Black Widow Tack Driver

[Thor]

Typically a 41 or a 42 dated chamber Mauser toggle code byf with black plastic grips (on about 20% of them) This was simply a marketing tactic employed and the phase was coined by Ralph Shattuck (he tells me) It really worked. These guns have a black salt blued finish, black grips, and all blued (black color) small parts (trigger, safety lever, take down lever. Some of the 1940 vintage (a very few) and 41/42 Lugers had them also! But primiarly the byfs with black grips are a "Black Widow" This was an American invention and had German basis at all! German collectors say "Huh?" sometimes whne you mention the term! Thor