Another weird... oddity of a pistol I dug up locally.. a 6.35mm made in Austria in 1910 by OEWG Steyr. It was made for a few years prior and then after WW1, and there is also a larger .32acp model. It was designed and patented by Nicolas Pieper of Liege, Belgium. It has a flip up barrel and can be loaded as single shot or used as a semiauto fed from the magazine. The magazine has 2 slots to accommodate either function. Also, there is no extractor, it is truly blowback...and known to jamb per the interweb, could be an ammo issue, who knows. These were also reported to be used as police/military officer pistols as well. The bore is kind of frosty but it has decent rifling...there is no import stamps.. so it might be a bring back..or it was imported well before stamps were required. And shockingly, the hard rubber grips are in great shape for being a 109 years old, usually they are crumbling or chipping apart.
The barrel is about 2.25 inches long, it barely weighs 12oz empty and hold 6+1 rounds.
The bolt and bolt face, also there is no recoil spring behind the bolt.
The recoil spring is located behind this screw above the barrel.. I'm currently working to get the screw out. It's very difficult to cock it, I have done some cleaning, but it feels kind of gritty and gummy, I have no clue when it was last deep cleaned.
This is the magazine latch slots, the upper slot is for single loading using the flip up barrel, bump it to the bottom and you feed from the magazine. And getting the magazine out, is no easy task, you need fingernails cause there is little to even grab, it fits tight, plus you have to hold the release latch at the same time.
The awesome user friendly sights, and you can see where the bolt latches to the front spring section on the top of the barrel, in the third picture, the hook on the top rear of the barrel holds the sections together during firing.
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