There is photo evidence of this as well, including one Arizona lawman carrying a Luger in a Mexican-style drop loop holster, and the famous picture of that Sheriff from Anadarko Oklahoma Territory with his shoulder-stocked Broomhandle Mauser. 38 ACP Models 1900, 1902, and 1903 semi-autos, as well as imported guns like the FN 1900, Mauser and Luger Parabellum. There are numerous cases of early 20 th century lawmen carrying not only traditional single actions but new Colt and S&W double actions, Colt’s. Proof that new guns and old ways managed to harmonize in the west.

This early 1900s Arizona lawman carried a new Luger Parabellum in a Mexican-style double drop loop holster. through New York City retailer Von Lengerke & Detmold, which imported 1,922 Broomhandle Mauser pistols between 18. By the very early 1900s the Broomhandle Mauser was being sold in the U.S. Nevertheless, the Broomhandle Mauser had left a lasting impression on America. Army Board of Officers stayed with revolvers as a standard issue sidearm until the Colt Model 1911 was introduced. government for field trials (Model 1900 and improved Model 1902) but in the end, the U.S. Hundreds of the new Colt semi-auto models were purchased by the U.S. Those tests were continued through December and into February of 1900 which compared the 7.63mm Mauser Broomhandle, along with a 7.63mm Mannlicher self-loader (and a Model 1900 Borchardt-Luger tested in 1902-1903), all of which eventually lost out in trials to the new John M. Army Board of Officers (Ordnance Department) began considering the adoption of self-loaders as a military issue sidearm. The Model 1895 Broomhandle Mauser had already made such an impact in America that by 1899 the U.S. (Photo courtesy Western History Collections, University of Oklahoma) At the top is Sheriff Thompson’s shoulder-stocked Broomhandle. In this photo, Anadarko, Oklahoma Territory Sheriff James Thompson and his deputies are displaying their guns for photographer Annette Ross Hume. Introduced in 1896, by the time this photo was taken, likely between 19, western lawmen were already carrying semi-autos. The Mauser Broomhandle, or C96, was one of the earliest and most successful semiautomatic pistols. It was, however, the German influence that made one of the most stunning contributions to the change from revolvers to semiautomatics, not only by lawmen and outlaws, but the U.S. The later version is historically noted as being among the handguns carried by Cheyenne, Wyoming, Deputy Sheriff Richard Proctor, who arrested Tom Horn for murder in 1902. He had also patented a semi-auto design for Fabrique Nationale in Belgium which became the 7.65mm (.32 ACP) Model 1899-FN and improved Model 1900-FN. The first successful American made semi-auto pistols were manufactured by Colt and designed by John M.

By 1900, a slow but continual shift from traditional revolvers to semiautomatic handguns was taking place. There once was a Sheriff from Anadarko, and no, that’s not the beginning of a limerick, but it is the beginning of a change in handguns that swept across what remained of the American West at the turn of the century. By Dennis Adler The Umarex Legends Broomhandle Mauser Model 712 is one of the most accurate to the original airguns ever produced.

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