{"id":22468,"date":"2016-06-09T08:00:04","date_gmt":"2016-06-09T13:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2016\/06\/09\/smith-wesson-model-1913-automatic-pistols\/"},"modified":"2016-06-09T08:00:04","modified_gmt":"2016-06-09T13:00:04","slug":"smith-wesson-model-1913-automatic-pistols","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2016\/06\/09\/smith-wesson-model-1913-automatic-pistols\/","title":{"rendered":"Smith &#038; Wesson Model 1913 Automatic Pistols"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mejs-video-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allow=\"autoplay\" width=\"580\" height=\"380\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/oUGyJfsorq4?controls=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Smith &#038; Wesson&#8217;s first venture into the autoloading pistol market was done under the leadership of Joe Wesson, Daniel Wesson&#8217;s son. He was quite the automatic pistol enthusiast, and made an agreement to license patents of Liege designer Charles Clement for adaptation into a pistol for the US market.<\/p>\n<p>The resulting Model 1913 featured a hinged barrel assembly for easy cleaning and a very light bolt with a mainspring disconnector, so the bolt could be cycled without fighting the recoil spring. It also had both a manual safety and a grip safety. However, its most recognized feature was the use of a proprietary .35 S&#038;W cartridge. Despite the name, this was basically a slightly underpowered .32 ACP with a &#8220;half-mantle&#8221; bullet &#8211; the nose was jackets to prevent deformation while the bearing surface was left unjacketed to reduce barrel wear. While this was potentially quite popular, S&#038;W&#8217;s marketing failed to properly exploit it.<\/p>\n<p>The .35 S&#038;W version of the Model 1913 saw production of about 8350 pistols between 1913 and 1921. In 1924 the design was reintroduced in a simplified form. This new model was chambered for the standard .32ACP cartridge form the get-go, and it also abandoned the manual safety and the tip-up barrel system originally licensed from Clement. It failed to gain traction, with less than a thousand guns made, and the last of them not sold until 1937.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Smith &#038; Wesson&#8217;s first venture into the autoloading pistol market was done under the leadership of Joe Wesson, Daniel Wesson&#8217;s son. He was quite the automatic pistol enthusiast, and made an agreement to license patents of Liege designer Charles Clement for adaptation into a pistol for the US market. The resulting Model 1913 featured a&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2016\/06\/09\/smith-wesson-model-1913-automatic-pistols\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Smith &#038; Wesson Model 1913 Automatic Pistols<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":22469,"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-22468","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\/22468","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=22468"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22468\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}