The Schwarzlose Model 1898 was a full-size, locked-breech, rotary-bolt,
semi-automatic pistol
A semi-automatic pistol (also called a self-loading pistol, autopistol, or autoloading pistol) is a repeating firearm, repeating handgun that automatically ejects and loads cartridge (firearms), cartridges in its chamber (firearms), chamber afte ...
invented by Prussian firearm designer
Andreas Wilhelm Schwarzlose.
It was chambered for cartridges such as the
7.65×25mm Borchardt
The 7.65×25mm Borchardt cartridge was designed by Georg Johann Luger for use in Hugo Borchardt's Borchardt C-93 pistol. It was the first successful rimless pistol cartridge.
History and design
With a rimless, bottlenecked case using smokeles ...
and
7.63×25mm Mauser.
Most pistols used a six-shot detachable magazine, but a few were built with a larger frame for an eight-shot magazine. The rear sight was vertically adjustable, and the firing pin served as a cocking indicator by protruding to the rear. The Schwarzlose design was advanced for its time, but not widely adopted with less than 500 pieces being manufactured.
Boer
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s during the Boer War
The Second Boer War (, , 11 October 189931 May 1902), also known as the Boer War, Transvaal War, Anglo–Boer War, or South African War, was a conflict fought between the British Empire and the two Boer republics (the South African Republic an ...
. Another lot was sold to members of the Russian Social-Democratic Party who were plotting insurrection, but were confiscated at the Russian border and issued to the Imperial Russian Frontier Guards.
Users
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See also
*Schwarzlose Model 1908
The Schwarzlose Model 1908 was a semi-automatic pistol, designed by Andreas Schwarzlose, released in 1908 in the German Empire and produced until 1911.
Operation
The Schwarzlose employs a very distinctive " blow-forward action" operating m ...
References
External links
Questions and Answers'', P. T. Kekkonen. #17, April 2002. Forgotten Weapons - Schwarzlose 1898 Semiauto Pistol
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19th-century semi-automatic pistols
Semi-automatic pistols of Germany
7.65mm firearms
7.63×25mm Mauser firearms