Berger Repeating Pistol
The 1880s saw a brief explosion of experimental manuallyoperated repeating handguns, mostly throughout Europe. The most common weapon of this type known in the US is the Volcanic pistol, forerunner to the Winchester leveraction rifles. In Germany and Austria, however, a bunch of different guns of this type were developed. The one we are looking at today is a Berger, dating from 1880, 1881. Unlike most of these guns, it could be described as a double action mechanism a single rearward trigger pull runs the complete loading, firing, ejecting cycle. In most manually operated handguns, the rearward pull loads and fires, while a forward push of the trigger extracts and ejects the fired case (much like a leveraction rifle).
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