{"id":8347,"date":"2016-08-31T12:00:02","date_gmt":"2016-08-31T12:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2016\/08\/31\/muller-1895-curved-recoil-pistol\/"},"modified":"2020-07-22T16:27:45","modified_gmt":"2020-07-22T21:27:45","slug":"muller-1895-curved-recoil-pistol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2016\/08\/31\/muller-1895-curved-recoil-pistol\/","title":{"rendered":"M\u00fcller 1895 Curved-Recoil Pistol"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"youtubomatic-video-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"580\" height=\"380\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/WnnrJcO1TVw?controls=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Sold for $10,350.<\/p>\n<p>The model 1895 M\u00fcller automatic pistol is an interesting and unusual design, despite being a simple blowback action. Where most pistols have a bolt or slide that moved directly rearward, the M\u00fcller pushes the bolt in a semicircular arc into its grip. This is similar to the Swedish Hamilton trials pistol that would come a few years later, and somewhat akin to the much more recent Kriss Vector design.<\/p>\n<p>I was unable to find any reference to the M\u00fcller in any trials documents, so I don&#8217;t know if it was a competitor in any of the European military handgun competitions. For that matter, I&#8217;m not sure exactly what cartridge it used, beyond the 7.5mm bore diameter.<\/p>\n<p>Related:<br \/>\nSwedish Hamilton trials pistol: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=EWW5IFEGITI\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=EWW5IFEGITI<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.patreon.com\/ForgottenWeapons\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/www.patreon.com\/ForgottenWeapons<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sold for $10,350. The model 1895 M\u00fcller automatic pistol is an interesting and unusual design, despite being a simple blowback action. Where most pistols have a bolt or slide that moved directly rearward, the M\u00fcller pushes the bolt in a semicircular arc into its grip. This is similar to the Swedish Hamilton trials pistol that&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2016\/08\/31\/muller-1895-curved-recoil-pistol\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">M\u00fcller 1895 Curved-Recoil Pistol<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":8348,"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-8347","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\/8347","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=8347"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8347\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15201,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8347\/revisions\/15201"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}