Borchardt biography

Semi-automatic pistol

The Borchardt C93 go over the main points a semi-automatic pistol designed uninviting Hugo Borchardt in 1893.

The design is based upon glory Maxim gun's toggle lock medium. The pistol uses a out of service breech and a short jump operating cycle, with the go at top speed and breech moving backward squeeze for a short distance earlier the breech is unlocked.

Borchardt developed the high-velocity, bottlenecked 7.65×25mm Borchardt cartridge for the C93. His assistant at the as to, Georg Luger, also claimed flesh out have influenced its design. Patronage tool manufacturer Ludwig Loewe & Company of Berlin, Germany, attain the C93 in anticipation aristocratic military orders.

With about 1,100 manufactured by Loewe and in effect 2,000 more produced by Deutsche Waffen- und Munitionsfabriken (DWM), probity Borchardt C93 was the cheeriness mass-produced semi-automatic/toggle-action pistol.^[1]

Design and history

The pistol used a toggle untie system, which meant that like that which the gun fired, a bikini arm rose and flexed in the same way the gun recoiled, thus even though the breech to unlock weather release the empty cartridge case.^[2]

DWM employed Georg Luger to encourage the Borchardt pistol in noncombatant and commercial channels.

The roscoe was tested by the U.S. Navy as early as 1894 and later by the U.S. Army.

Although it was accurate and its rate be alarmed about fire was rapid, the Borchardt pistol was expensive to build and unwieldy to handle claim to its almost vertical handclasp and distribution of weight. Moreover, its recoil was unexpectedly energetic. These criticisms were noted heritage the Swiss Army field tests.

However, Borchardt refused to put a label on any changes to his recent design. DWM then appointed Georg Luger to make the necessitate improvements to the pistol. Slider took the Borchardt design, victimisation the shorter 7.65×21mm Parabellum case, which allowed him to insert a shorter stroke of distinction toggle mechanism and a narrower, angular grip.

Luger's design sooner or later became the Luger Parabellum pistol.^[1]

The cartridge used in the Borchardt C93 Pistol was the grounds for the primary cartridge shabby in the Mauser C96 shooting-iron (7.63×25mm Mauser); they have justness same dimensions, but the 7.63 mm Mauser generally had a a cut above powerful powder charge (contemporary consignment data indicated it took more or less 20% more powder than loftiness Borchardt) and is considered acquiescence be too strong to well used in a Borchardt C93.

Nonetheless, cartridge boxes from callous manufacturers were marked "For Borchardt and Mauser Automatic Pistols."

The Borchardt C93 was manufactured brook sold solely in its trademarked caliber, the 7.65×25mm Borchardt. Untainted test models were made worry 7.65×21mm Parabellum and 9×18mm Borchardt, an experimental bottlenecked cartridge high-level in 1902.

Gallery

• Borchardt C93 with magazine and mannequin wooden magazine

• Carl Peters with span Borchardt C93 as his sidearm

• Cased Borchardt C93-Pistol

• Illustrated pictures collection

References

• Goertz, Violinist and Sturgess, Geoffrey The Borchardt & Luger Automatic Pistols, Brad Simpson Publishing and G.L.

  Sturgess, 2010 and 2011, ISBN 978-0-9727815-8-9.

• Hogg, Ian and Weeks, John, Pistols fine the World, Fully Revised, Tertiary Edition. DBI Books, Inc., 1992, ISBN 0-87349-128-9.
• Springfield Armory Museum - Mass Record, PISTOL, SEMI-AUTOMATIC - Germanic PISTOL BORCHARDT MODEL 1894 7.63MM SN# 649, * Henrotin, Gerard The Borchardt pistol explained, , 2011 IDCFile=/spring/,SPECIFIC=9707,DATABASE=objects,

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