Very very early Borchardt pistol

unspellable · 08-05-2002, 09:23 PM

If you go to the Winchester Museum in Cody, Wyoming, you can see on display a couple of early Borchardt pistols from the days when he worked for Winchester. They have six shot capacity magazines (revolving). The apocryphal story is that Winchester and S&W had a gentlemen's agreement to the effect that Winchester would stay out of the revolver business and S&W would stay out of the rifle business. Seems like Borchardt was not the luckiest guy around when it came to promoting his designs. He arrived at Sharps in time to see them go belly up.

John Sabato · 08-07-2002, 02:28 PM

Can anyone post photos of these early Borchardt pistols for those of us not fortunate enough to have visited Cody, WY ??

08-05-2002, 09:23 PM	#1
unspellable User Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: Iowa Posts: 768 Thanks: 0 Thanked 19 Times in 11 Posts	Very very early Borchardt pistol If you go to the Winchester Museum in Cody, Wyoming, you can see on display a couple of early Borchardt pistols from the days when he worked for Winchester. They have six shot capacity magazines (revolving). The apocryphal story is that Winchester and S&W had a gentlemen's agreement to the effect that Winchester would stay out of the revolver business and S&W would stay out of the rifle business. Seems like Borchardt was not the luckiest guy around when it came to promoting his designs. He arrived at Sharps in time to see them go belly up.

08-07-2002, 02:28 PM	#2
John Sabato Lifer Lifetime Forum Patron Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: The Capital of the Free World Posts: 10,154 Thanks: 3,003 Thanked 2,306 Times in 1,097 Posts	Can anyone post photos of these early Borchardt pistols for those of us not fortunate enough to have visited Cody, WY ?? __________________ regards, -John S "...We hold these truths to be self-evident that ALL men are created EQUAL *and are endowed by their Creator* with certain UNALIENABLE* rights, and among these are life, LIBERTY, and the pursuit of happiness..."*