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Section 8: Handguns
Subject: S&W 1913 Msg# 1021766

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TJ Parmele

Joined 6/1/2005

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Mark Freburg (Read) Forum Manager

Joined 4/3/2000

Ahhh, the gun that kept Smith and Wesson solely into revolvers for the next 40-50 years...

I used to have one. Quite the mechanical wonder. My favorite thing was the manual safety on the grip. It was operated with a small dial. Most cumbersome ill-designed feature I have ever seen on a production gun.

Image below from TJ Parmele - Image Title: S-W 1913 Left Side
Image Info: I recently purchased this S&W 1913 and here is the left handed side of the gun.

Image below from TJ Parmele - Image Title: S-W 1913 Right Side
Image Info: Here is the right side of my S&W 1913.

For reference, the above message is a reply to a message where:
Do you still have this interesting pistol, John?

Image below from JohnWill - Image Title: photos
Image Info: Here''s a pistol you don''t see everyday! The scarce S&W semi-auto from early in the 1900''s. After looking it over, it seems that the S&W engineers had lots of time on their hands, but didn''t use it well. The manual safety is under your hand when you hold the gun, and the grip safety is the projection from the front of the grip, which isn''t a natural place. It has a spring so powerful with the light slide that it''s impossible for the most mortals to rack the slide. S&W solved this problem by disconnecting the slide from the spring with the button on the side to chamber a round. From the looks of the inside, there was an awful lot of precision machineing required to make this gun, it had to be expensive! All in all, a very unusual pistol.

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