It had a seven-shot magazine capacity, and a grip-safety-onlyĪcceptance by Hungary's armed forces was quickly forthcomingĪnd production commenced at about serial number 50,000, where M29 380 caliber,Ģ7-ounce auto pistol with a 6-3/4-inch overall length and a 4-inchīarrel. Thus was the Model 37 created, through elimination of this needlessĬomplexity (a unit construction slide was substituted) and through a few Someone in authority that the "separate bolt unit" notion was Hungarians-and some 50,000 were crafted before it finally occurred to Immediately declared Hungarian service issue-its. Manually cycle the action (in most guns, gripping serrations are cut This collar was serrated and was what one grasped in order to Separate "bolt unit" inside the slide by means of a slideĬlosure collar mounted on the aft end of the slide. Hungary's first simple Browning-style blowback service design itsĬhief claim to uniqueness lay in its unusual method of retaining a Introduced in the year of the Great Depression. Progressive development of a very similar arm, the Piztoly 29 Menta, Hungarian)-also known as the Fegyvergyar 37 or Femaru 37-was a Pisztoly 37 Menta (simply "Pitsol Model 37" in Let'sĮxamine, chronologically, the tale of this really quite interesting Though its early models lack any safe readiness mode. What's more, it's still around today inĬonsiderable numbers and, as a design, it's really not bad at all Teapots to rocket fighters, seems to be of interest to arms enthusiasts). Luftwaffe, no less (everything that served in the Luftwaffe, from Thing, a major type as over a quarter-million were made.įor another thing, it saw wartime service-and in the hands of the Heard of the gun? I can justify my position by simply mentioning a few Reader interest" when some readers, I'm sure, have never even How can I dare consider the Hungarian 37 to be of "general Report," the Hungarian 37M auto pistol, suggested by reader Charles From which process comes this month's "Classic Test They have any potential at all for general reader interest, I'mĪlways eager to sound them out on G&A's editor, Howard E.įrench. These suggestions are, of course, invaluable to me, and if Usually a classic firearm in which the correspondent has particular Readers who write to tell me they don't care for it.Įvery so often a letter arrives which suggests a new writing topic, Writes to tell me he likes my stuff-which helps to compensate for any Sight unseen (I can't, of course, and hence can speak only in the Once in a while, I'm asked to evaluate an arm There's wealth of historical data out there that appears in no #FEMARU M 37 SERIAL NUMBER DATING SERIES#Recently covered in the Classic Test Report series (and believe me, Some offer supplementary information regarding an arm I've Letters I receive are just plain interesting. Some folks out there do read me after all, but also because most of the "the bag," not only because it indicates that, yes indeed, "monthly mail bag." In it are various letters which have been Pennsylvania home a manila envelope I've come to term the Retrieved from Įvery four weeks or so, there comes from Los Angeles to my
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