{"id":6657,"date":"2016-07-20T13:00:01","date_gmt":"2016-07-20T13:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/candrdigital.com\/index.php\/2016\/07\/20\/roth-steyr-1907-at-a-run-n-gun-steel-match\/"},"modified":"2020-07-22T16:28:55","modified_gmt":"2020-07-22T21:28:55","slug":"roth-steyr-1907-at-a-run-n-gun-steel-match","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2016\/07\/20\/roth-steyr-1907-at-a-run-n-gun-steel-match\/","title":{"rendered":"Roth Steyr 1907 at a Run-n-Gun Steel Match"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"youtubomatic-video-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"580\" height=\"380\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-xvCNEUnT4Y?controls=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.patreon.com\/ForgottenWeapons\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/www.patreon.com\/ForgottenWeapons<\/a><\/p>\n<p>We have a monthly pistol competition here called Steelworkers &#8211; a bunch of stages of all steel targets. I finally accumulated enough stripper clips for my 1907 Roth-Steyr to be able to compete, so I figured I should give it a run!<\/p>\n<p>The 1907 was used by the Austro-Hungarian cavalry, and is in my opinion one of the best pistols of World War I. It is a solid and durable design firing a reasonably powerful cartridge (for the time, at least &#8211; 8mm Steyr is a 113gr projectile at about 1070fps) and with reasonable sights and good handling. It is mechanically innovative, with a firing mechanism functionally identical to today&#8217;s &#8220;safe-action&#8221; systems. The striker is halfway cocked by the action of the gun cycling, and the remaining half is done by the trigger press. The 1907 uses a proprietary stripper clip holding 10 rounds, with a movable follower built in. Pressing down on the clip&#8217;s follower puts an even pressure on the cartridges, helping to make it a very smooth design to use &#8211; I would rate it as equal or better than any other type of stripper clip I have used.<\/p>\n<p>Overall I took 17th place of 21 shooters &#8211; although on stage #1 I am very pleased to have taken 10th! The strong hand and weak hand requirements there clearly helped me level the playing field. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>http:\/\/www.patreon.com\/ForgottenWeapons We have a monthly pistol competition here called Steelworkers &#8211; a bunch of stages of all steel targets. I finally accumulated enough stripper clips for my 1907 Roth-Steyr to be able to compete, so I figured I should give it a run! The 1907 was used by the Austro-Hungarian cavalry, and is in my&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2016\/07\/20\/roth-steyr-1907-at-a-run-n-gun-steel-match\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Roth Steyr 1907 at a Run-n-Gun Steel Match<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":6658,"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-6657","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\/6657","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=6657"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6657\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15253,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6657\/revisions\/15253"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}