Welcome to at the moment’s Photograph of the Day! Right here now we have a extremely neat and really uncommon Grant-Hammond handgun. This specific one is a prototype that operates on a blow-forward mechanism. The best way it really works is the barrel shroud is a hole tube and the barrel itself ends about an inch away from the muzzle. After the barrel ends there’s a small hole after which a easy barrel. The trapped gasoline sends the slide shifting ahead till the gasoline pressures turn out to be protected and the slide will recoil to the rear inflicting the previous cartridge to be ejected, the hammer cocked, and a brand new spherical picked up. As talked about within the title the journal actually ejects itself after the ultimate spherical is fired. The journal has a spring clip on the aspect which switches orientation and principally tells the gun wether it’s loaded or not.
“That is an especially uncommon early Grant-Hammond prototype/software room “blow-forward” mannequin take a look at pistol. The Grant-Hammond Manufacturing Co. of Hartford, Conn. is greatest know for it earlier massive body 45ACP semi-automatic pistols that had been submitted to the U.S. Ordnance Dept. for Military testing circa 1915/16. Nonetheless, previous to that point the Grant-Hammond additionally experimented with a number of earlier patents for a small body blow-forward design in Oct 1912 and July 1913 that had been much like these manufactured in Europe. The corporate was really granted patents on these designs in 1915, which might most likely point out this pistol was manufactured circa 1913-1915 time-frame. It has a spherical barrel, mounted/mounted to the body with recoil spring mounted across the exterior of the barrel. It’s recoil actuated which permits the slide and barrel jacket to blow ahead, to begin the biking actions. The breech bolt stays in a stationary/locked place (ahead) throughout firing after which is pushed backward when the barrel jacket and slide housing recoil to the rear. It has a hard and fast entrance and rear sights and is fitted with a set of easy walnut grip panels. The pistol has no proofmarks or serial quantity and stays completely within the white. That is most likely the one Grant-Hammond small body prototype within the white ever produced.”
Lot 3641: Extraordinarily Uncommon Early Grant-Hammond Small Body Prototype/Take a look at 32. (n.d.). Rock Island Public sale Firm. {photograph}. Retrieved December 7, 2022, from https://www.rockislandauction.com/element/72/3641/extremely-rare-early-granthammond-small-frame-prototypetest-32.
