Cartridges

Whilst researching the 8mm M.7 scharfe Pistolepatrone (a.k.a. 8mm Roth-Steyr), I got sidetracked for a while reading about the fascinating history and reasons for European rearmament during the period from 1860 leading up to World War 1. Historians tend to attribute...

Josef Schulhof (1824 - 1890) started out in life as a farmer but moved to Vienna in 1870 to work as a gunmaker. He was apparently a good shot and designed amongst other, a semi auto pistol as well as a rifle, but was more known for his target pistols, which were of...

Josef Schulhof (1824 - 1890) started out in life as a farmer but moved to Vienna in 1870 to work as a gunmaker. According to Rock Island Auction Schulhof patented two firearms, a rifle in 1882 and a manually operated repeating pistol in 1884, but that seems to be in...

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One thing that can be said about early firearm designers, they could get creative. None more so than Norwegian inventor Harald Sunngård. He was granted US Patent 972087 in October 1910 for his Model 1909, and it was based on two assumptions, firstly that, when engaged...

This rare cartridge was developed by a French gunsmith G. Suter in 1895. Erlmeier, Brandt Vol. 1 p.95 describes it as a rimless version of the 8mm M92 Lebel revolver. This would have been one of the very early attempts at designing a semi-auto pistol. The specimen on...

This was an interesting design by Italian inventor Catello Tribuzio from Turin. He was granted a patent for his palm-squeeze pocket pistol in 1890. There were a number of these palm-squeeze pistols (Gaulois, Protector, Merveilleux) with the Tribuzio maybe the rarest...

This was a design by French designer Charles-François Galand (1832–1900). His original design was an open frame, double action revolver patented in 1868. It was manufactured in both 9mm and 12mm variations. The long extractor lever, serving as the trigger guard made...

There is very little info on the 8mm Ultra, all of which is duplicated on various websites. The consensus info is that it was a Gustaf Genschow & Co. development around 1934 for a Walther PP in order to provide an intermediate powered cartridge between the 7.65...

The 8.5mm Mars was one of four cartridges developed by Hugh Gabbett-Fairfax for submission to military trials in the beginning of the 20th century. The 8.5mm was different from the 9mm/360, 45 Short and 45 Long as the 8.5mm was submitted for the French trials. This...

Grey injection moulded plastic case with plastic bullet. SAPL is a family-owned French company, Société d'Application des Procédés Lefebvre. According to the WRI website, the company was founded in 1983 by Jean Lefebvre and its main business is the manufacturing of...