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Landstad 1900: A True Semiautomatic Revolver (Ad-free)
🕑 Added 2024-07-03 12:00:02 +0000 UTCThe Landstad Model 1900 is a magazine-fed, semiautomatic revolver designed by Norwegian Halvard Folkestad Landstad, who lived in Kristiana (now called Oslo). He designed the gun on his own dime, and presented it to military trials in 1901, which it failed miserably. The gun has a six-round detachable box magazine of 7.5mm Nagant cartridges, a two-chamber cylinder, and a simple blowback action. Its firing cycle is to chamber a round from the magazine into the bottom cylinder chamber by manually cycling the action. The trigger is a long double-action type which rotates the cylinder 180 degrees so the cartridge is in line with the barrel and releases the striker to fire the round. Upon firing, the bolt cycles open, extracting and ejecting the empty case, rechecking the striker, and chambering a new round from the magazine into the bottom of the cylinder.
The purpose of this overly complex system was to provide a semiauto action which did not ever leave a live cartridge under the striker, in the name of safety. Only one example was made, and its bolt broke after just 5 or 6 rounds fired. It was repaired almost immediately, but the Norwegian military had was not interested in further development, and nothing more came of the program. A few years later in 1908 Norway would institute a more serious semiauto pistol trials program which led to adoption of the Kongsberg 1914 (a slightly modified Colt 1911).
Thanks to Jan for allowing me to disassemble and film this one-of-a-kind piece for you!
Comments
Christian D. Orr
Fascinating stuff, thanks Ian!
Christian D. Orr
Exactly; live and learn!
Robert Beattie
Thanks for showing us a truly "forgotten", if ever known, weapon.
Ed McEneney
Wow thank you Ian and Jann(sp) for sharing this amazing pistol.
Patrick Moran
Please tell me you did not figure by yourself how to disassemble this piece, but either was coached by someone familiar or literature.
Phillip André Frontéri
Nice video👍 hope you will return to Norway once more. We got a lot of nice firearms in Kongsberg if you havent already got to them👍😁
Jason
An amazingly functional rube goldberg-type gun.
Minion
That hinged hand...
Guido Schriewer
sounds VERY safe. that sure is the weirdest oddball magazin I've ever seen on a handgun. take down it gets only weirder.
Beccaskye
It would be easy to make fun of this pistol. BUT when no one knows what is the best way to do something, trial and error is what works.!
Glenn Miller
What an amazing unicorn of a pistol. I wouldn't have the guts to disassemble a one-of-a-kind a firearm, but then again, I'm not Gun Jesus. Thanks for the video and thanks to Jan!
