Читать книгу Gun Digest 2011 онлайн

298 страница из 495

I therefore imagined a new “lookalike” single-shot version of the famous old Colt. If produced at an extremely low sales price, would have an immediate sales appeal as a boy’s first handgun. I have always considered that the safety and simplicity of a single-shot was mandatory for a novice’s first gun. Too many careless and unnecessary accidents have been caused by beginners with repeating firearms.

The solution to this problem was to load the pistol directly by passing the barrel through a false, non-rotating cylinder. This combined unit was rotated to the right side of the frame for easy and safe extracting or loading. When the unit is rotated back to the firing position, the hammer remained in the safe rebound position and had to be be manually cocked to fire. I made the layout and the finished detail drawings for this design and enlisted the excellent tool makers of the Bellmore Johnson Tool Co. to build the prototype for the proposed production gun.

The 1961 Gun Digest featured two Hillberg-designed pistols on the same page: the Whitney Wolverine and the Savage M101.