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Thanks for sharing the beautiful pictures and especially some history on these fine guns.
 
Posts: 1218 | Location: Hampton Roads | Registered: February 13, 2009Reply With QuoteReport This Post
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Those are magnificent!

The workmanship, machining, fit and finish, etc., looks incredible!!

The 'Faberge Egg' of pistols!!

Thank you for sharing!!

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It is always interesting to see how gun design reflects the dogma and doctrine of its day. While it may be unfair to judge a gun without having ever shot or even held it, I believe I see at least a couple design features that would be less than ideal in today's understanding and emphasis on ergonomics.

I'd bet that thin grooved trigger might be a tad hard on the trigger finger after several rounds.

Also, and again its unfair to categorically state this based on only seeing two samples, but I believe that perhaps Herr Korth may have found ways to improve upon his already high quality initial offerings observed in the later one.

It's also interesting that Herr Korth chose to update the trigger guard to reflect the trend of the time, but elected to stay with a single stack design instead of transitioning to the "Wonder 9" trend also popular at that time...although admittedly that would have required a major design change.

I'm always interested to see how different manufacturers implement their respective level of quality in their designs. Might we see some pictures of the gun field stripped and its inner workings?

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Wow! Exquisite.


That is precisely my impression as well...exquisite!


Its not an updated trigger guard. Those two are only a year apart and there are much later examples with the rounded guard. They did them both ways.
 
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Any idea what else came from the factory in the empty cutouts in the box? Something boring like a cleaning kit, or something more interesting?
 
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Any idea what else came from the factory in the empty cutouts in the box? Something boring like a cleaning kit, or something more interesting?


Nothing

Optional barrels could be ordered (both long length and standard, hence the longer cut out), but generally weren’t. In fact, I don't think they were even offered yet with the early guns. The cases were made for ideas in the future.

Even one I've seen pictures of, the cut outs were empty.
 
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Its not an updated trigger guard. Those two are only a year apart and there are much later examples with the rounded guard. They did them both ways.


Ah ok. I noticed the close proximity of the build dates, but didn't realize that later builds were still available with the earlier style trigger guard. Thanks for clearifying that.
 
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Damn, that's nice!




 
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Beautiful!!!

Thanks for sharing



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Very nice for sure, I had never saw one before now thanks for sharing. Is the barrel fixed?
 
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Now if you could snag one or two of the optional detachable shoulder stocks the set would be complete.
Beautiful Korth Pistols.

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Now if you could snag one or two of the optional detachable shoulder stocks the set would be complete.
Beautiful Korth Pistols.

Racoon reaching through fence....


Thanks

As for the shoulder stocks, that would be quite a task considering they built about three of them.
 
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bac -- It's always a pleasure seeing arms from your collection.
 
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Really, thanks for posting these pics! I have never seen pics of such quality and detail. All I have seen over the years have been grainy "copied from a book" type images.
 
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Really, thanks for posting these pics! I have never seen pics of such quality and detail. All I have seen over the years have been grainy "copied from a book" type images.


Yes sir

I figured to show the "real thing". Its sometimes good to know the guns actually exist apart from pictures in books.

Thanks to everyone for the kind words. Smile
 
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True industrial art


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Very nice for sure, I had never saw one before now thanks for sharing. Is the barrel fixed?


Sorry, missed the question

No sir, its not a fixed barrel. It moves with the frame briefly. It doesn't tilt though. Its a falling block design.
 
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Thanks for sharing those works of art.
 
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Wow, those are all amazing. Thank you for the write up and the pics. I am curious why you say it's not as accurate as a p210 etc? Is it the gun itself is not mechanically accurate or capable of great accuracy, or do you mean it's more difficult to shoot accurately?


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Wow, those are all amazing. Thank you for the write up and the pics. I am curious why you say it's not as accurate as a p210 etc? Is it the gun itself is not mechanically accurate or capable of great accuracy, or do you mean it's more difficult to shoot accurately?


Thanks

I would say both. The bore axis is high for my tastes.
 
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Thanks everyone.

I recently took both Korth Autopistols to the range. I couldn't help but shoot my new one. I put several rounds through each of them and was very impressed. The triggers are very smooth and the reset is extremely short. Accuracy was much better than I remembered. I guess I just needed some more trigger time with the model.

They shoot incredibly softly too. I love them.

I definitely short changed it in the OP.
 
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