Research on Mao Se Brothers Pistol

Mao Se brothers not only made great success in rifle research, but also made remarkable achievements in pistol research. They studied various types of pistols, such as revolvers and automatic pistols. Some of the pistols he developed have only been used in the laboratory, and some have been mass-produced and equipped with a large number of armies of various countries.

The pistols developed by Mao Se Brothers mainly include: 1877 pistol, 1886 pistol, Mao Se revolver, 96 Mao Se pistol and 1909 pistol. This paper mainly introduces the Type 96 Mao Se pistol and revolver.

Type 96 Mao Se pistol, also called "broom pistol", is a world-famous pistol. The earliest model (or the first sample gun) of this gun was not developed by Mao Se himself, but the subsequent improvement and perfection included the hard work of Paul Mao Se. This kind of gun was originally developed by three brothers Federer, the head of the trial workshop in Mao Se factory, and later applied for a patent in the name of Mao Se.

Type 96 Mao Se pistol has a unique shape, a square body, a slender barrel and a round handle. The magazine is located in front of the trigger, which is easy to identify from the appearance. It adopts the principle of automatic pipe shrinkage. After firing, the bolt and barrel will bounce back together. After moving 2.5mm, the bolt moves away from the barrel and continues to recoil, completing the shell pulling and throwing, and then re-entering under the action of the re-entry spring, pushing the bullet into the human body chamber to complete a cycle.

There are three kinds of revolvers developed in Mao Se: 1878 Z-shaped revolver, 1878 articulated revolver and 1878 Nurungen revolver. None of these three revolvers has achieved commercial benefits. However, some of their mechanisms are ingenious. For example, the Z-type revolver is an integral frame, and its revolver mechanism is unique. There are a series of Z-shaped negative lines on the wheel, which are consistent with a pin moving back and forth in the shell. When the hammer is waiting to be struck, the pin moves forward and turns the wheel for one sixth of a turn. After firing, the firing pin returns to the gun tail along the negative line. After hammering, this pin is the positioning part of the wheel. The other two kinds of revolvers also have their own characteristics.

These three pistols have three calibers of 7.6 mm, 9 mm and 10.6 mm, which were originally used to replace the 10.6 mm integrated revolver equipped by the German army. However, due to the official ordnance experts' views on the complexity of Mao Se's revolver wheel and rotating mechanism, Mao Se's revolver was never installed.