In the game World of Guns, the first gun unlocked by the player is the Remington double-barrelEdlinger pistol. This pistol is small and rounded, with two barrels, and when many people talk about the Delinger pistol, the first thing that comes to mind is Remington Delinger, and today we will talk about it.
The designer of the Remington Delinger pistol was William H. Elliot, who was not a gunman, he was a dentist, but he had a strong interest in weapon design, and in his spare time, he often indulged in the pocket pistol design that was very popular at the time.
Elliott's cooperation with the Remington Company began in 1861, when Elliott designed a 5-barrel pepper box pistol that fired .22 short bullets on the edge (the so-called pepper box pistol refers to a pistol with multiple barrels, each barrel containing one bullet, fired sequentially, because the muzzle has multiple holes similar to pepper bottle caps), which attracted the interest of Remington and signed a production contract with him to bring his design to the market. After his first success, Elliott designed a 4-barrel pepper box pistol for Remington, and the modified pistol was also produced and sold by Remington. Although these two pistols had a good response to the U.S. civilian weapons market at the time, they were not very famous. It wasn't until 1866 that Elliott's .41-inch edge-firing twin-barrelEdlinger pistol became a sensation and was a great success.
The Remington double-barrel Driinger pistol is simple, rugged and compact. The gun is less than 127mm long, weighs 11 ounces (about 0.31kg), is small and thin, and is ideal for concealment in coats, coats, and boots. The two barrels of the gun are arranged up and down, the root of the upper barrel is connected with the bottom handle of the gun with a hinge, the barrel release handle above the trigger on the right side of the gun body is rotated 180° during loading, and then the entire barrel is turned upwards, exposing the breech loading port, after loading two bullets, the barrel is folded downwards, re-fastened with the bottom handle, and the barrel release handle is turned back, and it can be fired. After firing two rounds, you need to reopen the locking handle, flip the barrel upwards, push the hook handle on the left side of the barrel, push the two empty shells out, and then reload again.
When the Remington double-barrel Delinger pistol is loaded, the barrel is turned upwards, notice that the barrel release handle above the trigger turns to the front, that is, the open position.
Because the Remington Driinger pistol was too small, no trigger guard was designed, and its trigger was exposed. In order to improve safety, Remington Delinger's trigger force is relatively large, with more than 22N. The gun does not have a separate manual insurance, but like the contemporaneous revolver, there is a deep semi-standby card slot at the bottom of the hammer, usually the hammer is slowly put into the semi-standby card slot, it can be put into the holster, pocket to carry, to use the time to pull out the pistol manually pull down the hammer to the position to be shot, and then shoot. The gun has the most basic aiming mechanism, with a fixed crosshair at the front of the barrel and a groove at the hinge of the barrel and the bottom of the gun as a shooting door, which can be aimed at close range.
Remington Delinger has two upper and lower barrels, how does it fire in turn? The answer is by a ratchet on the hammer. The gun has a ratchet on the hammer shaft, and the ratchet teeth of the ratchet are alternately arranged one deep and one shallow; The hammer has a firing pin that rotates up and down, and the convex angle under the firing pin is stuck in the ratchet teeth of the ratchet. When firing the first shot, the convex angle under the firing pin is stuck in the deep ratchet of the ratchet, and the tip of the firing pin is down, firing the bullet in the barrel below; After the first shot, the hammer is manually crushed (the Remington Delinger pistol is a one-handed gun, and the hammer is manually crushed after firing), at this time the ratchet rotates a grid, the convex angle under the firing pin snaps into the shallow ratchet of the ratchet, the firing pin tip is raised, aimed at the upper barrel, and then the trigger is fired at the bullet in the upper barrel. In this way, through the rotation of the ratchet, the ratchet teeth are one deep and one shallow, and the angle of the firing pin can be controlled, and the bullets of the two barrels can be fired alternately.
When the first shot is fired, the convex angle under the firing pin is stuck in the deep teeth of the ratchet, and the firing pin hits the bullet in the lower barrel
After the first shot is fired, the hammer is pressed backwards by hand, the ratchet rotates a grid counterclockwise, the convex angle of the firing pin is stuck into the shallow teeth of the ratchet, and the firing pin is raised, and the trigger is pulled at this time to fire the bullet in the upper barrel.
The Remington Delinger pistol fires a .41-inch edge-firing short bullet. This bullet used the popular edge fire at that time, the total length of 23.2mm, the shell length of 11.9mm, the warhead is a naked lead warhead, heavy 8g, the initial speed of 130m/s, muzzle kinetic energy 71J, and today's pistol ammunition ratio, this .41-inch edge fire short bullet power is very small, can only be used at close range, the penetration is also relatively poor, heavy clothing, thick books can block this bullet, but The Delinger pistol is used at a very close distance, plus the power of many small revolvers at that time is also this level , so the small and smooth Remington Delinger pistol is still quite popular.
.41 inch edge fire short bullet
The Remington Delinger pistol is exquisitely treated, with two treatments of blue and nickel plating on the metal surface of the gun body, and there are also two kinds of grips, one is a hard rubber grip with a checkered anti-slip pattern, and the other is a polished smooth walnut grip. In addition, the Remington Delinger pistol also has a luxurious custom version, according to customer needs using mother-of-pearl, ivory as the grip material, carved pattern, inlaid with gold and silver gemstones, these luxurious custom version of Remington Delinger is a precious collection.
This Remington Driinger gun has a blue finish and a meshed hard rubber grip piece
The gun is nickel-plated and has a walnut grip piece
The body is nickel-plated, carved and grip pieces of the custom Remington Delinger pistol with ivory pieces
Due to the great success of the Remington double-barrel Delinger pistol, many products imitating its structure appeared in later generations. For example, the American Derringer Corporation (American Derringer Corporation) launched a Model 1 Driinger pistol in 1980, which is highly similar to the remington double-barrel Delinger pistol, and it is also two barrels, with many calibers, from .22LR, .380ACP... To the .45 Long Colt (.45 inch Colt revolver long bullet, not the .45ACP), the .45-70 Goverment, a total of more than 60 calibers.
.357Mag caliber Model 1 Delinger pistol
Bond Arms in the United States also introduced a pistol that mimicd the Remington double-barrel Delinger in 1995, called Bond Arms Derringer. The biggest selling point of this pistol is the use of the .45 Long Colt caliber, which can fire both .45 Long Colt revolver bullets and .410-inch shotgun shells of the same diameter (in fact, the .45 Long Colt caliber Model 1 Oflinger of the United States can also be fired). Similar design, can be compatible with revolver bullets and .410 shotgun shells of the revolver Caiyun has been introduced (for details: revolver shotgun shells, what is this commotion operation?). ), the .45/.410 caliber Delinger pistol has the advantage of being thinner and smaller, which is conducive to concealment.
The .45 Long Colt caliber Bond Arms Derringer is compatible with revolver cartridges and .410 shotguns
The biggest advantage of the Delinger pistol with the double/multi-barrel structure compared with the same caliber revolver and automatic pistol is that the structure is simple, small and thin. Automatic pistols and revolvers are difficult to compress the volume of the whole gun to hit the .45-inch pistol, but the Delinger pistol can be made smaller because it abandons the sleeve, revolver, and feed tool, as a spare pocket gun, and take out a hammer at a critical moment. However, the Delinger pistol also has obvious shortcomings, in addition to the less spare bullets that everyone can think of, it is a fully rigid structure, there is no tube retreat automatic pistol delay unlocking, sleeve recoil, shell and other actions to cushion the recoil, so the recoil feels particularly hard, especially shocking. According to foreign gun friends, the Remington double-barrelEdringer shot that fired the .41-inch edge fire bomb was very shocking, and the recoil felt larger, and if the .45 Long Colt bullet or .410 shotgun shell was fired, it would be a very uncomfortable and even painful experience, which also limited the development of this type of Dryinger pistol.