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Type I: Serial numbers from 1 to 71,999.

32 Pocket Model and numerous sub- variants (not all of which will be described here). Over the 44 years of production (1903-1946) there were four or five major variants of the. It differed only in the bore of the barrel, the width of the extractor, and the width of the magazine well.

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The trigger and manual safety lever were given a brilliant fire blue. The guns were heat blued and polished with oil-soaked leather. The quality of workmanship and finish on theД®arly versions of this gun were the finest in the world at the time. The sear,Дisconnector, hammer, and all springs were mounted in the receiver behind the magazine well, as was the grip safety.

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The barrel was firmly secured to the receiver by a series of lugs on the underside which mated with slots in the receiver. The Model 1903 had the recoil spring beneath the barrel. The gun could also be disassembled without tools, which was another military preference. Must eventually have realized that it was not so for everyone and he needed to make his pistols as safe as possible. Having grown up in a gun shop, firearms safety required little thought for him, but he Military feedback on the 1900 Colt Automatic Pistol had influenced BrowningвЂ™s design philosophy. Might possibly be considered complex or extraneous was the grip safety, which most imitators omitted, but the 1903 was one of the first guns ever manufactured with a grip safety. The hallmark of the 1903 design was its simplicity, which helped make it the most copied pistol in the world.

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The 1903 Colt Pocket Model was considerably smaller than the 1903 FN Grande ModГЁle (which did not go into full production until 1907). The internal factory designation for the gun was Model M. 38 caliber pocket model, Colt also referred to it as the Colt Hammerless Pocket Model, though it is not a true hammerless design. version.Д¬oltвЂ™s did not wait for the patent to be granted, but began tooling up late in 1902, and began production of what they called the вЂњColt Automatic Pistol, Pocket ModelвЂќ in June 1903.Д¬ommercial sales began in August. patent, which was filed on 3 April 1902 and granted on 22 December 1903 (в„–747,585), but that was the only design change he made for the U.S. Make at least 100 guns per day and sell them at a price that would be competitive with revolvers in the U.S., as well as give him a 40 cent royalty on every gun produced. Because of its larger size, it became known as the вЂњGrande ModГЁle.вЂќДЄt this point, ColtвЂ™s was looking for an automatic pistol that would have the kind of commercial success that the 1900 FNД«rowning had had, and despite its blowback action they asked Browning to patent his FN design in the U.S.

Browning, who was in his prime, delivered a prototype of the pistol to the FN factory in Herstal,Д«elgium in February 1902, and FN engineers immediately began improving the design and readying it for production. FN asked Browning to design a gun for it. It was nothing more than a scaled-up 7.65mmД«rowning (.32 A.C.P), with the same straight case and semi-rimmed design. FN designed a 9mm cartridge which became known as the 9mm Browning Long. By contrast, the original 1900 Colt Automatic Pistol had a total production run of less than 5000.ДЄs early as 1901 FN was anxious to put a larger military pistol on the market. The FN was a stunning commercial success, with a production record of 100,000 pistols within three years and a total production of 724,450 over twelve years. 32 caliber, and the following year ColtвЂ™s began to manufacture the Colt Automatic Pistol in. So it was that FN manufactured the 1899/1900 FN Browning in.

According to Donald Bady, tacit in theseДЄgreements was the understanding that ColtвЂ™s would manufacture BrowningвЂ™s locked-breech recoil-operated designs and FN would manufacture the unlocked-breech вЂњblowbackвЂќ designs. Browning and Fabrique Nationale (FN) signed a similarДЄgreement giving FN the right to sell Browning-designed weapons in much of Europe, and specifically excluding them from markets in the United States, Great Britain, and Ireland. BrowningвЂ™s pistol designs in the United States and market them in the United States, Great Britain, and Ireland. The agreement gave ColtвЂ™s the exclusive right to Browning entered into an agreement with The ColtвЂ™s Patent Firearms Manufacturing Company. On 24 July 1896 John Moses Browning and Matthew S.

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