Creditors took over the company and attempted to build and sell them for another 4 years until they too were short on funds. I guess the men of the 'Gilded Age' didn't see the potential.Ol' Fairfax was just ahead of his time.įairfax continued to produce limited number of the pistols at various gun manufactories around England until 1903 when he ran out of money. One critic wrote that 'no one who fired the gun once, wished to shoot it again'. He got the same feedback from the eight or so military trials in which his gun participated in: 'the gun is too large and too complicated'. Webley & Scott wanted to make some changes to make the gun more viable and Fairfax would have none of it. The prototypes and first production units were produced by Webley & Scott in Birmingham, England. Well start with a this gun which was designed before the turn of the century. This post will not answer that question, it is simply a look at the history and development of the magnum auto pistol.įor the purposes of keeping this post to a reasonable length I will not be including cartridges that are lower powered than the. So why have so many people tried to build something that isn't any better than the revolver? Magnum revolvers are bulky, but so are the magnum autos. The magnum auto is certainly not more reliable or less complex, in fact the opposite is true. In a magnum auto you might get a one or two round advantage over that of a six shot revolver. Typically the advantage of a self-loading pistol over a revolver is increased capacity. I have never really understood the allure of a magnum auto pistol. I started down a rabbit hole when looking up info on the Wildey Survivor and discovered a few tidbits that I thought I would share with you. This post is about the semi-auto pistols that have been made over the years to fire magnum cartridges.

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