{"id":17970,"date":"2021-03-20T07:00:06","date_gmt":"2021-03-20T12:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2021\/03\/20\/maxim-silverman-455-caliber-behemoth-of-a-pistol\/"},"modified":"2021-03-20T07:00:06","modified_gmt":"2021-03-20T12:00:06","slug":"maxim-silverman-455-caliber-behemoth-of-a-pistol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2021\/03\/20\/maxim-silverman-455-caliber-behemoth-of-a-pistol\/","title":{"rendered":"Maxim-Silverman .455 Caliber Behemoth of a Pistol"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"youtubomatic-video-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"580\" height=\"380\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Sn3UW-eHl9E?controls=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.patreon.com\/ForgottenWeapons\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/www.patreon.com\/ForgottenWeapons<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.floatplane.com\/channel\/ForgottenWeapons\/home\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.floatplane.com\/channel\/ForgottenWeapons\/home<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Cool Forgotten Weapons merch! <a href=\"http:\/\/shop.bbtv.com\/collections\/forgotten-weapons\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/shop.bbtv.com\/collections\/forgotten-weapons<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Hiram Maxim\u2019s hired shop supervisor was a man named Louis Silverman. He was a skilled engineer, who was treated rather  poorly by Maxim, and whose contributions were systematically understated. One of the most interesting projects Silverman partook in was the design of a self-loading pistol in 1896. A patent was taken out in the names of both he and Maxim, but the lack of discussion by in Maxim\u2019s papers makes it clear that the idea was Silverman\u2019s. <\/p>\n<p>The pistol was simple and efficient; easy to make and quite forward-looking. However, it was crippled by the choice to use cartridges too powerful for its simple blowback operation. Today we are taking a look at the particular massive example made in .455 Webley. The other two regular Maxim-Silverman pistols are rather large, and this one is a true behemoth\u2026<\/p>\n<p>For more information, see my full article on the design, and my video on the surviving 7.65mm Borchardt example:<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.forgottenweapons.com\/maxim-silverman-1896-pistol\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.forgottenweapons.com\/maxim-silverman-1896-pistol\/<\/a><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=F1ElpucXu6A<br\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=F1ElpucXu6A<br<\/a> \/><br \/>Contact:<br \/>Forgotten Weapons<br \/>6281 N. Oracle 36270<br \/>Tucson, AZ 85740<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>http:\/\/www.patreon.com\/ForgottenWeapons https:\/\/www.floatplane.com\/channel\/ForgottenWeapons\/home Cool Forgotten Weapons merch! http:\/\/shop.bbtv.com\/collections\/forgotten-weapons Hiram Maxim\u2019s hired shop supervisor was a man named Louis Silverman. He was a skilled engineer, who was treated rather poorly by Maxim, and whose contributions were systematically understated. One of the most interesting projects Silverman partook in was the design of a self-loading pistol in 1896. A&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2021\/03\/20\/maxim-silverman-455-caliber-behemoth-of-a-pistol\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Maxim-Silverman .455 Caliber Behemoth of a Pistol<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":17971,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[89,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-content","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17970","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17970"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17970\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}