Boberg XR9

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Sexy pistol with a very unique action:

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More info here:
http://www.thefirearmblog.com/blog/2008/02/07/boberg-xr9-high-tech-pocket-pistol/
 
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one of the members was selling pistol like this one about 2 month ago. i'm pretty sure he asked way over 1 grand for it. while i like this design from engineering stand point price was too steep for me and what it is.
 
dnepro-mike said:
one of the members was selling pistol like this one about 2 month ago. i'm pretty sure he asked way over 1 grand for it. while i like this design from engineering stand point price was too steep for me and what it is.
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FWIW, outside of MA, the going price for these is about $1000 depending on which model you get.

Overrated and overpriced in my opinion.
 
This is a cool gun that will likely become a collectors item more or less, because it will fail commercially. Otherwise its an answer to a question nobody asked. Even guns like the Rohrbaugh R9 have more of a market than that thing does.

A light rail... seriously? [rofl] Nobody wants that shit on a gun that is supposed to be "trim".

-Mike
 
drgrant said:
This is a cool gun that will likely become a collectors item more or less, because it will fail commercially. Otherwise its an answer to a question nobody asked. Even guns like the Rohrbaugh R9 have more of a market than that thing does.

A light rail... seriously? [rofl] Nobody wants that shit on a gun that is supposed to be "trim".

-Mike
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I think the question asked was:
"How do I fit a longer barrel into a small gun?"

Seems like a pretty good question to me.
 
New designs have to start somewhere. If you followed the project you would know this is little guy American innovation at its finest. Because of that this gun is on my long list.

Mike

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crazymjb said:
New designs have to start somewhere. If you followed the project you would know this is little guy American innovation at its finest. Because of that this gun is on my long list.

Mike

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i'm pretty sure that i've read about this 'pull round backwards' design somewhere.
back at the dawn of semi-automtic, before people actually were designing new things instead of, cloning Browning's ideas there was some dude in early 1900s, i think in europe (britain or france) that had this very similar design where rounds were pulled out of the stack towards the rear. i'll try to find whom and where it was if I can, but i suspect i read it in the book some 15 years ago.
 
I have done a little reading on this, pistol, apparently it is very picky about what ammo you feed it. If the bullet isn't held tightly enough in the case mouth, then the bullet can pop out of the round when the round is yanked backwards by the feed mechanism.

http://www.bobergarms.com/forum/topics/boberg-compatible-ammunition

Neat idea, but I personally wouldn't want to deal with a gun that has such issues with so much of the ammo on the market.
 
dnepro-mike said:
i'm pretty sure that i've read about this 'pull round backwards' design somewhere.
back at the dawn of semi-automtic, before people actually were designing new things instead of, cloning Browning's ideas there was some dude in early 1900s, i think in europe (britain or france) that had this very similar design where rounds were pulled out of the stack towards the rear. i'll try to find whom and where it was if I can, but i suspect i read it in the book some 15 years ago.
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The pull the round backward idea has been around for a while... its how the M2 strips them from the belt. This is still the first re-working for production scale implamentation in a handgun that I know about.

Mike

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crazymjb said:
The pull the round backward idea has been around for a while... its how the M2 strips them from the belt. This is still the first re-working for production scale implamentation in a handgun that I know about.

Mike

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Yeah, for MG. I was talking about handguns.
 
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