 mm/.25 ACP) Manufrance "Le Français" manumodèle (France – Pistol DAO – 6.35 mm/.25 ACP)